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The CEO Water Mandate mobilizes business leaders to advance water stewardship, sanitation, and the Sustainable Development Goals – in partnership with the United Nations, governments, peers, civil society, and others.
About Us
Mission
The CEO Water Mandate mobilizes business leaders to advance water stewardship, sanitation, and the Sustainable Development Goals – in partnership with the United Nations, governments, peers, civil society, and others.
How we work
Endorsers of the CEO Water Mandate recognize that they can identify and reduce critical water risks to their businesses, seize water-related opportunities, and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. The Mandate offers a unique platform to share best and emerging practices and to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships to address challenges related to water scarcity, water quality, water governance, and access to water and sanitation.
The Mandate Secretariat supports the initiative’s mission in many ways:
- Develops research, guidance, and tools that advance corporate water stewardship
- Convenes multi-stakeholder events to identify, explore, and solve key water challenges
- Facilitates meaningful collective action to improve conditions in at-risk river basins around the world
The CEO Water Mandate Secretariat
The CEO Water Mandate is a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General and the UN Global Compact, implemented in partnership with the Pacific Institute. These key partners work together as the CEO Water Mandate Secretariat.
The UN Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, with more than 12,000 corporate participants and stakeholders from more than 140 countries. The UN Global Compact is based on ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment, and anti-corruption.
The Pacific Institute is one of the world’s leading nonprofit research groups. The Institute creates and advances solutions to the world’s water challenges.
Governance
- The CEO Water Mandate
- Constitution
- Transparency-Disclosure Policy
- CDP-Water Fulfills COP-Water Requirement
- Transparency Framework, Phase I
- Transparency Framework, Phase II: Water Disclosure 2.0
- Integrity Measures
- Introduction to the CEO Water Mandate Brochure
- 2016-2018 Strategic Plan
- 2014-2015 Strategic Plan
The Mandate is governed by the Steering Committee, which oversees the initiative’s strategic, administrative, and financial arrangements. The CEO Water Mandate Steering Committee is composed of:
- Ten corporate representatives from diverse geographies who serve staggered two-year terms
- One representative of the UN Global Compact Office
- Special Advisors representing different stakeholder interests and spheres
The Secretariat makes decisions based on a consensus model. When consensus cannot be reached, a simple majority vote decides matters.
