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Women for Water Partnership

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Financing for Development:
  • Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
  • Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
  • Mobilizing international resources for development

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Information and communication technologies
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Research
  • Service provision
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the environment
  • Women in power and decision-making

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Capacity-building
  • Climate change
  • Disaster management and vulnerability
  • Finance
  • Freshwater
  • Gender equality
  • Indicators
  • Information for decision-making and participation
  • Integrated decision-making
  • International law
  • Major Groups
  • Partnerships
  • Poverty
  • Protecting and managing the natural resources
  • Rural Development
  • Sanitation
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Waste (solid)
  • Waste Management
    • Geographic scope: International
    Millennium Development Goals:
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 2008
    Organizational structure: Alliance according to Dutch Law
    Number and type of members: In 2023, the Women for Water Partnership counts 27 member organizations and has presence in over 100, predominantly low- and middle-income countries. Many of our members are umbrella organizations. The members of WfWP are very diverse, ranging from women for water professionals to service organizations, business and professional women, grassroots organizations, lobby and advocacy groups.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: WfWP is a strategic partner, member, or in alliance with over 20 networks, including gender equality in water -domain multi-stakeholder alliance, UNU-INWEH, UNW-DPAC and Global Water Challenge (see Annual Reports))
    Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Grants from Governments
  • Foreign and international grants
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