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title = "Global Water Initiatives: What Do the Experts Think?",
abstract = "Global water initiatives (GWIs) are institutions whose fundamental purpose is to advance the knowledge base regarding the world{\textquoteright}s inland water and its management. Additionally, since the 1980s, the core aim of many GWIs has expanded to include an active social and policy component. Thus, the mandate of many of these initiatives now includes attempts to improve access to potable water and sanitation across the globe.",
keywords = "Global Water, Global Water Partnership, Professional Society, United Nations, World Water",
author = "Varady, {Robert G.} and Matthew Iles-Shih",
note = "Funding Information: • Like WWAP, and as its title indicates, the Global International Waters Assess-ment (GIWA), is a global assessment programme. Created in 1999 and based in Kalmar, Sweden, GIWA was designed as a fixed-term project, slated to con-clude its work at the end of 2003. Its aim is “to produce a comprehensive and integrated global assessment of international waters, the ecological status of and the causes of environmental problems in 66 water areas in the world, and focus on the key issues and problems facing the aquatic environment in trans-boundary waters”29 (GIWA 2005). Also like WWAP, GIWA received substan-tial financial support when it began, much of it from the United Nations Envi-ronment Programme (UNEP), the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and the Swedish government. Unlike WWAP, whose task has been to produce a single report every 3 years, GIWA was expected to issue periodic area reports on the 66 regions selected, as those areas were assessed. Many respondents apparently felt that GIWA had not fulfilled its promise and ranked the institution last among the 10 initiatives rated, giving GIWA a score of just 3.88, or just above D. In March 2005 GIWA distributed a performance survey to its constitu-ents. But other than that activity and a flurry of regional reports issued at the end of 2004, the degree to which GIWA continues to function is unclear. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2009, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-37224-0_3",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Water Resources Development and Management",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "53--101",
booktitle = "Water Resources Development and Management",
}