WRT at Stockholm World Water Week 2026
Since 1991, Stockholm World Water Week has brought thousands of participants together each year to collaborate to solve the planet’s most pressing water challenges. The Water Resilience Tracker (WRT) team is highly engaged in this global community, participating in two official events and exhibiting at the UK and Dutch pavilions. Find out where you can meet us in the session details below.
Monday, 24 August 2026
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Location: UK Pavilion
Monitoring progress towards water resilience is challenging. Although many different indicator frameworks are in use, it is difficult to link and interpret this data to build a coherent resilience narrative for use in national policy.
In this showcase event at the UK Pavilion, we will launch our technical note Water Resilience Indicators for National Implementation, a a reference guide of different approaches that can be applied by practitioners working on water resilience indicator frameworks.
Leaders from our team will also be on hand to introduce the Water Resilience Tracker and our in-country impact.
Join us to discuss how monitoring frameworks can be used to create a coherent narrative to strengthen water resilience.
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Location: Dutch Pavilion
The Water Resilience Tracker is a tool and approach linking international climate agreements to national level policy and local level implementation, with a focus on inclusion at every step.
At this event in the Dutch Pavilion, we will share our learnings from our work in 10 countries, launching two reports:
Scaling Water and Climate Resilience: Tools to Link National Strategies to Local Realities
Inclusion as Resilience: Operationalizing Equitable Water and Climate Governance
Leaders from our team will also be on hand to introduce the Water Resilience Tracker and our in-country impact.
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
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Location: Room 24/25, Level 2 (On-site only)
To meet today’s growing water and climate challenges, we must accelerate bold, climate resilient and sustainable water management to secure water for all. This interactive session brings together experts, practitioners, and policymakers to explore real cases and co create actionable, inclusive solutions for climate resilient water security.
Session Description
Water resilience is fundamental to national stability, economic development, and social well-being. Water scarcity acts as a risk multiplier, intensifying social and economic pressures that can drive displacement, conflict, and insecurity. By 2030, global freshwater demand is projected to outstrip supply by 40% due to climate change and rising consumption, intensifying pressures on water access, sanitation, and biodiversity. This session explores pathways to reverse this trajectory by accelerating practical, climate resilient, inclusive, and sustainable solutions that strengthen water security for all. The session will give special attention to the importance of nature-based solutions for climate resilient water security. The session will bring together policymakers, experts, and practitioners to exchange global experiences and insights from multi level, cross sector dialogues. To set the scene, participants will be introduced to frameworks and cases around the world presenting how to design pathways at national and local level driving transformative changes into actionable, system-wide resilience measures. The audience will be encouraged to share experiences driving transformative changes. The interactive discussions held online via collaborative platforms such as Miro and onsite through roundtable dialogues, will guide the co creation of transformative pathways and seize opportunities for mainstream climate resilient water solutions worldwide.
Programme
Workshop: roundtable discussions (90 minutes)
Opening address - Luke Bailey (FCDO)
The business case for water resilience investment - Martin Shouler (Arup)
Multi-level governance approaches - Juan Carlos Sanchez Ramirez (IWMI)
Strengthening economic resilience through water resilience - Niels Vlaanderen (Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management)
Accelerating systemic change through multi-stakeholder collaboration - Audrey Legat (Deltares)
Leveraging private sector engagement and finance to drive systemic change - Maria Isabel Cruz Gutierrez (CDP)
Roundtable discussion
Young Water Leaders
Closing remarks - Mark Smith (IMWI)
Next steps - Harm Duel (Deltares)
Convenors: Arup, Deltares, International Water Management Institute
Wednesday, 26 August 2026
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Location: A2, Level 6
Summary
This panel will explore best practices in accelerating water resilience through stronger coordination between national and local actors. Drawing on experiences from around the world, the session will highlight solutions that enable cities, basins, and communities to translate national priorities into locally led, people-centered action.
Session Description
Achieving resilience requires overcoming many obstacles, whether risk-related, relational, geographic or geopolitical, just to name a few. The need to coordinate action across governance levels, sectors, and stakeholders renders the task even more complicated. Gaps between national policies and local implementation often limit the effectiveness and inclusiveness of water and climate investments. This panel will examine practical solutions to strengthening national-local coordination to advance participatory resilience outcomes.
Participants will hear useful examples from Colombia, Iraq, Ecuador and Mexico, illustrating how local authorities, basin organizations, businesses, and national partners can collaborate to address risk, mobilize finance, and ensure that resilience investments respond to local needs. The session will showcase the GIZ-Water for Future Initiative, which blends policy guidance, innovative financing mechanisms, and peer-to-peer learning platforms that support evidence-based decision-making and shared accountability. The discussion will emphasize inclusion, focusing on how participatory approaches and coordination mechanisms can strengthen long-term resilience for populations most in need.Programme
Welcome and Introduction of the Water for Future programme (GIZ/BMZ)
Presentation on the Water Resilience Tracker approach and publication "Scaling Water and Climate Resilience: Tools to Linik National Strategies to Local Realities by Idrees Maylar, Director of the Water Resilience Tracker, AGWA
Panel discussion moderated by Alice Guilia Brandt, GIZ Ecuador with:
Humberto Tavera Quiroz, University of Cordoba, Colombia
Hugo Kerguelen, Mayor of Monteria, Colombia
Hydar Lafta Ali, Head of Strategic Studies Dept., Planning and Follow-up Directorate of the Ministry of Water Resources of Iraq
Maritza Bermeo, GIZ Ecuador
Maria Ana Rodriguez, GIZ Mexico
Closing by Miriam Seemann, GIZ