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The Global Water Partnership (GWP) is an international network created to foster an integrated approach to water resources management (IWRM). Its vision is for a water secure world. GWP offers practical advice for sustainably managing water resources.〔Falkenmark, Malin and Folke, Carl (September 2000) "How to Bring Ecological Services into Integrated Water Resources Management" ''Ambio'' 29(6): pp. 351-352, page 351. The article synopsizes the November 1999 seminar held at the Beijer Institute by the Stockholm University Centre for Research on Natural Resources and the Environment to identify fundamental gaps in the activities and planning of the Global Water Partnership.〕 It operates as a network, open to all organisations, including government institutions, agencies of the United Nations, bi- and multi-lateral development banks, professional associations, research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and the private sector.〔Reinicke, Wolfgang H. (1999) "The Other World Wide Web: Global Public Policy Networks" ''Foreign Policy'' No. 117 pp. 44-57, page 47〕 ==History== GWP grew out of decades of dissatisfaction with water management 〔Gleick, Peter H. (August 1998) "Water in Crisis: Paths to Sustainable Water Use" ''Ecological Applications'' 8(3): pp. 571-579, page 572〕 practices and a consensus that a more sustainable approach was needed. Several large international conferences and agreements had particular influence over its formation: * The 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Environment * The 1977 Mar del Plata Conference, * The 1992 Dublin Conference held in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro the same year. One outcome of the Dublin Conference were the ‘Dublin Principles’ that today are the founding pillars of IWRM. * Agenda 21 that came out of the UNECD formally integrated the Dublin principles in Chapter 18: Protection of the Quality & Supply of Freshwater Resources: Application of Integrated Approaches to the Development, Management & Use of Water Resources".〔()〕 The GWP was founded in 1996 with the support of the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).〔Reinicke, Wolfgang H. (1999) "The Other World Wide Web: Global Public Policy Networks" ''Foreign Policy'' No. 117 pp. 44-57, page 53〕 Initially functioning as a unit of Sida, GWP became an intergovernmental organisation under international law known as the Global Water Partnership Organisation (GWPO) in 2002. The Secretariat is based in Stockholm, Sweden. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Global Water Partnership」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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