World Bank Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership 2022-2025

The Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP) is a global co-financing fund at the World Bank, housed under and integrated into Water Global Practice (Water GP). With a poverty focus, GWSP supports countries to achieve SDG 6- a water secure world for all. Inclusion is a special theme to ensure and monitor that efforts promote participation and requirements of vulnerable groups, including people living with disabilities. GWSP operates in the water and sanitation sector, with water resource management and with sustainable water use in agriculture. GWSP has country presence in a large number of countries and is a reputable actor for global knowledge production and dissemination with opportunities for international as well as national policy influence. Through the close the connection to the World Bank's operations for lending, GWSP has the opportunity to catalyze funding to implement plans and programs. In addition to GWSP being able to influence loans so that plans and initiatives can be realized and scaled up, the close connection to the World Bank's loan operations enables GWSP to contribute to the design of loans that are of a higher quality and better integrate the perspective of poor people, equality and inclusion and the environment - and climate aspects. Sida assesses that GWSP's work has contributed and continues to contribute to advancing climate adaptation through, for example, initiatives for water reservoirs with multiple purposes (multipurpose), management and handling of catchment areas, resilience against drought and to emission reductions through, for example, nature-based solutions that integrate green and gray infrastructure , for example in sewage treatment. Many efforts thereby also contribute to disaster risk reduction. The World Bank's system for environmental integration has been assessed as well developed by Sida centrally. GWSP's work, mainly in the water resources part and water for agriculture, has a direct positive impact on environmental effects, including on biodiversity. Through GWSP's support, the environmental perspective on, for example, World Bank loans for related infrastructure is strengthened. GWSP's work in water supply and sewage also contributes positively to reduced environmental impact, but that is not the primary aim, which is rather increased access to safe water and sanitation. The effort involves a lot of private sector collaboration, partly with the aim of promoting private investment. Based on established progress for eg gender equality and conflict, from the mid-term evaluation and the updated strategy, Sida assesses that for all perspectives, there are overall goals and a structural framework for how the perspectives should be addressed and integrated. GWSP has a system for measuring the number of interventions that include gender equality work, which requires that the intervention has a logical flow from analysis, to activities and results frameworks that address inequality. The goal that 80% of initiatives should be marked by gender equality has so far been exceeded every year.