Accelerating Partnerships for Water Management Decision making
Impediments in basins cooperative processes result from or drive lack of agreement on water management. It is possible that a reluctance to solve problems emerges as a response to an ineffective implementation of a previous agreements or to shifting national and regional contexts. The Shared Water Facility supports existing successful approaches and where needed develop formal and informal relationships, institutional support, and inter-governmental dialogue through:
- 1Assessment: Technical advice and interactive processes that provide science-based data, research and analysis that support stakeholder exchanges and negotiations.
- 2Support services: Collaboration on tools, methodologies and data to assist coordination of shared water initiatives through training, data sharing and development of joint initiatives as projects.
- 3Knowledge management: Collection of evidence of the benefits of strategic collaboration and peaceful prosperity.
- 4Convening: Organisation of roundtables among States, the donor community, intergovernmnetal organisations, private sector and partners to develop strategies for inclusive and long-term transboundary water cooperation.
Our purpose
Our Story
Established in October 2020, the Shared Waters Cooperation Facility is led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Oregon State University (OSU) and funded by the US Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES).
Our mission
We are a global partnership determined to strengthen cooperation on shared waters; we support stakeholders in navigating and negotiating agreements over water resources.
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