Partnerships and Programs

As the World Bank recognizes the synergies and complementarities existing in water supply and sanitation (WSS), it has developed several central partnership programs. In addition, the World Bank is increasingly working with partners from multilateral and bilateral agencies, but also those within civil society and the private sector at the global, regional and country levels. 

	The Water and Sanitation Programis an international partnership administered by the World Bank of leading development agencies concerned with improving sector policies, practices, and capacities to serve poor people.
	The International Benchmarking Networksupports and promotes good benchmarking practice among water and sanitation services worldwide. IBNET provides a means and a set of tools for water and sanitation utilities to develop national or regional groupings
	The Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership (BNWP) is a program to improve delivery of WSS services to the poor. BNWP supports a broad sector reform agenda with a strong poverty focus. Learn More: The Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership: Creating Knowledge on Water Supply and Sanitation Reforms: An overview of BNWP knowledge products. (82mb pdf). 2006.

Other global programs in the water supply and sanitation sector include Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA), Cities Alliance, and the Norwegian Trust Fund for Private Sector and Infrastructure (NTF-PSI).