Project Team
Jason Morrison, Mai-Lan Ha, Peter Schulte
Pacific Institute
https://www.pacinst.org
Janek Hermann-Friede, Lotte Feuerstein, Martha Rychlewski
Water Integrity Network (WIN)
https://www.waterintegritynetwork.net
Nick Hepworth and Suvi Sojamo
Water Witness International
www.waterwitness.org
Ken Caplan and Jacques-Edouard Tiberghien
Partnerships in Practice, Ltd.
www.partnershipsinpractice.co.uk
Guy Pegram and Hannah Baleta
Pegasys Strategy and Development, Ltd.
www.pegasys.co.za
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.
Methodology
The development of these guidelines occurred over four stages and involved extensive research and multi-stakeholder consultations. During this process, the project team undertook desk-based research; held more than 90 multi-stakeholder interviews; convened roundtable discussions in Paris, Lusaka, Lima, London, and Stockholm; and held validation workshops in South Africa, Peru, and India. The project team also regularly consulted with the Integrity in Water Stewardship Initiatives Advisory Board, a group of experts and practitioners representing companies, development agencies, NGOs, journalists, and others with familiarity and expertise in WSIs. The team also consulted with the CEO Water Mandate’s Collective Action Working Group, composed of representatives from a subset of Mandate-endorsing companies.
The first stage of this project involved the development of a desk study that drew upon an extensive literature review and bilateral interviews to help frame the issue of integrity in WSIs and fed into the development of a field assessment methodology. The second stage involved an intensive field assessment and consultation process to understand the actual integrity issues facing WSIs on the ground. These findings were used during the project’s third phase to develop initial guidance and a framework with supporting tools for managing the integrity of WSIs. The framework was subsequently tested via validation workshops and further refined, resulting in these final guidelines