The World Bank administers several global partnership programs in the water sector. These programs share best practices across regions and have a strong focus on capacity building. Some mobilize practical expertise and implement innovative approaches at critical stages of the Bank's project preparation and implementation cycle, while others work directly with client governments and other stakeholders.

Current Programs

Â	The Water and Sanitation Program is an international partnership, administered by the World Bank, of leading development agencies concerned with improving sector policies, practices, and capacities to serve poor people.Â
 Â	The Water Partnership Program is a Multi-Donor Trust Fund with the goal of enhancing the World Bank’s efforts in reducing poverty through two overarching objectives: a) the sponsorship and mainstreaming of pragmatic and principled approaches for water resources management and development; and b) the improvement of the quality and effectiveness of water service delivery.

Special Initiatives 

As part of its global programs, the Bank carries out special initiatives on certain water topics that do not get the attention they deserve.

World Bank Cross-Sectoral programs

A number of other (cross-sectoral) World Bank programs also include activites in the water sector:

 Closed Programs

 Â	The Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership—Water Supply and Sanitation was a program to improve delivery of WSS services to the poor. It supported a broad sector reform agenda with a strong poverty focus.
	The Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership Program—Water Resources sought to improve water security, and thereby contributed to poverty reduction, by promoting innovative approaches to integrated water resources management.