CPWC improves the capacity in water resources management to cope with the impacts of increasing variability of the world’s climate by building bridges between different scientific disciplines and stakeholders. CPWC sets in motion social and political processes that will eventually lead to the adoption of coping strategies for climate change.
The CPWC aims to stimulate co-operation between the climate and water community from the local up to the glocal level. Both communities consist of numerous stakeholders including policy makers, scientists, practitioners such as farmers and water managers, and the public. Bringing these communities together requires building bridges between the stakeholders to raise legitimacy at the policy level, credibility at the knowledge level and public support for action at the practitioners level.
So far CPWC has, amongst others, successfully:
- facilitated multi-stakeholder dialogues at the local, national, basin and regional level in Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia
- conducted trainings and developed training materials on Climate Change in Integrated Water Management
- contributed to at international leading policy forums and conferences, such as the World Water Forum
- published peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals
- produced movies on climate change and published brochures to raise awareness of a broader audience.