Mission and Vision

Our Mission

The mission of INWRDAM is to foster closer cooperation among the countries of the Muslim Ummah in the field of development and management of water resources. In pursuit of this mission, it seeks to generate ideas and policy directions through intensive dialogue, studies and research on a continuing basis. The primary objectives of INWRDAM are as follows:

• to collaborate and cooperate in the areas of common interest with a view to help each other in building up the national capability of its member States in the field of integrated water resources development and management for overall economic development;
• to exchange knowledge and information, share experiences and maintain continuing dialogue related to water resources development and management in the Ummah countries;
• to set up and maintain a data bank relating to water resources development and management for use of its member States taking into account national interests of the member countries;
• to initiate demand driven and need based joint projects of research and development (R&D) and help its member States in the training of quality manpower and render consultancy and advisory services for water resources development and management;
• to maintain liaison and develop partnership with other similar organizations of the world.

Our Vision

INWRDAM envisions:

a) To have all the OIC countries as members in the Network;

b) To make its mark in the global arena as the representative organization of the Ummah and make meaningful contributions in all important regional and global deliberations on water resources development and management;

c) To establish and maintain an effective network of communication amongst the Ummah countries for dissemination and sharing of knowledge on water management between individuals, institutions, agencies and societies at all appropriate levels;

d) To help further advance the process of collaboration among the Ummah countries in order to translate agreed water management principles into action, based on the guidelines established by the Quran and sunnah with partnerships and synergies among the government, citizens and other stakeholders;

e) To work closely with the multilateral institutions, particularly the UN system to strengthen water-related policies and programs that enhance water security and to assist member countries, to the extent possible, to address the major challenges in the water sector;

f) To help policy makers, organizations, individuals in the member States appreciate that:

• Water is the basis for all living ecosystems and habitats and part of an immutable hydrological cycle that must be respected if the development of human activity and well being is to be sustainable,
• Fresh water, a basic human need, is becoming increasingly scarce and needs to be managed efficiently for the sake of all,
• A holistic, systematic approach relying on integrated water resources management must replace the current fragmentation in managing water. This should take account of social, economic and environmental factors and integrate surface water, groundwater and the ecosystems through which they flow,
• For meaningful water management special attention should be paid to the poor, to the role, skills and needs of women and to vulnerable areas such as island States, landlocked countries and desertified areas,
• Effective management of water could become a vehicle for collaboration as much as its absence could be a source of conflict,
• Quantity and quality aspects of groundwater management will be as crucial as surface water management in the years ahead,
• Integrated water resources management depends on collaboration and partnerships at all levels, based on a political commitment to, and wider societal awareness of the need for water security and the sustainable management of water resources,
• Promotion of peaceful co-operation and development of synergies between different uses of water at all levels, whenever possible, within and in the case of boundary and trans-boundary water resources between States concerned, through sustainable river basin or aquifer management or other appropriate measures which are essential to provide security from floods, droughts, pollution and other water related hazards.