Outcomes Wings for Water
Outcomes Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Water
Wings for Water, a Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Water
The outcomes of the Wings for Water multi-stakeholder dialogue on water:
- A ‘Wings For Water’ Youth Program allowing 20 young water advocates to bring together a
diversity of professional and cultural backgrounds towards a common definition* on water cooperation
(in the context of the UN International Year of Water Cooperation) and engagement to continue to - A Wake-up Call on Water; which was handed over to Ms Ellen Johnson Sirlaef, President of Liberia,
Co-Chair of the Secretary-General High-Level Panel on the Post 2015the High Level Panel of the Post 2015 Development Agenda; with the result that ‘Water’ is now high priority on the UN Agenda. - The written document on WASH from His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew
- A spiritual statement ‘a fundamental shift in mindset ‘Water, from a commercial commodity to a
sacred gift’. This statement was endorsed by all spiritual leaders present at the conference on March 21&22. - A lively Wings for Water Facebook group (one for participants and one open group)
- The initiative for founding a ‘ Global Interfaith Wash Alliance’: The spiritual leader, Imam
Illyassi, Head of the All India Organization of Imams of Mosques, agreed to integrate a sanitation
program for Imams of Bangladesh (from the BRAC NGO) in his study program of all Imams in India (500,000).
cooperate among several youth networks;