Achieving water security and climate resilience at scale requires stronger collaboration between governments, communities, development partners, and the private sector. As water risks increasingly affect economies, supply chains, energy systems, food production, and human well-being, the private sector has a critical role to play in accelerating investment, innovation, and action for water security.
Building on its experience as a neutral and trusted convener, GWP works to strengthen engagement with the private sector across the implementation of the GWP Strategy 2026–2030 and the Global Transformation Agenda on Water Investments. This work contributes to advancing climate-resilient water investments, strengthening water governance, and supporting integrated approaches to water management.
Private sector actors influence water availability, quality, and resilience in multiple ways — as water users, investors, infrastructure developers, technology providers, financiers, insurers, and supply chain actors. At the same time, businesses are increasingly exposed to growing water-related risks, including droughts, floods, pollution, ecosystem degradation, and climate impacts.
Through its convening power and global network, GWP supports collaboration between the public and private sectors to help unlock sustainable and inclusive water solutions. This includes promoting enabling environments for investment, strengthening governance and institutional coordination, and supporting integrated water resources management (IWRM) approaches at regional, national, and basin levels.
Under the Strategy 2026–2030, GWP works to mobilise partnerships and investments that contribute to climate-resilient development, sustainable economic growth, and water security for communities and ecosystems alike.
Strategically, GWP will:
- Focus on sectors where water security is critical for economic resilience and sustainable development.
- Support enabling environments that help mobilise climate-resilient water investments.
- Convene governments, financiers, businesses, and development partners around shared water challenges and solutions.
- Promote integrated approaches to water management at regional, national, and transboundary levels.
- Focus on systemic and basin-level challenges where GWP’s convening role and technical expertise can deliver long-term impact.