Challenges in food systems, landscapes and water security call for research and innovation to advance transformation in these systems. Water lies at the center of the integrated approaches needed and it is for this reason that CGIAR and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) together prepared this CGIAR Water Systems Integration Roadmap 2024–2030.
Poor communities continue to bear the largest burden of water insecurity, and the voices of women, young people and marginalized groups have few channels through which they can express their lived realities. Water insecurity thus threatens the world’s commitment to ‘leave no one behind.’ Recognizing this, CGIAR is taking an unprecedented step to ensure that its research and innovation lead the way in responding to water challenges. The time has come for CGIAR to seize the untapped potential for integrating water systems science and aligning research and innovation for water security across CGIAR programs and Research Centers. One CGIAR is declaring with one voice that a food-secure future can only exist in a water-secure world.
This ambition is shared by the leadership of CGIAR and IWMI. We have created this CGIAR Water Systems Integration Roadmap 2024–2030 alongside the new IWMI Strategy 2024–2030. The two documents establish a common strategic framework, aligned to the CGIAR 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy, to strengthen the contribution of water systems science to the CGIAR Impact Areas. The IWMI Strategy 2024-2030 describes how IWMI applies this framework, while the CGIAR Water Systems Integration Roadmap 2024-2030 shows how the whole of CGIAR, including IWMI, can work together to transform water systems and enhance water security.
Policies / Sustainable Development Goals / Partnerships / Water governance / Climate change / Risk / Water security / Innovation / Research institutions / CGIAR / Frameworks / Strategies / Transformation / Integration / Water systems
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