Geneva Water Hub (GWH) Strategy 2023-2035
Location
Various (incl. Middle East, Central Asia, West Africa)
project period
April 2022 – November 2022
client
University of Geneva (Geneva Water Hub)
Services provided
Partner organisation
Project website
Since its establishment in 2014, the Geneva Water Hub (GWH) has been promoting the use of water as an instrument of peace and stability, based on an in-depth analysis of conflict dynamics and the networking of actors who can contribute to global change. Over 2017-2019 in particular, the GWH has consolidated its functions and strengthened its global recognition. It was in particular successful in conceptualizing and launching a strategic road map to support the conclusions of the work of the Global High-Level Panel on Water & Peace and to ensure proper implementation of recommendations considered as particularly critical for the water and peace agenda. Facilitated by Skat Consulting, the design of the forthcoming GWH period innovated by embracing the full peace and security nexus, positioning water as a connector between the sustainable development, the peace sustaining and the humanitarian response agendas.
The Geneva Water Hub (GWH) was established by the Swiss Confederation and the University of Geneva as a research and policy institute for hydro-diplomacy. It initiated and steered the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace and continues to further its offspring such as the Global Observatory on Water and Peace, the Geneva Principles on the Protection of Water Infrastructure, and the Geneva-based Group of Friends for Water and Peace. Across its research, training, policy endeavours, the GWH has ever since remained committed to the agendas of International Geneva: sustainable development, humanitarian aid, and peacebuilding. This commitment was to be taken to the heart of the GWH ProDoc Phase III.
The Skat Consulting experts led the GWH team through a participatory, stepwise stocktaking cum visioning exercise for the development of a multi-donor Program enabling the GWH to effectively prevent water-related conflicts and promote water as an instrument of peace and cooperation over the period of 2020-2025, and further grow as the competence centre for hydro politics towards peace and security.
