Women in Water Diplomacy Network After Action Report
Publisher: SIWI, OSCE, ELI, and CAREC
Author(s): Jesse Ferraioli and Elizabeth A. Koch
Date: 2024
Topics: Gender
The Women in Water Diplomacy Network hosted its second Global Network Forum in Vienna, Austria from March 4-7, 2024. The Forum was attended by over 80 water diplomats from nearly 50 countries engaged in the Women in Water Diplomacy Networks in the Nile Basin, the Orange-Senqu Basin, Central Asia and Afghanistan, and North America, alongside other basin representatives and representatives of supporting development organizations and partners. The 2024 Global Network Forum was convened by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC) with the support of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), the US Department of State and the United Nations Development Program through SIWI’s Shared Waters Partnership program, as well as the governments of inter alia Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, through OSCE.
The Women in Water Diplomacy Network was initiated in 2017 to improve gender equality in high-level water and climate decision making in transboundary basins. The Network was developed in the Nile Basin and later adapted and replicated in other basins and regions including Central Asia and Afghanistan (since 2021) and North America (2023) and the Orange-Senqu (expected April 2024) through the Network’s global strategy ‘A Path Forward for Women, Water, Peace and Security.’ In 2022, the Network convened its first Global Network Forum alongside the release of the Network’s Global Strategy at the World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.