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The Freshwater Challenge: Accelerating Restoration and Conservation of Freshwater
The Freshwater Challenge (FWC) is a country-led initiative that aims to support, integrate and accelerate the restoration of 300,000 km of degraded rivers and 350 million hectares of degraded wetlands by 2030, as well as conserve intact freshwater ecosystems. 54 countries and the European Union have joined the Freshwater Challenge so far.
The Freshwater Challenge: Accelerating Restoration and Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems is a GEF-8 funded Project with the objective to support country-led target setting and prioritisation of policies and plans, learning, and communications that strengthen their freshwater ecosystem interventions and accelerate progress towards the achievement of their 2030 FWC commitments.
The Project has 4 components:
- Component 1: Supporting Countries and Development Institutions to Monitor Freshwater Challenge Objectives
- Component 2: Supporting Countries to Operationalize their Freshwater Challenge Objectives from Source to Sea
- Component 3: Enabling Country Learning to Strengthen National Freshwater Challenge Objectives
- Component 4: Communicating to Raise the Profile of Freshwater Ecosystems Locally, Nationally, in Transboundary Basins, and Globally
Project partners
The Implementing Agency (IA) for the project is WWF-US with IUCN as the Executing Agency. In partnership with local stakeholders and country FWC Focal Points, the FWC Core Partners will lead in-country pilots in Brazil (Wetlands International), Cambodia (Conservation International), and Tanzania (The Nature Conservancy).
The project is made possible thanks to the financial support of the GEF Trust Fund.
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