International High-Level Panel on Water Investments for Africa and Global Cooperation Leaders Event: Mobilising Commitments towards the UN 2026 Water Conference, the 2030 SDG Agenda, and the Africa Water Vision 2063
📅 Monday, 21 September 2026
🕑 13:00–14:30 New York time
The Republic of Namibia will convene, with the Republics of Senegal and South Africa, and the African Union Commission, a High-Level Leaders Event on the sidelines of the 81st UN General Assembly. Global Water Partnership Organisation is co-organiser of the event.
The High-Level Leaders Event will set out a vision for accelerating the outcomes of the AU-AIP Water Investment Summit 2025, advance the water-related determinations of the G20 Leaders’ Declaration, scaling AIP globally in collaboration with the United Nations and G20 processes, and prepare for concrete outcomes at the 2026 UN Water Conference.
As Panel Co-Chair, the Republic of Namibia will set out its intent to champion water investment and its vision of positioning Windhoek as a global political, diplomatic and investment hub for water, to build on the gains made at the Summit, the AIP, and towards the 2026 UN Water Conference. In this context, Namibia will set its intent to become a platform for international dialogue, consultation, investment mobilisation, and cooperation on water security, climate resilience, transboundary waters, and peace.
The High-Level Leaders Event will also advance the call, made in the Pact for the Future, whose intergovernmental negotiations were co-facilitated by Namibia and Germany, for stronger multilateral cooperation, accelerated SDG implementation, and reform of the international financial architecture, translating these commitments into action on water through greater mobilisation of public, private, and climate finance.
As co-convenor of the AU-AIP International High-Level Panel on Water Investments for Africa, the Global Water Partnership Organisation will support the African Union Commission and the Republics of Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa in the event.
Please read the event concept note here.