The Global Public Policy Network on Water Management (GPPN) is 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.
‘Up to and Beyond 2015’ is the framework within which the GPPN operates. The Millennium Development Goals commit to halving the number of people without access to water and sanitation by 2015: the GPPN brings together stakeholders on a range of issues that require attention in order to sustainably achieve these goals. In doing this it will also identify priorities for any post-2015 MDG framework.
To find out more about the activities of the GPPN and how you can get involved, please click here.
To find out more about the background, aims and objectives of the GPPN, please click here.
GPPN Side Event Webcast: Water and Climate Change Adaptation
June 2009: The GPPN side event on 'Bridging the Water and Climate Agendas', held on 9th June during the Climate Change Talks in Bonn, was selected for webcast by the UNFCCC Secretariat.
Tune in..
The GPPN contributed to and faciliated a number of radio programmes focussing on water issues at the 17th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, as part of Stakeholder Forum's 'Live at the CSD' radio project. You can listen to the programmes below:
Earth Talk, Episode 6
At the 17th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, the Global Public Policy Network was co-ordinating advocacy around water as a cross-cutting issue. Here Armando Canchanya checks in with Hannah Stoddart from the GPPN Secretariat, and Lesha Witmer from the Women for Water Partnership to discuss why water underpins all the other themes under discussion.
Greentables Episode 4: Watering down the issues?
Water, consumption, international law and human rights are under discussion during this Greentable, where Hannah Stoddart is joined by environmental lawyer Randy Christensen from Canadian NGO Ecojustice, Danish Sustainable Development Ambassador Aagaard Andersen, and Olcay Ünver, Coordinator of the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme. Discussions focus on water's role for sustainable development, how to manage water scarcity, and how the human right to water interacts with water as an economic good.