The CEO Water Mandate

Name

The CEO Water Mandate

Legal name

CEO Water Mandate

Website

https://ceowatermandate.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The CEO Water Mandate is a UN-backed special initiative established in 2007 that provides corporate water stewardship frameworks, tools, and collaboration platforms to 634+ endorsing companies addressing water scarcity, quality, governance, and access challenges globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Water Stewardship Services

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241)

SIC

International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro primary industry

Water Resources, WASH & Integrated Water Management (BPADALAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Water Resources Administration (Watersheds, Rivers, Groundwater) (BPAIAMAE), Water Resources & Watershed Protection (BPAGAGAK), Energy & Water Efficiency Programs (Corporate Resource Management) (EUAHAJAG)

Keywords

• Corporate water stewardship
• Water sustainability frameworks
• Water risk management
• ESG water reporting
• WASH corporate initiatives

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Endorser Membership Contributions: Annual financial contributions are required from all CEO Water Mandate Endorsers. The specific contribution amounts are not publicly disclosed on the website.
2. UN Global Compact Partnership: The mandate operates as a special initiative under the UN Global Compact, with the Pacific Institute as a founding partner. Funding comes from these institutional partnerships and endorser contributions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The CEO Water Mandate is a UN-backed special initiative that provides corporate water stewardship frameworks, digital tools, and collaborative platforms for companies to manage water risks across their operations, supply chains, and communities. It offers a portfolio of proprietary assessment frameworks (WRAF, NPWI, WASH Benefits Accounting), digital resource libraries (Water Stewardship Toolbox with 564+ resources), and a collaboration platform (Water Action Hub with 2,103 projects), supported by industry coalitions including the Water Resilience Coalition.

Product overview

The CEO Water Mandate is a UN-backed special initiative offering a portfolio of digital platforms, frameworks, and collaborative programs for corporate water stewardship. Its core offerings include the Water Stewardship Toolbox (a resource library with 500+ resources), the Water Action Hub (collaboration platform), and the Water Resilience Coalition (CEO-led industry initiative). Supporting frameworks include the Water Resilience Assessment Framework (WRAF), Net Positive Water Impact (NPWI), WASH4Work, NBS Benefits Explorer, and the WASH Benefits Accounting Framework. The initiative also runs the 100 Basins Movement targeting 100 priority basins by 2030. These products work together to provide companies with resources, assessment tools, partnership opportunities, and commitment frameworks for advancing water stewardship across operations, supply chains, and communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Water Resilience Coalition (WRC): A CEO-led, industry-driven initiative to reduce water stress by 2050, working toward collective positive water impact in 100 priority basins.
• WASH4Work
• Water Action Hub
• Water Stewardship Toolbox
• Positive Water Impact (PWI)
• Net Positive Water Impact (NPWI)

Products and services

• Water Stewardship Toolbox A comprehensive digital resource library for companies and practitioners seeking tools, guidance, case studies, and datasets for corporate water stewardship. Features 564+ resources from dozens of organizations, filterable by keyword, location, industry sector, and topic.
• Water Action Hub An online water stewardship knowledge-sharing and collaboration platform that facilitates project development and partnership building. Hosts 2,103 projects enabling companies to discover and join water stewardship initiatives and find partners for collective action.
• Water Resilience Assessment Framework (WRAF) A framework for assessing water resilience across operations and basins, with specific guidance for water utilities and basin managers. Helps practitioners navigate resilience-building in the face of climate stressors and other uncertainties.
• Net Positive Water Impact (NPWI) An aspiration framework that addresses how companies manage water within their operations and interact with basins, ecosystems, and communities. Focuses on availability, quality, and accessibility dimensions of water stress, with the goal that companies' contributions continually exceed impacts on water stress.
• WASH Benefits Accounting Framework Framework designed to help companies calculate and communicate the socio-economic, environmental, and institutional benefits of investments in safely managed and climate-resilient WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) services.
• NBS Benefits Explorer A digital tool serving as a key starting point for organizations looking to invest in Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). Part of the Water Action Hub suite of tools for corporate water stewardship.
• Water Resilience Coalition A CEO-led, industry-driven initiative to reduce water stress by 2050. Coalition of 28 corporate members representing over US$3.5 trillion in market capitalization, working toward collective positive water impact in 100 priority basins.
• WASH4Work Initiative A multi-stakeholder initiative to mobilize business action on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in workplace operations, communities, and supply chains. Coalition of 20 global corporate leaders and over 300 WASH Pledge signatories.
• CEO Water Mandate Endorsement Program Formal corporate endorsement program requiring C-suite sign-off and annual financial contributions. Companies must be private sector with 10+ employees and UN Global Compact signatories within 6 months of joining. Includes access to all mandate frameworks, tools, and resources.

Quantifiable outcome

• 634 companies have endorsed the CEO Water Mandate
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core, supporting and flagship.

• UN Global CompactcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2007The UN Global Compact is the parent organization of the CEO Water Mandate, established in partnership with the UN Secretary-General in 2007. The mandate operates as a special initiative under UNGC, and all endorsers must become UNGC signatories within 6 months of joining.
• Pacific InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2007The Pacific Institute is the founding partner of the CEO Water Mandate, established alongside the UN Global Compact in 2007. The institute provides technical expertise and hosts the mandate secretariat, developing research, guidance, and tools for corporate water stewardship.
• World Resources Institute (WRI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWRI serves as a technical advisor to the Water Resilience Coalition and contributed to the development of NPWI framework. Companies use WRI's Aqueduct tool to identify and prioritize water-stressed basins.
• WWF (World Wildlife Fund)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWWF is a partner in the Corporate Guidance for Assessing Water Scopes initiative alongside WRI and the CEO Water Mandate, working to create common water reporting standards for companies.
• The Nature Conservancy (TNC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTNC is a technical advisor to the Water Resilience Coalition and contributed to developing the NPWI concept. TNC produces content on collective action and water funds for the Water Stewardship Toolbox.
• Water.orgcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWater.org serves as a technical advisor to the Water Resilience Coalition, bringing expertise in water access and sanitation solutions to the collective action initiatives.
• Ross StrategicsupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerRoss Strategic is a technical advisor to the Water Resilience Coalition, providing advisory services for water stewardship initiatives.
• PegasyssupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPegasys is a technical advisor to the Water Resilience Coalition, contributing expertise to the development and implementation of water resilience strategies.
• Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAWS and the CEO Water Mandate have published guidance on connections and compatibility between the AWS International Water Stewardship Standard and the Net Positive Water Impact (NPWI) ambition.
• World Economic ForumflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerWEF and the CEO Water Mandate collaborated on Blue Davos 2026 initiatives focused on water resilience, including the Water Resilience Challenge with HCL Group and UpLink, ahead of the UN Water Conference.
• WASH4Work Partner Organizations (14)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWASH4Work is supported by 14 WASH expert organizations that provide technical expertise for the initiative. The initiative also involves 20 global corporate leaders and 300+ WASH Pledge signatories.
• Water Action Hub PartnerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorVarious organizations collaborate through the Water Action Hub platform, contributing and accessing water stewardship projects and knowledge. The hub features 2103+ projects from multiple organizations.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• UN Global Compact: UN Global Compact is the parent initiative under which the Mandate operates and to which all endorsers must sign up. It is the parent program and adjacent ESG onboarding platform comparable in convening thousands of companies on sustainability.
• Pacific Institute: The founding partner of the Mandate, the Pacific Institute hosts the secretariat and co-produces research and frameworks. It is the closest enabling/administrative peer—the Mandate's institutional backbone and a producer of overlapping water-stewardship thought leadership.

Direct peers

• Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS): AWS is the most direct peer—a multi-stakeholder organization that develops and operates the AWS International Water Stewardship Standard. AWS and the Mandate publish joint guidance linking NPWI to the AWS Standard, overlapping heavily on corporate water stewardship frameworks and member companies.
• Water.org: Water.org is a technical advisor to the Water Resilience Coalition focused on WASH access. It is directly comparable as a multi-stakeholder initiative that mobilizes corporate funding and capability around water access and sanitation—the same core problem set as WASH4Work.

Broad incumbents

• The Nature Conservancy (TNC): TNC is a technical advisor to the Water Resilience Coalition, contributor to NPWI, and producer of Water Stewardship Toolbox content. As a science-driven NGO driving corporate collective-action water projects, it parallels the Mandate's convening role.
• World Resources Institute (WRI) — Aqueduct: WRI is both a core technical advisor to the Mandate and a developer of the Aqueduct water-risk tool used by corporates. It is comparable as a producer of authoritative water data, frameworks, and corporate guidance that underpin corporate water strategy.
• CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project): CDP runs the global Water Security disclosure questionnaire that thousands of corporates use for investor-grade water reporting. It competes for the same corporate ESG mindshare and increasingly partners with/overlaps the Mandate's framework ambitions.
• World Economic Forum (WEF) — Water Initiative: WEF co-convenes Blue Davos and the Water Resilience Challenge with the Mandate. As the leading multi-stakeholder platform convening governments and corporates on water, it is a comparable flagship convener and thought-leadership driver for global water agendas.
• WWF (World Wildlife Fund) — Water Risk Filter: WWF co-develops the Water Risk Filter with De Loitte and partners with the Mandate on the Water Scopes 1-3 Guidance. As a large environmental NGO providing corporate water assessment tools, it is a structurally comparable convener of corporate water action.

Emerging players

• Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi/SBTN): SBTN is extending science-based target-setting into water and nature, emerging as a potential standard-setter that will shape how corporates set water commitments. It overlaps with NPWI and WRAF as a forward-looking framework competitor for corporate water ambition.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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