Cansu Global


Water for Sustainable Development Solutions



Cansu Global



Cansu Global is a nascent Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO) which responds to the call for accelerated implementation of the goals of the Water for Sustainable Development Action Decade. Its core philosophy is that only when applying a water lens to the global development challenges of our time, will we be able to overcome them.


Cansu Global started as a programme of the Royal Academy of Science International Trust (RASIT). In the Outcome Document of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February 2022), 53 UN member states, along with the African Union and the European Union, endorsed Cansu Global and its sustainable development agenda.



The Republic of Tajikistan is the Lead Country for the official formation of Cansu Global as an IGO.



On March 1st, 2023, Tajikistan hosted a briefing for member states, to introduce Cansu Global and call for countries’ endorsement of charter and Strategic Framework.



FACT SHEET



Cansu Global is:



a nascent Intergovernmental Organization bringing together the three critical solutions enablers (government, academia and private sector) in a constructive partnershipis.



developed by the Science community under the leadership of the Royal Academy of Science International Trust (RASIT) and adopted by the Government of Tajikistan to be transformed into and IGO.



builds on the lessons learnt during the United Nations ‘Water for Life’ Decade 2005-2015.



fosters the development and accelerated implementation of appropriate, holistic and scalable water-for-sustainable-development solutions that take both traditional knowledge and technical innovation into account.



follows the Principle of Subsidiarity by putting Communities (different types of human settlements, work environments, sociocultural and political environments etc.).



at the center of the action is a neutral interlocutor bridging across sectors and levels in society and has a solid financing and investment strategy.



The Organisation



Three Critical Enablers United in Cansu Global





The EMBLEM



Cansu’s Emblem is created with the inspiration of the Platonic Solids that are geometrically associated with the elements of air (octahedron) and water (icosahedron).

The main color blue is referring directly to the Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation). The aqua green is used as a reference to the air element.



The Creative Mind:

Cansu Global Emblem designed by Ms. NUR GÜLRU HÖYÜK KOÇOĞLU, a renowned Interdisciplinary Artist & Creative Philosopher.


LOGO COPYRIGHT STATEMENT

the name “Cansu” (originated from Anatolia and Pronounced as JUN-SU) was divined for this Global Program, which means Life is Water.



Cansu Global