Women in Water Diplomacy Network After Action Report
Publisher: SIWI
Author(s): Elizabeth A. Koch and Ekta Patel
Date: 2023
Topics: Climate Change, Gender, Governance
In August 2022, the Women in Water Diplomacy Network launched the ‘A Path Forward for Women, Water, Peace and Security’ Global Strategy at the World Water Week.
The Global Strategy is built around Five Strategic Pillars harmonizing prioritized actions across the growing global Network to advance the Network’s overarching objective to improve gender equality in high-level decision making in transboundary basins with focus on women’s leadership in regional dialogues around shared waters – with resultant positive implications for regional peace and human security.
Strategic Pillar Four aims to ‘contribute to elevating dialogue, knowledge, and experience around the intersecting themes of the Women in Water Diplomacy Network (i.e., women, water, peace and security) as part of basin wide, regional, and global dialogue processes.’ Pillar Four specifically identified the UN Water Conference in New York in March 2023 as a strategic and prioritized milestone for collective Network engagement to tangibly impact the trajectory of water and peace related discourse in transboundary basins globally.