The Arab Watch Reports 2025: The Right to Water and Climate Change

The Arab Watch Report 2025 on the Right to Water and Climate Change (AWR) is the seventh edition of ANND’s flagship civil society–led monitoring report on economic and social rights in the Arab region, focusing on the right to water, with a dedicated sub-theme on climate change.

The report adopts a human rights–based and political economy framework that moves beyond technical narratives of scarcity to examine how public policies, governance models, power relations and development paradigms shape access to water and sanitation, particularly for marginalized groups. Produced through a participatory and consultative process with CSOs, researchers, and communities, the AWR 2025 includes national reports, case studies, and thematic papers from 13 Arab countries, using a mixed-methods approach that integrates legal and policy analysis, socio-economic assessment, historical review, and qualitative evidence. It analyzes water governance failures, legal pluralism, privatization and commodification trends, the role of international development actors, and the growing impacts of climate change, while exploring intersections between the right to water and agriculture, energy, hydro-hegemony, climate adaptation, and social movements.

The report aims to assess current public policies related to the right to water in Arab countries, identify shared structural and context-specific challenges, and formulate actionable, rights-based recommendations to support civil society advocacy and advance equitable, sustainable, and accountable water governance in line with international human rights standards.

This page brings together the regional report, a series of national reports, thematic papers, and case studies, offering grounded perspectives from different Arab countries and contexts. While a number of reports are already available, the remaining publications will be uploaded progressively as they are finalized, reflecting an ongoing collective research and documentation process.

National Reports

Case Studies