Projects

Global Public Policy Network (GPPN)

The Swedish Water House supports the Global Public Policy Network on Water Management (GPPN), a joint partnership of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future and Stockholm International Water Institute. The GPPN works with global stakeholders to identify key priorities for the international water and sanitation agenda and communicate those priorities to decision-makers. The GPPN works specifically to promote progressive and informed policy on water and sanitation, and identify international and intergovernmental fora where stakeholders can leverage change.

The GPPN is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU), and is supported by a Steering Committee including UN Water, WWF, UNEP-DHI and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

http://gppn.stakeholderforum.org/

This year the GPPN works to identify key messages on water for two international policy meetings:

• 17th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-17)
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, 15th Conference of Parties (COP-15)

Water and Corporate Responsibility

Every company is in some way dependent on water resources for its activities and therefore an increasing number of companies start to explore how they can take responsibility for a sustainable water use.

The Swedish Water House has formed a reference group for Water and Corporate Responsibility. The group gives input to SWH’s/SIWI’s representative in the Swedish committee for creating an ISO-standard for global water footprint. It discusses different aspects of measuring companies’ water use and water impacts, as well as how different tools for measurement could be harmonized in order to give comparable data.

Within the topic of Water and Corporate Responsibility, the Swedish Water House also wants to strengthen the connections between Swedish companies and international organizations working on the issue. Further, SWH desires to contribute in creating meeting places for Swedish companies who would like to cooperate with other actors about the issue of water use and water impacts.

Do you work with this kind of issues and would like to join the reference group for Water and Corporate Responsibility? Contact Johanna Sjödin, johanna.sjodin@swedishwaterhouse.se

Northern Water Network

Swedish Water House is a partner in the Northern Water Network.

This Network, originally initiated by the World Water Council (WWC) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP) during the 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto in 2003, has as a focus to share experience on the development and implementation of IWRM among the Northern partners.

The North too has its problems and exchanging knowledge will help to solve these problems. The Northern Water Network will provide the window through which actors can engage in dialogue and knowledge sharing. Although the Northern Water Network will have a strong north-north orientation, the south should have easy access to the northern experiences, both good and bad. For further information on the partners within the network, please look at the respective national home pages or go to the Norhtern Water Network website below.

www.danishwaterforum.dk
www.waterforum.jp
www.nwp.nl
www.gwpaustralia.org
www.gwpforum.org
www.worldwatercouncil.org
www.astee.org

Northern Water Network website

Support to the EU Water Initiative

Swedish Water House has provided support to the EU Water Initiative since 2003. It currently supports the annual Multistakeholder Forum process of the EU Water Initiative at the World Water Week in Stockholm. At this occasion, the Swedish Water House also supports other, more operational meetings of the Initiative and also the EU Water Facility.

EU Water Initiative