Informal Stakeholder Baseline Survey: Current Status of National Efforts to Move Towards Sustainable Water Management Using an IWRM Approach

Abstract

"As a complement to its efforts to support countries to prepare national IWRM and Water efficiency plans by 2005, called for at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002, the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment commissioned the Global Water Partnership to conduct a baseline survey in order to assess the extent to which countries around the world are moving towards more integrated approaches to water resources development and management. GWP conducted the survey with a dual purpose in mind, (i) help countries learn from each other’s experiences and (ii), at the same time, provide a baseline for monitoring progress towards more sustainable water management, which is expected to be accelerated through the development of the above mentioned plans by 2005."