UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate (UN Global Compact)

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The CEO Water Mandate, a partnership between the UN Global Compact and the Pacific Institute, formed in 2007 to mobilize business leaders to advance water stewardship, sanitation, and the Sustainable Development Goals in partnership with the United Nations, governments, peers, civil society, and others.

The Mandate develops tools and resources, convenes stakeholders, and facilitates meaningful partnerships and on-the-ground collective actions that improve conditions in at-risk river basins around the world. The work of the Mandate and its initiatives including the Water Resilience Coalition and WASH4Work focuses on identifying actions, tools, and resources to help companies implement good water stewardship towards as a direct contribution to Sustainable Development Goal 6.

Estimated budget for water and sanitation activities (USD):
1-10 million

Example of Activities

Water Resilience Assessment Framework

Present a globally accepted, comprehensive framework to measure and inform action to build water system resilience at the basin scale for all stakeholders, including ecosystems and vulnerable communities.
Indicator:
Cross-cutting work on SDG 6
Website:
Water Resilience Assessment Framework
Entity:
UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate (UN Global Compact)

The Water Resilience Coalition

The WRC was launched in 2020 as an industry-driven, CEO-led coalition of the UN Global Compact CEO Water Mandate that aims to elevate global water stress to the top of the corporate agenda in the face of growing challenges posed by climate change to preserve the world’s freshwater resources through collective action in water-stressed basins and ambitious, quantifiable commitments.
Indicator:
Cross-cutting work on SDG 6
Website:
The Water Resilience Coalition
Entity:
UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate (UN Global Compact)

Water Action Hub

The Water Action Hub was launched as an online platform to connect different organizations interested in working together on water. The Hub maps organizations interests, resources, and projects across regions around the world to help highlight the good practice that exists while helping organizations identify those with whom they can collaborate.
Indicator:
Cross-cutting work on SDG 6
Website:
Water Action Hub
Entity:
UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate (UN Global Compact)

CEO Mandate Toolbox

Toolbox: Recognizing that companies of all sizes will need to be engaged in water stewardship in order to effectively tackle today’s water challenges, the Water Stewardship Toolbox collates and organizes information and resources for companies to easily find useful resources and information to help them along the “water stewardship journey.”
Indicator:
Cross-cutting work on SDG 6
Website:
CEO Mandate Toolbox
Entity:
UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate (UN Global Compact)

Target setting

The Mandate is working with a number of partners including CDP, WRI, TNC, WWF, and UNEP-DHI on a project to develop a methodology for more meaningful corporate water target setting. The methodology is currently being tested in a number of regions around the world including California, South, Africa, India, and Brazil.
Indicator:
Cross-cutting work on SDG 6
Entity:
UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate (UN Global Compact)

Business alliance for water and climate

BAFWAC: The Business Alliance for Water and Climate was formed in ahead of the COP21 Paris agreement with founding partners, CDP, WBCSD, and Suez. The Mandate currently serves as coordinator. Companies who are part of BAFWAC commit to 1) analyzing and sharing water related risks to implement collaborative response strategies 2) measure and report on water use data and 3) reduce impacts on water in their operations and throughout their value chain. BAFWAC is also building a community of best practice of tools and resources around three innovation areas: circular water management, climate resilient agriculture, and natural infrastructure.
Indicator:
Cross-cutting work on SDG 6
Website:
Business alliance for water and climate
Entity:
UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate (UN Global Compact)

WASH4Work

The Mandate serves as Secretariat for the WASH4Work initiative which looks to mobilize business to take action on WASH in their own operations, in the communities where they operate, and across their supply chains. The initiative has 15 partners spanning UN agencies, civil society, and businesses.
Indicator:
Cross-cutting work on SDG 6
Website:
WASH4Work
Entity:
UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate (UN Global Compact)

Current work on the Sustainable Development Goals

Cross-cutting work on SDG 6
SDG target 6.1: drinking water
SDG target 6.2: sanitation and hygiene

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