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Top tips on deploying your WaterProofanalysis to motivate stakeholders and working with catchment partners.

Learn more about NbS, the process for developing watershed investment programs, and key parties to bring on your journey.

Connect with relevant networks, obtain hand-in-hand assistance, identify local implementers, and find relevant resources

Water Funds Network

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The Water Funds Network is a global, multi-disciplinary network of water funds practitioners and other professionals interested in source water protection. Originally founded by The Nature Conservancy, the Water Funds Network (WFN) is now an ever-growing community of experts whowork to advance source water protection around the world, as well as other individuals interested in learning about the strategy, process, and benefits of protecting and restoring watersheds.

Water Action Hub

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The Water Action Hub raises awareness, catalyzes collaboration, and scales critical lessons on water sustainability and climate resilience around the world. The Water Action Hub is a global online collaboration and knowledge sharing platform for water sustainability and climate resilience, developed by the CEO Water Mandate.

Green-grey CoP

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The Global Green-Gray Community of Practice, created in 2020, is an international working group that offersregular opportunitiesto connect with other members, guidance documents, webinars and interactive working sessionswith relevant sub-committees.

Regional Networks

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ThinkNature is an EU-focused multi-stakeholder communication hub and knowledge sharing community for all things Nature-Based Solutions. It is meant to promote a continuous dialogue on NbS by steering dialogue, promoting case success stories, identifying technical & regulatory barriers, and foster collaboration at local, national & EU levels.

‘Naturefor Water’ Technical Assistance Facility

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The Nature for Water Facility is a dedicated team of experts that provides consultancy-style support to assist local clients in building and operationalizing watershed investment program. Launched in early 2022 and co-founded by TNC and Pegasys, the services it provides include pre-feasibility analysis, ROI + business case evaluation, strategy formulation, and monitoring & evaluation design, among others. The Facility offers semi-annual ‘Sponsored’ disbursement windows where support is awarded based on call for proposals format; it can also be engaged directly on a fee-for-service consultancy basis

WaterProof Case Support

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For users of the WaterProof platform seeking assistance with loading data, iterating scenarios, or interpreting results, members of the TNC WaterProof team are available to provide hand-in-hand support. For assistance please reach out directly to casesupport@water-proof.org with a brief description of your case and support needs.

Knowledge Hub: Water Funds Toolbox

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Water Funds are organizations that take collective action to help address water insecurity though investments in nature-based solutions. The Water Funds Toolbox has been developed by Water Funds experts to help leaders like you succeed in developing Water Funds or other watershed investment programs by providing guidance and cases studies in an easy to access format. Go here to access the Water Funds Field Guide or see a map of current Water Funds around the world

Initiative: CEO Water MandateNbS Benefit Accounting

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Benefit Accounting of Nature-based Solutions for Watersheds is an ongoing initiative that has developed a standardized method to account for the stacked water and carbon benefits, and identify wider co-benefits of NbS for watersheds. This project page provides links to aLandscape Assessment, Methodological Guide and a user-friendly tool to identify and account for the co-benefits of NbS for water security.

Book: NbS and Water Security

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Nature-based Solutions and Water Security presents an action agenda for natural infrastructure on topics such asstandards and principles, technical evaluation and design tools, capacity building and innovative finance.
Chapters introduce the concepts of naturalinfrastructure, or nature-based solutions (NbS) and water security, and present the community of practice’s collective thinking on a prioritized action agenda to guide more rapid progress in mainstreaming NbS.

Report: UN World Water Development–NbS for Water

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UN World Water Development Report on Nature-based Solutions for Water, published in 2018, demonstrates how nature‐based solutions (NbS) offer a vital means of moving beyond business‐as‐usual to address many of the world’s water challenges while simultaneously delivering additional benefits vital to all aspects of sustainable development.

Initiative: Oxford NbS Initiative

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The Oxford Nature-based Solutions Initiative is an interdisciplinary program based at the University of Oxford to enhance understanding of the potential of Nature-based Solutions to address multiple global challenges and support their sustainable implementation worldwide. The initiative focuses on cutting edge-resources, training and policy work, and offers a number of on the ground NbS case studies

Knowledge Hub: IUCN NbS Website

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The IUCN Nature-based Solutions website offers a variety of information and resources about nature-based solutions, including a global standard and access to a number of NbS tools.