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Why convening matters
Many of today’s water challenges persist not because solutions are unknown, but because efforts are fragmented. Responsibilities for water are spread across sectors, institutions, and borders, while decisions that affect water are often made in isolation. Strong water governance depends on the ability to bring people together, build trust, and create shared understanding around complex and sometimes contested issues.
What SIWI does as a convenor and co-creator
As a convenor and co-creator, SIWI provides trusted, impartial spaces where science, policy, and practice meet. We bring together governments, international and regional organizations, researchers, civil society, the private sector, and communities to exchange perspectives, explore trade-offs, and develop solutions that reflect both evidence and real-world experience. Our role is not to advocate for a single answer, but to enable collective thinking and joint ownership of outcomes.
From dialogue to shared solutions
Convening, in SIWI’s work, goes far beyond organizing meetings. It is about designing processes that encourage openness, inclusion, and meaningful dialogue — even in politically sensitive or complex contexts. Through co-creation, we ensure that knowledge is not simply shared, but actively shaped together, increasing relevance, legitimacy, and the likelihood that ideas are taken forward.
Why partners work with SIWI
SIWI’s role as a convenor and co-creator offers a clear value: an impartial platform that helps align perspectives, build durable relationships, and support water governance solutions that extend well beyond individual projects or events.
Convening in practice
SIWI’s role as a convenor takes shape through long-term platforms and processes that bring diverse actors together around shared water challenges. These platforms are designed to build trust over time, connect knowledge with policy processes, and support collaboration that continues beyond individual meetings or events.
World Water Week
World Water Week is SIWI’s annual global platform for dialogue and collaboration on water. By convening thousands of actors from across sectors and regions, the Week creates space for exchange, learning, and partnerships that shape water governance long after the event itself.
Water for Climate Pavilion
The Water for Climate Pavilion is a global convening platform coordinated by SIWI that brings together governments, international and intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and the private sector as partners to advance water as a climate solution within UNFCCC processes.
Through sustained dialogue before, during, and between COPs, the Pavilion helps unify the voice of the international water community, connect science with negotiation processes, and strengthen collaboration across climate and water agendas.
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