Climate change, food and water security in South Asia

The Global Water Partnership (GWP) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) held a workshop of policymakers and international and regional experts working on the South Asian region in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23–24 February to explore new ways of promoting ‘out-of-the box’ thinking about the region’s food and water security issues. The specific objectives of the workshop were fivefold: To understand the current state of knowledge related to climate change, food security and water security; To distil lessons from past; To identify means of effective dissemination of existing knowledge; To explore and plan a collaborative platform/network/community of practice among GWP’s South Asia regional partnership (GWP SAS), the GWP Technical Committee, IWMI, and national and regional players; To map out how such a collaboration would work in practice, including organisational arrangements, a shared 5-year work plan and fundraising strategy, areas for research and analysis, periodic expert meetings, training, and publication and dissemination.