GWP Central and Eastern Europe

Vision and mission

• The Global Water Partnership's vision is for a water secure world

• Its mission is to support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels

The region of Central and Eastern Europe

The region of Central and Eastern Europe

• Population of 152 million people, a quarter of all Europeans

• Total area of over 2.03 million km2 • 12 countries in Baltic and Danube regions• Baltic region: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland • Danube region: Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech

Republic, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine

• Founded in 1998

GWP CEE Strategy 2009-2013

• Tool for facilitating implementation of IWRM principles in the context of European water polices

• Four strategic goals covering IWRM dialogues, public participation, sustainable sanitation, floods and droughts, communication and governance

• Involves inter-regional cooperation with the GWP Central Asia and Caucasus region

• Regularly updated with emerging issues such as climate adaptation

Strategic Goal 1: National Dialogues

• Regional Water Vision up to 2025 was a result of first dialogues From Vision to Action presented at the Hague World Water Forum in 2000

• National and regional dialogues are synthesized into regional reports

• A series of IWRM Dialogues in 2007 resulted in common declarations with governments and changes in legislation

• As a result, GWP Ukraine succeeded in embedding IWRM in National Environmental Strategy

Strategic Goal 1: Public Participation

• Aarhus Convention provides a legal framework for access to information and justice

• Public Participation Task Force established in 2004 • Organized Danube Day celebrations at Water &

Sustainable Development Expo in Zaragoza (2008), co-organized Danube Stakeholder Forum (2009) and regional input to Danube Strategy in (2010)

• Observer status to the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River and the Helsinki Commission

Strategic Goal 2: Sustainable Sanitation

• Seeks alternative and decentralized solution to sanitation services for rural population

• Sustainable Sanitation in CEE: Addressing the Needs of Small and Medium-Size Settlements published in 2007 and translated into 12 languages

• 20 million Europeans, mostly in new member states, are lacking access to sanitation services

• Advocates for sustainable sanitation at various forums and contributes to drafting Equitable Access to Water and Sanitation to be launched at the 6th World Water Forum

Strategic Goal 2: Floods and Droughts

• In cooperation with World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Guidance on Flash Flood Management was published in 2007

• GWP CEE participates in development of a new WMO Integrated Drought Management Programme

Strategic Goal 3: Communication and ToolBox

• Publications, social media and extended web-based activities including GWP ToolBox

• The ToolBox is a free and open database with a library of IWRM case studies and references

Strategic Goal 4: Network governance

• Network governance and fundraising targeting programs of UN organizations, European Union, international river basin commissions, national Official Development Assistance and a private sector

Governance

• Consulting Partners: more than 140 member organizations in 12 CEE countries

• Country Water Partnerships: actively support the development of national policies

• Regional Council: highest decision making body of GWP CEE

• Secretariat: hosted by Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute

• GWP Network: GWP CEE is a part of Global Water Partnership network

GWP Global Network

• Founded in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)

• The network is open to all organisations involved in water resources management

• GWP’s international network comprises 13 Regional Water Partnerships, over 74 Country Water Partnerships, and more than 2,350 Partners located in 154 countries

• The secretariat is based in Stockholm, Sweden • The network is supported financially by Canada, Denmark, the

European Commission, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States

Contact information

• GWP CEE www.gwpceeforum.org • Global Water Partnership www.gwp.org • GWP ToolBox www.gwptoolbox.org • How to become a partner? www.gwp.org/en/Get-

involved/Become-a-Partner/Apply-Now/

GWP CEE social media

• Flickr: foto database of GWP CEE www.flickr.com/gwpcee

• Twitter: www.twitter.com/GWPCEE • Slideshare: slide and document sharing

www.slideshare.net/gwpceewaterpartnership • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-

Water-Partnership-Central-and-Eastern-Europe/102043026503115

Regional Secretariat

GWP CEEc/o Slovak Hydrometeorological InstituteJeseniova 17, 833 15 Bratislava, SlovakiaTel: +421 2 5941 5224Fax: +421 2 5941 5273E-mail: gwpcee@shmu.sk

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