Driving collective action to create catchments in balance
WAVE – the Water, Values, and Ecosystems Partnership - is an organization dedicated to scaling a collective action approach to strengthen water and biodiversity management in agriculture – with a focus on agri-food supply chains.
We do this by bringing together farmers, buyers, retailers, governments and NGOs to create catchments in balance - whereby water inflows, outflows and storage are sustainably managed to support healthy, biodiverse ecosystems and enhance local livelihoods.
The founding partners - Partners for Water the government of the Netherlands, and NewForesight - are leaders in driving multi-stakeholder and systemic initiatives to advance sustainable trade and improve water management in the agricultural sector.
Since 2023, we have activated the organization’s first project in the Aconcagua valley in Chile. Building on these strong foundations, over the coming years, the partnership aims to scale its approach across other drought affected regions – including in South America and Africa.
We take a holistic catchment level approach, bringing in solutions at the farm, supply chain and enabling environment levels to develop economically viable solutions, backed by shared responsibility, smarter incentives, and aligned investments across the supply chain. Through WAVE, we:
collaborate with farmers to support the implementation of more sustainable practices,
partner with buyers and retailers to drive the required market transformations that create more sustainable supply chains, and
work with governments and civil society actors to create a stronger enabling environment that facilitates enhanced water management.
Many companies have complex supply chains – and source agri-commodities from regions with current or future water security risks. Many lack a coordinated approach to addressing these risks.
on the ground and rarely considers market dynamics or the enabling environment.
without a critical mass of supply chain actors involved.
needed to sustain initiatives in the longer term.
due to limited visibility across enough producers, thus not tackling catchment-wide issues.
Water challenges cannot be solved without solutions at 3 interconnected levels – farm, supply and enabling environment.
We take a holistic catchment level approach, bringing in solutions at the farm, supply chain and enabling environment.
We develop market-based solutions to build a more conducive environment along the supply chain to invest in sustainability and water management.
We establish a critical mass of producers and downstream actors and implement strong governance to work more efficiently on effective solutions.
We engage with the public sector and civil society actors to strengthen the enabling environment, pool resources, improve collaboration, and drive resource efficiencies.
1. Apply Overarching Strategy
2. Apply Implementation Framework
Define the situation, stakeholders, data, and risks to define the mission and align key actors on priorities.
Develop solutions, define strategy, clarify services and value, and form a global-local partnership structure.
Plan detailed actions, set governance, secure financing, and establish monitoring for implementation and learning.
Assess outcomes, gather insights, refine strategy, and prepare for the next cycle
Individual action will not effectively address water and biodiversity risks – collective action is required for true, transformative change.
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