1. Country Water Partnerships (CWP):
Experience from GWP / WA
Dam MOGBANTE
Regional Coordinator
GWP-WAf

2. Country Water Partnerships
(CWP)
Basic requirements include :
• A new Country Water
Partnership should only be
established if it has an
expectation to be able to secure
its financial self-sustainability in
a reasonable period after its
initial launch.
• A CWP should not be
dependent on funding from
either the GWPO or RWP.
 But experience shows that
these do not work most of the
time!

3. Country Water Partnerships
(CWP)
Basic requirements include
also:
To follow the main values for
GWP:
– inclusiveness,
– openness,
– transparency,
– tolerance,
– equity and
– solidarity.
– Gender sensitive
 And these are key
challenges !

4. Rational
• The CWP is seen as the GWP registred partners network at
country level,
• Guided by the GWP texts, including the Conditions for
Accreditation
• Set up through a participatory approach, step by step and on
consensus building :
– Identification of the relevant/key stakeholders that adhere to
GWP principles
– Information and sensitisation of identified stakeholders
– Consultative meeting among stakeholders
– Small working group to follow the process
– Feasibility study for the partnership creation (National context
relevance and niches)
– constitutive and launching meeting of the partnership

5. Key features
• The CWP has it own Statutes, Rules and Regulations, and
Organs: General Assembly of Partners, Steering Committee and
Technical and Scientific Committee
• Membership open and all inclusive with "Cross and inter
sectoral stakeholders”
• Legal status: Almost all the CWPs are registered as a
national NGO or Association
• Important principle : Host Institution for financial and
administrative Backing
• Small permanent secretariat (Not easy to run)
• Adapted to the conditions of the country structure

6. • Expansion of CWPs (13 out of the 15 ECOWAS countries )
However, the performance of CWPs is still uneven
Usually a need for support:
• Financial & technical support (core funding) to CWPs and team
building workshops
• Training & technical support to member organisations
CWP in West Africa
Benin : 2001 Côte d’Ivoire: Jan. 2006
Burkina Faso : Feb. 2002 Cape Verde : May 2006
Senegal : Nov. 2002 Guinea: Oct. 2006
Nigeria : Dec. 2002 Togo : Nov. 2006
Ghana : Dec. 2002 Bissau Guinea: May 2009
Mali: April 2003 Gambia: Dec, 2011
Niger : March 2005

7. Conclusion
• CWPs are Key for GWP operation at country level;
• CWP a key element in the GWP Knowledge Chain.
But Most of CWPs still weak and need to be
supported Clearly with.
• Minimum Secretariat equiped with running cost 
direct budget for core needs.
• Capacity building to relay appropriately messages
and actions of GWP in the country.
• Strong involvement in the projects preparation and
implementation.

8. Thank you!