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  • Navigate
    • About
    • Overview
    • Understanding Water Policy
    • Risks and Opportunities
    • Core Principles
    • Aligning Practice with Engagement Principles
      • Assess the Context
      • Explore Opportunities
      • Core Engagement Strategies
      • Accountability
  • Download Full Report (PDF)

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Guy Pegram
Pegasys Strategy & Development
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Nick Hepworth
Water Witness International
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Stuart Orr
WWF
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About the CEO Water Mandate

The CEO Water Mandate is a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General and the UN Global Compact, providing a multi-stakeholder platform for the development, implementation, and disclosure of corporate water sustainability policies and practices. The UN Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative with over 7000 corporate participants and other stakeholders from more than 140 countries. The UN Global Compact is based on ten principles in the areas of human rights, labor standards, the environment, and anti-corruption.

About the Guide

This Guide is a product of the CEO Water Mandate, drafted by the Pacific Institute in its capacity as the “operational arm” of the Mandate Secretariat in consort with World Wildlife Fund, Water Witness International, and Pegasys Strategy & Development. Financial support for the development of this Guide was provided by the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. 

The Guide’s origins date from the CEO Water Mandate’s Third Working Conference in Istanbul at the Fifth World Water Forum (March 2009), where endorsing companies and key stakeholders first expressed their interest in developing a document to guide responsible business engagement with water-related public policy. At the Mandate’s Fourth Working Conference in Stockholm (August 2009), endorsers and stakeholders affirmed their interest, and agreed upon the Guide’s overarching objectives and scope. The Mandate released the “Framework for Responsible Business Engagement with Water Policy”—a document that summarized key concepts from this Guide (now presented as the Executive Overview)—in advance of the UN Global Compact’s Leadership Summit in New York City (June 2010).

An extensive review of existing and emerging practice, as well as consultations with industry and civil society representatives, academia, and governmental organizations, has informed the engagement guidance contained within this document. Given the wide range of views regarding the merits, pitfalls, and controversies of business intervention in public processes, the drafting team has emphasized an iterative, inclusive, and transparent analytical process. Throughout this process, key stakeholders and the general public were engaged to review and help shape the project work plan, annotated outline, methodological approach, and various drafts of the report. This engagement was performed in part through the CEO Water Mandate’s working conferences and Policy Engagement Working Group (comprised of Mandate endorsers) who met periodically throughout the Guide’s development to discuss key issues. Working Group meetings included key stakeholders representing a wider variety of interests on an ad hoc basis. The annotated outline of the Guide was open to public review for eight weeks in July and August 2009 via the UN Global Compact and Pacific Institute websites. A prior iteration of this Guide underwent a public review period throughout April 2010, with feedback informing this final version.

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Published

November

2010

Table of Contents

  • About
  • Overview
  • Understanding Water Policy
  • Risks and Opportunities
  • Core Principles
  • Aligning Practice with Engagement Principles
    • Assess the Context
    • Explore Opportunities
    • Core Engagement Strategies
    • Accountability
  • Download Full Report (PDF)

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