4. Resources

The TOP is completed with a very extensive list of resources, covering:

• Books, articles and papers
• Web sites
• Contacts
• Courses, conferences and research programmes.

In this Summary, we will only include relevant web sites, listed in alphabetical order with a brief description.

Building Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation
www.bpdws.org
BPD Water and Sanitation is an international cross-sector learning network focused on improving access to safe water and effective sanitation in poor communities. Their web site contains practitioner notes and other reports and documents on partnerships.

Cap-Net (Capacity Building Network for Integrated Water Resources Management)
www.Cap-Net.org
Cap-Net is an international network addressing capacity building in Integrated Water Resources Management. It links hundreds of capacity building institutions and individuals across the world and offers the opportunity for coordinated and sustained capacity development. After establishing a network of capacity building institutions across the world they now give greater emphasis to the delivery of capacity building.

CSD Partnerships Database
http://webapps01.un.org/dsd/partnerships/search/browse.do
An interactive database of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) with information on partnerships which contribute to sustainable development.

Development FORUM ‘Partnering with Civil Society’
www.worldbank.org/devforum/forum_civsoc.html
The Development Forum is an electronic venue for dialogue and knowledge-sharing on key issues and challenges facing the development community and the world's poor. Particular emphasis is placed on learning from the experience of those who face these challenges in their daily lives. With the Forum ‘Partnering with Civil Society’ communication between NGOs/Civil Society and other stakeholders interested in improving the quality of development partnerships around the world is facilitated by sharing knowledge, experiences and lessons from practice and promoting e.g. discussions on mechanisms, structures, tools, and instruments for building development partnerships.

Gender and Water Alliance (GWA)
www.genderandwateralliance.org
The Gender and Water Alliance is a network of 300 organisations and individuals from around the world with an independent steering committee. Research and practical experience from the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) have demonstrated that effective, efficient and equitable water resources management is only achieved when both women and men are involved in integrated water resource management.

The GWA offers a mix of information and knowledge sharing activities such as electronic conferencing, a web site, advocay leaflets and video, annual reports, capacity building and pilot programmes.

Global Action Network Net
www.gan-net.net
GAN-Net’s mission is to strengthen the capacity of multi-sector, global networks to address urgent sustainability issues – social, economic, and environmental. Its strategy is to do this by coordinating events that connect leaders in the field and promote learning, innovation, and attention to what GANs are accomplishing worldwide on a range of crucial issues.

Global Water Partnership, GWP
www.gwpforum.org
The Global Water Partnership 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.

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
www.irc.nl/content/view/full/7979
IRC facilitates the sharing, promotion and use of knowledge so that governments, professionals and organisations can better support poor men, women and children in developing countries to obtain water and sanitation services they will use and maintain.

INTRAC NGO Partnerships
http://www.intrac.org/Intrac/NGOPartnerships_en.html
INTRAC has carried out research into the concept and practice of NGO partnerships. The research analysed and compared the views and operational practices of European and Southern NGOs separately. The web site gives a summary of the recent research outcomes and links to relevant publications.

Netherlands Water Partnership, NWP
www.nwp.org
NWP is an independent body set up jointly by the Dutch private and public sectors to act as a national coordination and information point in relation to water activities overseas. The main aims of the NWP are to harmonize the activities and initiatives of the Dutch water sector overseas and to undertake worldwide promotion of Dutch expertise related to activities and services of government bodies, knowledge and research institutes and businesses involved in the water sector.

The Partnering Initiative
www.thepartneringinitiative.org
Established in January 2004, The Partnering Initiative is a global programme of the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) in association with The University of Cambridge Programme for Industry. It focuses on developing and disseminating and methodologies for developing effective cross sector partnerships for sustainable development and provide tailored learning programmes, professional skills development, partner review and evaluation, action research. The Partnering Initiative also provides support and advisory services that help to build capacity for effective collaboration for sustainable development.

Partnerships Online
www.partnerships.org.uk/part/index.htm
This web site covers the processes of community participation, and building partnerships between different interests, both 'real world' and online.

Public Private Partnerships for Water and Sanitation
www.partnershipsforwater.net/
Two Swiss government agencies, SDC and seco, and the global reinsurer Swiss Re have established a joint initiative "Public-Private Partnerships for Water Supply and Sanitation" to assist improving the performance of the water sector (especially in developing countries and countries in transition) by proposing formal approaches for Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). The web site contains background information on the initiative and the development process of the instruments, references to other supportive materials and contact information.

The Seed Initiative
www.seedinit.org
The Seed Initiative (Supporting Entrepreneurs in Environment and Development) aims to inspire, support and build the capacity of locally-driven entrepreneurial partnerships to contribute to the delivery of the Millennium Development Goals and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.

Streams of Knowledge (SOK)
www.streamsofknowledge.net
Global coalition of resource centres in the water and sanitation sector. Organisations that work on water and sanitation issues and wish to broaden their approach will be supported to become resource centres. (Regional) Networks are being developed to help resource centres to validate the quality of their work, improve the relevance of their output and create conditions to exchange good practice.

UNDP Public-Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE)
http://www.undp.org/ppp/
UNDPs Public-Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE) facility supports the development of innovative partnerships between public and private actors at the local level. Focusing on assisting small and medium-sized cities, PPPUE works with all potential stakeholders, including investors, providers, regulators, users, and experts to meet the challenge of providing basic urban environmental services. Its services include:

• Innovative Partnership Grants (IPG): IPGs are awarded on a competitive basis to reward innovative projects in support of PPPs at the local level.
• Global Learning Network (GLN):The GLN provides an international forum for institutions and individuals involved in the design of PPP policies and projects.

UNESCO-IHE Partnership for Water Education & Research (PoWER)
www.unesco-ihe.org/power
The Partnership for Water Education & Research (PoWER) strives to create a pre-eminent network of autonomous collaborating centres in all regions of the developing world, for the research into and the dissemination of all aspects of integrated and sustainable management of water and environmental resources and services. The Partnership will provide demand-responsive and duly accredited postgraduate education, research and capacity building services to individuals and organisations throughout the developing world. One of the major goals of the Partnership is to empower local and regional capacities in the developing world. The shaping of an appropriate technical information and communication infrastructure to reach that goal is part of the Partnership project.

Water Partnership Council
www.waterpartnership.org
The Water Partnership Council seeks to promote sustainable water quality in the United States. Its members are water and wastewater services experts. The Council seeks to partner with those citizens, local governments, and organizations committed to strengthening the national water and wastewater infrastructure. The Council is focusing on public-private partnerships.

Waternet
www.waternetonline.ihe.nl
WaterNet is a regional network in Southern Africa of university departments and research and training institutes specialising in water. The Mission of WaterNet is to enhance regional capacity in Integrated Water Resources Management through training, education, research and outreach by sharing the complementary expertise of its members.