Projects

The Water and Climate Coalition 

The Water and Climate Coalition is a multi-stakeholder coalition of partners seeking to place water resources management at the heart of climate change policy. The Water and Climate Coalition evolved from the Global Public Policy Network on Water Management, an initiative of Stakeholder Forum and Stockholm International Water Institute that was originally conceived to help global stakeholders prepare for the review of water and sanitation commitments at the 16th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development. It conducted consultations across stakeholder groups to develop key policy recommendations and identify challenges for the global water and sanitation agenda.

The coalition operates at a global and intergovernmental level in UN-related processes to integrate water and climate policy and engages with the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The Secretariat of the Water and Climate Coalition is run by Stakeholder Forum and Stockholm International Water Institute. Project contact: karin.lexen@siwi.org

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

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.  

Support to the Svenska-IHP

International Hydrological Programme (IHP) is UNESCO's international scientific cooperative programme in water research, water resources management, education and capacity-building. Swedish Water House is member of the swedish IHP(Svenska-IHP)'s committee. Information is only available in Swedish. 

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 Northern Water Network website.
www.danishwaterforum.dk
www.waterforum.jp
www.nwp.nl
www.gwpaustralia.org
www.gwpforum.org
www.worldwatercouncil.org
www.astee.org