The document summarizes the activities and accomplishments of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) network in 2012. Some key points: - GWP regional networks strengthened capacity for integrated water resources management in countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. This included advancing IWRM planning, supporting water reforms, and training over 5,000 stakeholders. - GWP engaged journalists and media to raise awareness of water and climate change issues in several countries and regions. - GWP coordinated inputs to UN processes from over 2700 partners in over 100 countries, including on water and climate change for the UNFCCC and on IWRM for the Rio+20 conference. - GWP's headquarters

1. GWP in Action 2012
Dr Ania Grobicki, Executive Secretary
Network Meeting
1 September 2013
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GWP Central Africa
• Capacity of NGOs to interact with government strengthened in
Central African Republic (Goal 1)
• Journalists' role in water and climate change enhanced in Cameroon,
new journalists´ network formed (Goal 2)
133 Partners, 7 countries

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GWP Mediterranean
• IWRM planning advanced in Jordan,
Lebanon and Tunisia (Goal 1)
• Knowledge exchange reinforced on
transboundary water resources
management, incl. Medjerda River
(Goal 3)
77 Partners, 20 countries

4. 4
GWP Central America
• Water reforms supported in El Salvador, Water Act 2013 (Goal 1)
• Guidance document developed for basin management in Nicaragua in
a highly participatory process (Goal 1) 175 Partners, 7 countries

5. 5
GWP Caribbean
• National IWRM policy resurfaces in Grenada (Goal 1)
• GWP Caribbean Journalists‘ Network engages those outside the
'water box‘ through Media Awards (Goal 3)
75 Partners, 21 countries

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GWP South America
• New institutioni for the Chancay-
Lambayeque basin in Peru (Goal 1)
• Supporting the Water Sustainability
Summit held in 5 cities in Chile (Goal 2)
282 Partners, 10 countries

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GWP West Africa
• A successful partnership for
implementing IWRM in West
Africa with UNEP (Goal 1)
• Groundwater management
put on the ECOWAS regional
agenda in West Africa (Goal 1)
240 Partners, 15 countries

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GWP Southern Africa
• Water supply and
sanitation improved in
schools in Botswana
through rainwater
harvesting (Goal 1)
• Funds leveraged in new
donor environment in
southern Africa (Goal 4)
296 Partners, 12 countries

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GWP Central and Eastern Europe
•Water planning capacity of five local authorities improved in
Moldova (Goal 1)
•Support to the Sava Commission (with GWP Med) (Goal 1)
142 Partners, 12 countries

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GWP Central Asia and Caucasus
• IWRM approach applied in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
with training for 5,000 stakeholders (Goal 1)
• Urban wastewater used for agriculture in Armenia (Goal 2)
149 Partners, 8 countries

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GWP China
• Policy needs for IWRM identified in China
• Evaluating IWRM in the Yellow River Basin
(Goal 1)
100 Partners

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GWP Southeast Asia
• Capacity for risk monitoring
of Thailand's river basins
strengthened (Goal 1)
• First step taken towards
water cooperation in
Myanmar , with media
coverage (Goal 3)
248 Partners, 10 countries

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GWP South Asia
• Water management problem on
the Nilwala River solved by
stakeholders in Sri Lanka (Goal 2)
• Knowledge shared to improve
climate resilience in South Asia
(Goal 3)
502 Partners, 7 countries

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GWP Eastern Africa
• Stakeholders committed
to climate resilience of
transboundary
catchment (Goal 2)
• Water declaration by
'future leaders' adopted
at youth conference
(Goal 3)
187 Partners, 9 countries

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GWP Global
• GWPO hosts a preparatory workshop on water and climate
change for the UNFCCC's SBSTA in March 2012 (Goal 2)
• GWP coordinates country responses to UN Water status report on
IWRM, for Rio+20 in June 2012(Goal 4)
164 Partners from 28 countries outside existing GWP Regions
Total Partners increased from 2585 to 2792

16. 16
GWPO Signs New Headquarters Agreement with
Government of Sweden, 5 March 2012
Signed into Swedish Law by the Riksdag, 1 July 2012

17. 17
World Water Forum in Marseille, 12-17 March 2012
Launch of OECD report
on water reform

18. 18
New Handbook for Integrated Water
Resources Management in the Basins of
Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Aquifers

19. 19
Launch of WACDEP
Framework at
Africa Water Week,
Cairo, Egypt, May 2012

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GWP at Rio+20

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Launch of WACDEP publications by AMCOW President
at Stockholm World Water Week, August 2012

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President of Mongolia visits GWPO, 10 October 2012

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Next GWP Chair, Ursula Schaefer-Preuss, Appointed
by GWPO Sponsoring Partners, 28 August 2012