Projects & programmes

SIWI runs a large number of projects, programmes, and platforms across the world. With our unusually diverse expertise, we offer advice on a broad range of water-related issues, sometimes together with other leading organisations and strategic partners.

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Platform

Swedish Water House

Swedish Water House is an independent platform for dialogue, innovation, and exploring solutions to pressing global water-related issues. We seek to bridge the gap between science, policy, and practice.
Aerial view of a river meandering through a Mangrove forest and out into the sea.
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Platform

Action Platform for Source-to-Sea Management

The Action Platform for Source-to-Sea Management is a network of organizations committed to promoting, implementing, and building expertise on source-to-sea management.
The Euphrates River, as it flows through Turkey.
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Programme

Shared Waters Partnership

The Shared Waters Partnership supports transboundary water cooperation in fragile and conflict-affected regions.

Women carrying water on their heads, near the city of Tanzania, Dar Es Salaam.
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Programme

Accountability for Sustainability

The Accountability for Sustainability Programme aims to make water and sanitation services more sustainable through improved governance. It is carried out by SIWI together with UNICEF and UNDP.
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Programme

UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility

The UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility helps countries manage their water resources more sustainably.
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Award

Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Stockholm Junior Water Prize is a competition for students aged 15 to 20 who have developed school projects that can solve major water challenges. The competition attracts thousands of entries from around 40 countries.
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Source-to-sea Programme

SIWI is a leading champion of source-to-sea governance and an expert in its implementation. We run pilot projects, generate new knowledge, organize training, and host the Source-to-Sea Platform with like-minded organizations.
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Award

Stockholm Water Prize

Stockholm Water Prize awards excellence among scientists and practitioners and celebrates achievements that have changed the world.
Okavango delta (Okavango Grassland) is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa (view from the airplane) - Botswana
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Programme

International Centre for Water Cooperation

The International Centre for Water Cooperation generates and shares knowledge on water cooperation within and between countries. It is hosted by SIWI under the auspices of UNESCO.
SIWI's Acting Director Karin Gardes, President of World Water Week's Scientific Committee Jon Lane and Host Arati Davis standing on Centre Stage at World Water Week 2023, with large audience sitting in the foreground.
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World Water Week

World Water Week is the meeting place for everyone who wants to understand how water can help us address the world’s greatest challenges. Starting in 1991, it is now the leading annual conference on global water issues.

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Katwe / Uganda - October 25, 2016: African woman working in the salt mining industry in a salty lake in Uganda
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GO-WATER

The GO-WATER Programme, or Building Governance Capacity for Improved Water Security, started in 2021 to strengthen the water sector in the Global South.
Swedish Water House
Coffee plantation in Ecuador, grown under native trees cover.
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Water for Resilient Landscapes

The Water for Resilient Landscapes programme generates and shares knowledge on the role of water in the landscape.

Antiobiotic manufacturing.
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Responsible Antibiotics Manufacturing Platform (RAMP)

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the world’s greatest health threats emerging from unsustainable practices of antibiotics production. The Responsible Antibiotics Manufacturing Platform, RAMP, seeks to set a new standard for the industry. Through the platform, procurers, regulators, and companies co-create the business case for responsible production of antibiotics.

Old growth forest in Jämtland, Sweden.
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Locally Controlled Forest Restoration (LoCoFoRest)

LoCoFoRest, is a governance- and market-based training programme to improve capacity in sustainable forest restoration, local livelihoods, and forest ecosystem services.
Multicoloured yarn bobbins.
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Sustainable Textile Water Initiative (STWI)

The Sustainable Textile Initiative (STWI) focuses on resource efficiency in the fashion textile industry, to reduce the negative impacts of emissions from energy, chemicals, greenhouse gases and water. The original network consisted of Scandinavian brands and led to impressive gains.

Transboundary Water Cooperation
Panorama wild Pyandzh River and Valley with high mountains at Vilojati in Tajikistan with Afghanistan at the other site of the river.
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Women in Water Management in Central Asia and Afghanistan

This programme promotes women water professionals’ participation in decision-making in the water sector and gender mainstreaming in water governance.

The beautiful Blue Nile Falls at Tis Issat, Ethiopia.
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Eastern Nile journalists network

Through the Eastern Nile Journalists Network, reporters can collaborate across borders and expand their knowledge on transboundary water issues.
Participants of the Women in Diplomacy Network project. Image by Elizabeth Yaari
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The Women in Water Diplomacy network in the Nile

The Women in Water Diplomacy network in the Nile promotes women’s participation in high-level water diplomacy processes. Through the Network, members can share experiences and lessons learned.
Water and Sanitation
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City Water Resilience Approach (CWRA)

Supporting cities to take a more resilient approach to water management.
Daily filling of jugs from communal tap in rural Peru.
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Rural water supply and sanitation information system (SIASAR)

Providing support to rural water and sanitation services through the Rural Water and Sanitation Information System (SIASAR).
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Concluded project

Decentralized water treatment systems (DEWATS)

Supporting Laos in the development of small-scale infrastructure water supply systems and Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems (DEWATS).
Public toilet sign in Vientiane, Laos.
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WASH international policy

Working to support countries in ensuring resilient and sustainable water and sanitation services for citizens, by influencing policy debates and processes.
Building sanitation facilities, Guatamala.
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Water integrity work in Latin America

Supporting integrity in the water and sanitation sector in Latin America.
Blue sign of public lavatory with arrow mark in the Historic World Heritage Site of Guanajuato., Mexico. Photo: Takamex
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Sanitation in public spaces

Evaluating sanitation in public spaces in LAC with a human rights-based approach.
Hand washing facilities outside classrooms of a rural school, Thailand.
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Regional public good from COVID-19 to resilience

Ensuring access to safe water, sanitation, and adequate hygiene services in the face of a crisis.
Dharavi slums on a river bank, Mumbai.
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Concluded project

Community of practice on water and open government

Tackling the world's water challenges through an open government approach.
Water Cooperation and Diplomacy
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InnWater

The InnWater project aims to promote social innovation, to renew multi-level and cross-sectoral water governance associated with economic and financial mechanisms, and to support EU Green Deal transitions while ensuring water system sustainability.
Fisherman throwing his net at sunrise on a tributory of the Mekong river.
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Governance, accountability and learning for water sustainability (GoAL-WaterS)

Sustainable planning, use and protection of water resources through better water governance.
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Design and accountability for source-to-sea action on plastic

Building on experience from other recent source-to-sea projects, the Design and Accountability for Source-to-Sea Action on Plastic project promotes a holistic approach to addressing the problem of plastics polluting our waterways and oceans.

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Global textile research

Investigating the water-related human rights-responsibilities of the textile industry.
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Foundations for source-to-sea management

This completed project established the foundations for source-to-sea management in two locations, expanded practical guidance, methods and tools through pilot testing the source-to-sea approach and captured and disseminated results and learning nationally, regionally, and globally.
Japanese bridge in Hoi An, Vietnam. Photo by Minh Hai
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Source-to-sea framework for marine litter prevention

The source-to-sea framework for marine litter prevention takes a holistic view of the sources of and solutions to the problem of marine litter. It provides a framework for preventing marine litter based on the source-to-sea approach.
Mountain river in lush forest.
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Concluded Project

Nature insurance value: assessment and demonstration (NAIAD)

Involving the insurance sector in nature-based solutions.
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concluded Project

Unlocking the potential of groundwater for the poor in sub-Saharan Africa

Studying groundwater dependency in rapidly growing, mixed peri-urban areas in Africa.
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concluded project

Governance, advocacy and leadership in water, sanitation and hygiene (GoAL WaSH)

Supporting the assessment, planning and implementation of better water governance in challenging contexts.
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