FEATURE
Water governance change through learning
We work with stakeholders to turn learning into ongoing improvements in water management.
GWP annual Network meeting 2019
GWP’s capacity-building activities are generally designed to support specific governance and financing processes, ensuring activities are demand-driven and provide maximum benefit for participants. This work involves supporting countries in their efforts to achieve a more integrated approach to water resources management, as measured by the SDG 6.5 indicators. Delivering training with and through partners like Cap-Net is a key aspect of this work (see page 2); other examples are illustrated in the regional stories and on pages 13–14.
GWP Technical Committee The GWP Technical Committee provides strategic guidance to the Network on a range of knowledge issues, translating innovations and advances in integrated water resources management for use by the Network. An increasing part of its work is to surface the intrinsic knowledge available from GWP’s ‘bottom-up’ water management experiences. In 2019, the Technical Committee (TEC) published a Perspectives Paper on Sharing Water, which examines the role of robust water-sharing arrangements in integrated water resources management. TEC provided valuable input to GWP’s new strategy, which outlines new directions for the Committee, including engaging selectively in research programmes to deepen a shared understanding of the conditions leading to successful water resources management. It will move from a primary focus on written analytical products to additionally sharing experiences and innovations in implementing water management. While fewer, the subjects of TEC papers are focused more strategically
on the needs of the GWP Network. TEC members will play new roles in quality assurance for GWP knowledge products, increase technical mentoring within the GWP Network, and offer coaching to global and regional teams. TEC members played a key role in designing the Water Changemaker Awards, a new initiative launched in early 2020 to highlight the teams and organisations that shape water decisions on climate resilience. They will continue to advise on the criteria for choosing winners, and develop a new ‘signature publication’ designed to identify emerging integrated water resources management experiences. The narratives collected will also form part of the core input for the revitalised GWP Toolbox, for which TEC provides quality control.
GWP publications 2019 In 2019, GWP produced more than 60 publications. At the global level, GWP co-authored the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre Technical Report on Drought Risk Assessment and Management, produced Addressing Water in National Adaptation Plans: Water Supplement to the UNFCCC NAP Technical Guidelines, as well as Mobilising Change Makers: 10 Stories of Impact, a collection of case studies from the Water and Climate Programme. Peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange is a growing area for GWP. In 2019, the mixture of activities included hosting exchanges among institutions with similar responsibilities, as in the visit of a delegation of riparian actors from the transboundary
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