Water-Centric Resilience
AGWA’s vision is for effective climate change adaptation and mitigation practices to be mainstreamed and enabled within water resources management decision-making processes, policies, and implementation. The mission of AGWA is to provision tools, partnerships, guidance, and technical assistance to improve effective decision making, action, governance, and analytical processes in water resources management, focusing on climate adaptation and mitigation.
As a members-based network, our work is carried out with two broad purposes in mind:
Core network support, which includes sharing knowledge, connecting individuals and institutions to enable collaboration on water and climate projects and issues, identifying potential partners and growing the network; and promoting and advocating on the basis of existing tools, insights, and approaches.
Extended network support and outreach beyond the network, which includes technical assistance for project development and implementation; direct policy support; tool and methodological development; creating capacity building, educational, and training materials, programs, and workshops; and identifying and provisioning new programs and needs to reflect shifting conditions.
In addition, AGWA also values two cross-cutting purposes:
To contribute to water and climate policies and practices to ensure they connect with, reach, and enable resilient communities and institutions.
To foster and encourage dialogues between individuals and entities working on adaptation and mitigation of climate change, recognizing that water resources bridge these bodies of work.
Members of AGWA adhere to a set of shared values that guide our work, comprised of the following elements:
Sustainable water resources management is a key factor in supporting sustainable development plans, implementing climate plans and enabling risk management.
Policies, governance, and actions that include water and climate change elements should be both robust and flexible in the face of climate uncertainty.
The sustainability and resilience of ecosystems is a fundamental component of water resources management.
Adaptation and mitigation measures should ensure and contribute to socio-economic development and preservation of the environment.