Partners for Water and Sanitation (PAWS) Initiative

Les PeacockDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

The PAWS Initiative

• The partnership consists of Government Departments, Private Sector Companies, and Civil Society Organisations.

• Registered as a Type II partnership at the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Partner Organisations

• Babtie Group• Biwater • Bristol Water• British Water • Building Partnerships for Development (BPD)• Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental

Management (CIWEM)• Department for Environment, Food and Rural

Affairs (Defra)• Department for International Development (DfID)• Folkestone and Dover Water• Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)• Game6• Halcrow Group Ltd.• Halliburton• Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE)• Intermediate Technology Development Group

(ITDG)• International Water Association (IWA)

• Kelda Group • Midkent Water• Nicholson Graham and Jones • Northumbrian Water• Parkman Group• Severn Trent Water

International• Southern Water• South East Water • South Staffordshire Water• South West Water• Tearfund• Thames Water• UNISON• Wateraid• Water UK • WS Atkins • WTI Training Group• WWF-UK

PAWS in South Africa

Managing Organisational Change

Seminars

Seminar on Managing Organisational

ChangePresented by Partners for Water

and Sanitation

Featuring UK speakers from Thames Water, Severn Trent Water International,

UNISON, and Northumbrian Water

Monday 27th October 2003 starting at 09.00

 

Gariki River, Enugu,

NIGERIA

Partnership Guiding Principles

THE PARTNERSHIP: • is guided by principles of openness, honesty, mutual respect and transparency

in working together and with partner countries • is committed to the involvement of all stakeholders in partner countries

particularly in the communities in which the partnership is engaged• works alongside existing water and sanitation initiatives and aims to

complement existing activity• recognises the importance of working within national and municipal

programmes and frameworks

 THE PARTNERS: 

• have a belief in the value and benefits of corporate social responsibility • acknowledge the contributions and value of private sector and civil society

engagement with government • are committed to the Millennium Development Goal on Water and to the

adoption of a similar target for sanitation • recognise the value and importance of capacity building particularly for

sustainability and replicability of water and sanitation projects• will work together in an open, honest and transparent manner