The World Bank's primary partners in development are its client country governments. However, in recent years, the Bank has also strengthened its policy dialogue and project performance by involving a broad range of public and private stakeholders in all aspects of its work, particularly on environmental issues.
The Bank has learned a vital lesson by strategically partnering with organizations that are equally rich in experience, or better placed to secure participation from in-country stakeholders and local communities. It has built and continues to strengthen partnerships with other multilateral development banks, United Nations agencies and bilateral donors, as well as with technically strong nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Â |
 | Carbon Finance: The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit's (CFU) initiatives are part of the larger global effort to combat climate change, and go hand in hand with the World Bank and its Environment Department 's mission to reduce poverty and improve living standards in the developing world. The CFU uses money contributed by governments and companies in OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries to purchase project-based greenhouse gas emission reductions in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. |
 | Clean Air Initiative: The Clean Air Initiative is a partnership that advances innovative ways to improve the air quality in cities around the world by sharing knowledge and experiences and facilitating technical assistance for clean air action planning. The World Bank hosts the Clean Air Initiative website and serves as an electronic operational center around which the partnership communicates. |
 | Conservation International-World Bank Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund: The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) advances global conservation so that the rich sources of biological diversity, the communities they comprise and the services they provide can be sustained. The Fund builds on the strengths of its investors: Conservation International, Global Environmental Facility's (GEF), MacArthur Foundation, and the World Bank. |
 | Global Environment Facility: The GEF is the financing mechanism for the key international environmental agreements. As a GEF implementing agency, the World Bank helps identify, prepare and implement projects that reduce poverty and benefit the local and global environment. |
| Global Partnership for Oceans: The Global Partnership for Oceans is a growing alliance of governments, international organizations, civil society groups, and private sector interests committed to addressing the threats to the health, productivity and resilience of the world’s oceans. |
 | Global Water Partnership: The Global Water Partnership (GWP) is a working partnership among all those involved in water management—government agencies, public institutions, private companies, professional organizations, multilateral development agencies and others committed to the Dublin-Rio principles. The World Bank designed the first electronic partnership forum for use by the GWP in 1997, and continues to support its mission.) |
 | Global Tiger Initiative: Partnering with the Global Environment Facility and others, the World Bank is working towards a world where, by 2020, wild tigers across Asia will no longer face the risk of extinction—and will live in healthy populations within high conservation value landscapes that are managed sustainably for present and future generations. |
 | International Coral Reef Initiative: The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) is a partnership among nations and organizations seeking to implement Chapter 17 of Agenda 21 (United Nations), and other international Conventions and agreements for the benefit of coral reefs and related ecosystems. The World Bank has been a charter member of ICRI and continues to provide significant support to the partnership. |
 | Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is a four-year international scientific assessment of the condition of Earth's ecosystems, potential impacts of changes to ecosystems on their ability to meet human needs, and policies, technologies, and tools to improve ecosystem management. The World Bank is one of the primary partners in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, providing both technical and analytical contributions. |
 | Montreal Protocol: The Multilateral Fund was created for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, becoming the first of the multilateral environmental agreements to establish a financial mechanism for implementation. The World Bank has developed a strong partnership with the Multilateral Fund (MLF) since its establishment in 1990. The Bank continues to assist the MLF to preserve human health and the environment by protecting the earth's stratospheric ozone layer. |
| Poverty-Environment Partnership (PEP) is an informal network of donor agencies, development banks, and NGOs. The main common interest among its participants is enhanced environmental management in the context of poverty reduction. There is no formal membership in PEP. Participants carry their own costs for participation.Hosting of meetings—held approximately every six months—is on a rotational basis. |
 | PROFOR is a multi-donor partnership managed by a core team at the World Bank. PROFOR finances forest-related analysis and processes that support the following goals: improving people’s livelihoods through better management of forests and trees; enhancing forest law enforcement and governance; financing sustainable forest management; and coordinating forest policy across sectors. In 2012, PROFOR’s donors included the European Union, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the World Bank. Follow us on twitter www.twitter.com/forestideas |
 | Save Our Species: A large fraction of life on earth is disappearing at a frightening rate, threatening the very basis of human economies, cultures and livelihods. Save Our Species is a program created by the Global Environmental Facility, the World Bank and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as a scalable response to a global natural emergency. |
 | Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services: The World Bank is taking a lead in making wealth accounting a reality in a number of countries with the 5-year global partnership on Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES). WAVES works to improve information available to decision makers in Ministries of Finance and Planning or in Central Banks by developing and implementing expanded measures of natural wealth. This provides countries with the tools they need to integrate the economic benefits of ecosystems such as forests and wetlands into their national accounting systems. |
 | World Bank Partnership on Combatting Desertification: The World Bank Partnership for Combating Desertification is financed to create enabling environments to implement the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) in developing countries affected by desertification. |
| World Commission on Dams: Pressing human development needs for electricity, water and food, and escalating confrontations over resources development have demanded an unprecedented global response by a multi-constituency forum. The World Commission on Dams (WCD) was created to resolve the high stakes conflict over how to develop water and energy resources. World Bank staff provided foundational support in the initial architecture of the WCD and continue active involvement in its overall mission. |
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