Our Interventions
GWP translates commitments into action by driving water investments and governance reforms that build climate resilience, advance sustainable development, and strengthen cooperation across sectors and borders. It does so in partnership with countries, regions, and communities, delivering long-term impact. Featured themes:
Climate resilience through water
GWP mobilises stakeholders at global, continental, regional, national, sub-national levels to scale up resilience-building investments in water management infrastructure, institutions and governance, and information systems, including for flood and drought risk reduction.
Flagship initiatives:
Continental Africa Water Investment Programme (AIP): https://aipwater.org/GCF Readiness: enabling resilience investments: https://www.gwp.org/en/gwp-and-gcf-readiness/More on GWP’s climate resilience through water work: https://www.gwp.org/en/we-act/themesprogrammes/Climate-Resilience/
Water solutions for the SDGs
GWP assists countries and regions to identify challenges in their water management frameworks, through SDG monitoring, to turn those challenges into bankable opportunities, and to access the means of support to scale up achievement of their water-related SDGs.
Flagship initiatives:
IWRM SDG 6 Support Programme: https://www.gwp.org/en/sdg6support/
Climate resilience through water
GWP works at the transboundary level to enhance cooperation and reduce conflict over shared water resources. Its approach includes multi-stakeholder dialogues to build consensus on transboundary challenges, identify priority actions, and support institutional arrangements for sustainable cooperation.
Learn more:
GWP’s Annual Report 2023: https://www.gwp.org/annualreport2023/impact/
Engaging the private sector
GWP uses global water and climate frameworks as entry points to engage the private and the public sectors in dialogue to understand and quantify shared water-related risks, turning the risks into opportunities for collective action that matches private objectives with the public sector’s greatest water and climate investment needs.
Learn more:
GWP’s Annual Report 2023: https://www.gwp.org/annualreport2023/impact/
Contributing to gender equality
GWP promotes gender equality in an integrated manner across its work, through four entry points: Institutional leadership and commitment; Gender inclusion and analysis that drives change; Meaningful and inclusive participation in decision making and partnerships; and Equal access to and control of resources.
Flagship initiative:
Water, Climate, Development, and Gender Investments: https://aipwater.org/wacdep-g/Community of Practice: Gender and Water Resources Management: https://iwrmactionhub.org/group/genderirwm/about
Youth engagement
GWP promotes meaningful opportunities at all levels to advance youth engagement in water management, empowering youth as agents of change, facilitating innovative and fresh approaches to address today’s and tomorrow’s water challenges.
Learn more:
GWP’s Annual Report 2023: https://www.gwp.org/annualreport2023/impact/