Northern partners
IRC collaborates with other sector institutions and organisations in the Netherlands and other countries in Europe and North America in a variety of joint activities, including information sharing, publishing and capacity building.
Global Water Partnership (GWP)
Sweden
GWP aims to support high quality, integrated activities at country level and, at the international level, to bring a global learning perspective to these activities. A Technical Advisory Committee is charged with ensuring that programmes follow the principles agreed at the Dublin and Rio conferences in 1992. The GWP has close links with the World Water Council, drawing overall policy-guidance from the WWC and translating it into specific actions at country level.
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Netherlands
SNV is a non-profit, international development organisation, established in the Netherlands in 1965. They have been present on the ground in developing countries for over 40 years, and now operate in 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Balkans. SNV’s 900 advisors in the field come from a variety of cultural and technical backgrounds, and over 60 per cent are nationals of the countries where they work.
HR Wallingford
United Kingdom
A company specialising in consultancy and research in civil engineering hydraulics and the water environment. Relevant fields include environment (water resources management) and industry (water supply). Site also available in Spanish, Italian and French.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
United Kingdom
An international centre for research training in public health and tropical medicine. Relevant departments include Infectious and Tropical Diseases Public and Health and Policy.
Natural Resources Institute (NRI)
United Kingdom
The emphasis is on capacity development in Southern institutions in pursuit of sustainable agriculture and natural resources management and empowering and engaging civil society in the fight against poverty, disease and malnutrition. Relevant areas include natural resource management (forests, wildlife, land and aquatic resources).
Programme Solidarité Eau (PSEau)
France
Member of the European Alliance of Resource Centres of the Streams of Knowledge's Network.
Site only available in french.
Swiss Centre for Development Cooperation in Technology and Management (SKAT)
Switzerland
A Swiss consultancy firm and sectoral documentation centre working internationally in the areas of Water and Sanitation, Architecture and Building, Transport Infrastructure, and Urban Development. Since 1978, SKAT has collected relevant information on appropriate technologies, documented lessons learned, and disseminated them. It is also a member of the European Alliance of Resource Centres of the Streams of Knowledge's Network.
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE)
Netherlands
UNESCO-IHE contributes to the education and training of professionals and builds the capacity of knowledge centres and other organisations in the fields of water, the environment and infrastructure in developing countries and countries in transition. Their Water Engineering Department carries out education, research and projects related to water resources assessment and control, water supply and irrigation, navigation and hydropower, river, port and coastal engineering and floods, droughts and pollution.
United Nations Children's Fund - Water, Environment and Sanitation (UNICEF WES)
United States
UNICEF has been involved in water, environment and sanitation (WES) issues since the 1960s. UNICEF has supported longer-term programming initiatives in some 90 countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas, to improve access to safe water and sanitation and to promote hygiene awareness. The web site includes news articles on WES, statistics, and resources, such as publications to download and fact sheets.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United States
UNDP's focus is on providing developing countries with knowledge-based consulting services and building national, regional and global coalitions for change. UNDP has six priority practice areas: democratic governance, poverty reduction, crisis prevention and recovery, energy and environment, information and communications technology and HIV/AIDS.
Site also available in Spanish and French.
