Water and Poverty The Themes: A Collection of Thematic Papers
T he Global Water Partnership (GWP) has prepared a background paper addressing this theme entitled Poverty Reduction and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The basic premise of the paper is that, in order to construct water management policies and institutions so that the interests of poor people are not only protected but also treated as a priority, it will be necessary to adopt IWRM as the underlying principle of water governance1 .
Asian Development Bank. 2004. Water and Poverty The Themes: A Collection of Thematic Papers. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2462. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.