Mercy Dikito-Wachtmeister

Mercy Dikito-Wachtmeister is a senior Network Officer of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) organisation, who is responsible for working with GWP-Caribbean, GWP-Southeast Asia and South Asia. As Network Officer, she acts as the link between the regions and the GWP Secretariat in Stockholm and works at the interface of the global and regional levels and is also a resource person who responds to the needs emerging in the regions.

Mercy Dikito-Wachtmeister holds a PhD in Political Sociology of Water Resources Management from Bradford University in the United Kingdom. Her interests link theoretical and methodological advances with practical policy application. She has pursued them both through many years of practical work in the field, research and consultancy. The themes of her research theorise institutions, collective action and participatory natural resource management and  water governance, understanding gendered livelihoods and access to (or exclusion from) natural resources and the interrelated themes of individual agency and social capital. 

She also holds a postgraduate Diploma in Research. She sits on the Stockholm Junior Water Prize International Committee and is an ambassador for "The Agricultural Water Management Solutions Project" coordinated by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI)- Colombo. The project seeks to identify promising investment options in smallholder agricultural water interventions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mercy Dikito-Wachtmeister has been with the GWP organisation for nine (9) years.She was born in Zimbabwe and now resides in Sweden.