The Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership issued its annual report titled, ‘Water’s Edge: Rising to the Challenge of a Changing World,’ which highlights the partnership’s concern with pressing global issues such as drought, conflict, and refugees.
The partnership focuses on five priority areas that strengthen client governments’ ability to achieve the SDGs: sustainability, institutions, financing, inclusion, and resilience.
26 November 2018: The Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP), a multi-donor trust fund administered by the World Bank, marked its first year of operation with the release of its annual report outlining achievements.
The partnership plans to direct US$200 million to investments in achieving the water-related SDGs from 2018-2022. So far it has raised US$118 towards this target, and supported 31 countries. The partnership focuses on five priority areas that strengthen client governments’ ability to achieve the SDGs: sustainability, institutions, financing, inclusion, and resilience.
The world’s 25 million refugees create enormous demands for water and sanitation services.
The GWSP serves as a platform that brings together the knowledge and operations aspects of the Bank’s water-related work, and helps coordinate donor spending. Donors to the partnership include the Governments of Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, and private foundations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
The GWSP report titled, ‘Water’s Edge: Rising to the Challenge of a Changing World,’ highlights the partnership’s concern with pressing global issues such as drought, conflict, and refugees, noting, for example, that the world’s 25 million refugees create “enormous demands” for water and sanitation services and pose risks to the environment.
The GWSP is one of several water-related multi-donor trust funds administered by the World Bank. Other such funds include the 2030 Water Resources Group and regional groups focusing on Central Asia, the Danube, Africa and South Asia. [Publication: Water’s Edge: Rising to the Challenge of a Changing World] [World Bank Press Release] [World Bank Blog Post]