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GWSP 2024 Annual Report

Over the past seven years, GWSP has built a robust framework for advancing water management through extensive knowledge development, data, and implementation tools. In Fiscal Year 2024, the Partnership made significant contributions to water security initiatives, with a focus on climate adaptation, financial viability, and gender equity in the water sector.

Drought Risk and Resilience Assessment Methodology

Å·ÃÀÈÕb´óƬ¡¯s Drought Risk and Resilience Assessment Methodology (DRRA) is a framework for action that can help governments proactively address drought risks. Drawing on international best practice in drought management, it outlines practical measures to build resilience at every stage of the drought cycle.

Water for Shared Prosperity

The report highlights the global inequalities in water access and recommends pro-poor and inclusive interventions to improve water security and strengthen climate resilience while reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity.

Funding a Water Secure Future

The report quantifies for the first time how much governments spend on water and the size of the financing and funding gaps that must close to meet people's needs.

Partnerships are the bedrock of a water-secure future. They provide opportunities and a framework for sharing knowledge, mobilizing funding, and providing technical assistance.

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: Groundwater in Times of Climate Change

Groundwater is our most important freshwater resource, but the lack of systematic analysis of its economic importance has evaded attention from policymakers and the general public¨Cthreatening the resource. The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Economics of Groundwater in Times of Climate Change report offers new data and evidence that advances understanding of the value of groundwater, the costs of mismanagement, and the opportunities to leverage its potential.

A comprehensive report on how GWSP advances results in water and sanitation.

Water Security and Fragility: Insights from South Sudan

How can fragile countries like South Sudan better harness water¡¯s potential to sustain development and stability? A new World Bank report ¡°Rising from the Depths: Water Security and Fragility in South Sudan¡± highlights five priorities that could make a difference.

What the Future Has in Store: A New Paradigm for Water Storage

What the Future Has in Store: A New Paradigm for Water Storage is an urgent appeal to practitioners at every level, both public and private, and across sectors, to come together to champion integrated water storage solutions¡ªnatural, built, and hybrid¡ªto meet a range of human, economic, and environmental needs for the twenty-first century.

East Asia and the Pacific is a highly diverse region. It ranges from the world¡¯s most populous country, China, to the small Pacific Island states. There is similar breadth in the challenges for the water sector. Rapid population growth, urbanization, and economic development are increasing demand for water as supply is becoming less reliable.

Seeing the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality

Seeing the Invisible, and its companion, A Practical Manual on Groundwater Quality Monitoring, not only provide a detailed description of the types and nature of contaminants in groundwater, but also the tools and resources for their measurement and long-term monitoring, and techniques to protect the resource from being contaminated in the first place.

Water Security in Senegal: Challenges and Recommendations

Water security is the bedrock of Senegal¡¯s development and key to its socio-economic development goals. Deteriorating water resources and an inadequate institutional framework, however, are threatening both the country¡¯s water security and economic growth.

Water in Circular Economy and Resilience (WICER)

The Water in Circular Economy and Resilience (WICER) report presents a paradigm shift from linear thinking in the way we plan, design, and operate water infrastructure in urban settings towards a circular and resilience approach.

Ebb and Flow: Water, Migration, and Development

The Ebb and Flow: Water, Migration, and Development explores the link between water and migration, and the implications for economic development.

Innovative Governance for Flood and Drought Risk Management

An EPIC Response Framework shows how national governments can holistically manage floods and droughts: There are twelve fundamental building blocks to an EPIC Response, as explained in the report.