International Waters learning Exchange & Resource Network

Stockholm World Water Week 2023: Seeds of Change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World

20-24 August 2023, Waterfront Congress Center
An inclusive meeting place to foster collaboration, inspire innovation, and accelerate water action. GEF IW:LEARN and partners co-organized events to promote transboundary water cooperation.

View some photos from the IW:LEARN events and booth at the World Water Week or watch the recordings from the events below.

Voices from the Field: Source-to-Sea Stories from Around the World


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Location: C4

This session focuses on the challenges international water law (IWL) is facing – from climate change to increasing pressure on water resources and from influences of other legal regimes to declining multilateralism – and discusses responses to those. It

aims at identifying innovative ways that can reform IWL and ensure its resilience. Click below to watch the video recording.

World Water Week 23 - Source to Sea


Making sustainable basin management work – Exchanging experiences across basins

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Location: C3

Cooperative management of shared basins is crucial for sustainable and peaceful development. But it faces numerous technical and political challenges. Many of these challenges are similar across the world’s basins and aquifers. Therefore, exchange between those managing these basins is crucial and will be at the center of this session.


Is international water law ready to face future challenges?

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Location: C1

This session focuses on the challenges international water law (IWL) is facing – from climate change to increasing pressure on water resources and from influences of other legal regimes to declining multilateralism – and discusses responses to those. It aims at identifying innovative ways that can reform IWL and ensure its resilience. Click below to watch the video recording.

World Water Week 23 - International Waters Law