• GIWA - why a new water initiative?
• What will GIWA accomplish?
• GIWA - who will do the work, and how will it be carried out?
• GIWA work structure and organization

• Partner presentations

• Assessments summaries

GIWA will depend on access to data and other information from a network of stakeholders in the water sphere, but will in turn provide scientific and other information that may be used by other international, regional and global bodies and activities in the field of international waters.

• Contact info and links to organizations, institutions, groups, teams, and individuals making up the global GIWA network.
• Links to organizations, institutions, groups, and networks making up the international water community.
• Links to region-specific organizations, institutions, groups, networks, etc. in the 66 subregions and 9 megaregions; resources of particular relevance in the respective area.

• GIWA Brochure [2001-02-26, PDF-file 1,3Mb]
  An illustrated brochure with readily comprehensible information about GIWA. The printed version of the brochure has been in use for some time now, but the content is nonetheless valid and very informative.
  
  
• UNEP Project Document GF/FP/1100-99-01
  
  
• "Global International Waters Assessment". Article by John C. Pernetta, Senior Programme Officer, UNEP/GEF Coordinating Unit, and Laurence D. Mee, former Coordinator of the GEF Black Sea Environmental Programme.
  
  
• "GIWA - Objectives, Scopes and Activities". Conference presentation (June 1999) by Prof. Per Wramner.
  
  
• UNEP-GEF Coordination Office
  
  
• UNDP-GEF Portfolio, International Waters.
  
  
• World Bank-GEF Portfolio (+ project summaries by region).
  
  
• Executive summary of the report from the first meeting of the GIWA Steering Group, 27-28 September, 1999
  
  
• General background information on GIWA.
  Prepared for the media attending the inauguration of GIWA (October 1999). Also available in Swedish.
  
  
• GIWA Progress Reports