The "Water Stewardship Initiative" intends to scale up cooperation with the private sector. It will create innovative partnerships to mobilise bottom-up action between government, business and civil society for improved water (and land) management in developing countries. It recognizes that water is a shared resource and cannot be secured by one actor alone.
The "Water Stewardship Initiative" powerfully engages water and energy utilities and agricultural producers in understanding and addressing water risks. It fully implements the nexus-approach. This initiative was launched by state secretary Gudrun Kopp (BMZ) during the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference.
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Announcer:
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Gudrun Kopp, Secretary of State, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
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Lead Organisation:
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{http://www.bmz.de/en/index.html|Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)}
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Partners:
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{http://www.giz.de/|Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH}
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