Stockholm World Water Week 2026 | Water for People and Progress
ALTAMIRA Regenerative Finance is proud to co-convene the Scientific Programme Committee Seminar Series on Mobilising Finance for Water Security together with WASTE Foundation and the Humanitarian Innovative Finance Hub (HIFHUB).
As climate change, water insecurity, and growing financing gaps increasingly affect communities worldwide, there is an urgent need to rethink how investments for water security are originated, structured, financed, and implemented.
This three-part seminar series brings together development finance institutions, public and private investors, utilities, humanitarian organizations, development agencies, commercial banks, and implementation partners to explore practical pathways for mobilising finance at scale while ensuring investments remain inclusive, climate-resilient, and responsive to local needs.
The series adopts a systems approach to investment planning and financing, emphasizing the importance of aligning actors, incentives, institutions, and financial instruments throughout the investment cycle—from enabling environments and project preparation to financial structuring, implementation, and accountability.
Seminar 7.1
Aligning Actors and Capital to Structure Investable Water Systems
24 August 2026 | Onsite
This interactive workshop explores how governments, development partners, private investors, humanitarian actors, utilities, and communities can work together to transform strategic plans into investment-ready portfolios.
Drawing on practical experiences from fragile contexts, public investment planning, and collective water stewardship initiatives, participants will examine how blended finance, partnership design, and systems-oriented planning can help unlock resilient and equitable water investments.
Seminar 7.2
Unlocking Private Investment for Climate-Resilient Water Systems
25 August 2026 | Online
This session focuses on how blended finance, climate finance, and innovative risk-sharing mechanisms can mobilise greater private sector investment for adaptation and water security.
Through perspectives from development finance institutions, private sector leaders, humanitarian organizations, and implementation partners, participants will explore practical approaches for reducing investment risks and creating enabling conditions for long-term climate resilience.
Seminar 7.3
Rethinking Investment Origination: A Mission-Driven Approach to Investment Planning
26 August 2026 | Hybrid
The final seminar explores how investment planning can move beyond isolated projects toward mission-driven and portfolio-based approaches capable of addressing systemic challenges.
Drawing on experiences from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and fragile contexts, speakers will discuss how collective intelligence, systems thinking, and cross-sector collaboration can strengthen investment readiness and support long-term water security and climate resilience.
Why This Matters
Water security sits at the intersection of climate adaptation, public health, economic development, food systems, biodiversity, and social equity. Yet financing remains fragmented and insufficient to meet growing needs.
Through this seminar series, we aim to contribute to a broader shift—from financing individual projects to building the partnerships, institutions, and investment ecosystems capable of delivering resilient and regenerative water systems at scale.
We look forward to continuing the conversation with partners and practitioners from across the water, climate, humanitarian, development, and finance communities during Stockholm World Water Week 2026.
Featured Regional Dialogue
Designing Systemic Progress in Water Security for Latin America and the Caribbean
27 August 2026 | Stockholm World Water Week
Co-convened by: We Are Water Foundation, ALTAMIRA Regenerative Finance, Grupo Rotoplas, Rainforest Flow, and Stockholm Environment Institute.
This regional dialogue brings together organizations working across Latin America and the Caribbean to explore how the region can move beyond isolated projects toward integrated approaches that connect water service delivery, watershed governance, climate adaptation, and long-term resilience.
Bringing together foundations, NGOs, corporations, development banks, impact investors, and regional institutions, the session will examine how evolving roles, innovative partnerships, and emerging financing opportunities can accelerate systemic progress in water security.
Discussions will focus on collective action, enabling conditions for investment, governance innovation, and the financing mechanisms required to support water security at scale. Participants will reflect on lessons emerging from across the region and explore how new forms of collaboration can help bridge the gap between local implementation challenges and basin-scale transformation.
The session highlights the region’s growing shift toward integrated water systems that connect people-centered service delivery with basin-scale governance, structural transformation, climate adaptation, and long-term resilience.
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Systems thinking for regenerative finance
