This document summarizes the work and outcomes of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) in 2013 across various regions: - GWP supported regional strategies in Central Africa, the Mediterranean, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, West Africa, Southern Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Eastern Africa. - Key outcomes included adoption of water management plans, establishment of river basin organizations, revisions to water laws, and strengthened water governance capacity building. - GWP saw 182 total outcomes since 2009 and continues to advocate for integrating water security and climate resilience into development plans.

1. GWP in Action 2013
Dr Ania Grobicki, Executive Secretary
GWP Network Meeting
Port of Spain, Trinidad
27 June 2014
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• Regional
hydrometeorological
strategy supported by
ECCAS (Goal 1)
154 Partners, 6 countries
GWP Central Africa

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• Improved understanding of
governance and financing for the
Mediterranean water sector, a joint
programme with OECD (Goal 1)
• Demonstrations of non-conventional
water resources management
advanced in Mediterranean islands :
Malta, Cyprus and the Dodecanese
(Goal 2 and Goal 3)
80 Partners, 20 countries
GWP Mediterranean

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GWP Central America
• Costa Rica supported to develop a
water agenda (Goal 1)
• Capacity of local leaders strengthened
in IWRM (Goal 3)
178 Partners, 7 countries

5. 5
GWP Caribbean
• Regional cooperation
advanced in the
Caribbean on climate
change (Goal 2)
• GWP Toolbox used in
university education
(Goal 3)
83 Partners, 22 countries

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• Increased government
awareness in Peru on the need
for cross-sectoral integration
and social inclusion, in the face
of climate change (Goal 2)
291 Partners, 10 countries
GWP South America

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• West Africa regional water policy
action plan approved (Goal 1)
• Local water management
committee established in Burkina
Faso (Goal 1)
248 Partners, 15 countries
GWP West Africa

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• Regional development
challenges tackled through
cooperation framework
(Goal 1)
320 Partners, 12 countries
GWP Southern Africa

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• Wastewater handbook adopted for
university course (”Natural Ways of
Wastewater Treatment”) (Goal 3)
• Water awareness raised through
youth and art (Goal 3)
152 Partners, 12 countries
GWP Central and Eastern Europe

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GWP Central Asia and Caucasus
• State Water Management Programme
adopted in Kazakhstan (Goal 1)
• Mongolia establishes a Country Water
Partnership (Goal 4)
155 Partners, 9 countries

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• Implementation plan approved for integrated
management of the Xiang River Basin (GWP China Hunan)
(Goal 1)
• Regulations on groundwater management under a climate
change scenario drafted in Shaanxi province (Goal 1)
100 Partners
GWP China

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GWP Southeast Asia
• Vietnam water law revised
with GWP input, including
the establishment of river
basin organizations (Goal 1)
249 Partners, 10 countries

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• Improved water, sanitation and
hygiene practices cut diarrhoeal
disease in schools in Bangladesh
(Goal 1)
• Indian States brought closer
together on transboundary river
issues (Assam/Arunchal Pradesh)
(Goal 2)
515 Partners, 7 countries
GWP South Asia

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• Public and political
awareness raised to promote
climate resilience around
Lake Cyohoha in Burundi
(Goal 2)
• GWP Kenya contributed to
knowledge product – the
Water Country Brief (Goal 3)
187 Partners, 9 countries
GWP Eastern Africa

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• Strengthening Institutions for
Transboundary Water Resources
Management in Africa (SITWA)
• (Goal 1)
GWP Pan Africa

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• GWP advocates for a Sustainable Development Goal for water
on the post-2015 agenda
• GWP promotes the integration of water security and climate
resilience in national and regional development plans (NAPs)
192 Partners from 32 countries outside existing GWP Regions
Total Partners increased from 2,770 to 2,904
GWP Global

17. GWP Outcomes to 2013:
• 182 outcomes identified so far in the current Strategy period
• Steady progress during the Strategy and since 1998
• Lower progress in 2013 compared to 2012 :
• gearing-up water and climate and other thematic programmes
• Higher incidence of outcomes within programmatic approach since 1998
• Still very difficult to quantify and attribute benefits and value added
Outcome level governance tools
clustered by GWP ToolBox classification
2013
Strategy
2009 to
2013
Total since
1998
A Enabling Environment 16 55 93
B Institutional Roles and Capacity 9 46 100
C Management Instruments 10 81 128
Total: 54 182 321

18. Analysis of GWP partners by type and
across regions
• 121 new partners in the 12 month period Oct 2012 to Oct 2013
• total: 2844 partner organisations in Oct 2013