IWA Programme partners

African Water Association
AfWA is guided by the desire to promote the Drinking Water, Sanitation and Environment Sector in the interest of African peoples.
http://www.afwa-hq.org/fr/en/index.php

AIDIS - Interamerican Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Association
AIDIS is a non-profitable scientific civil society. It holds the main student and professional institutions of the Americas that are dedicated to environmental, sanitary and health preservation. http://www.aidis.org.br/htm/eng_htm/index_eng.html

EUREAU
EUREAU is the European federation of national associations of drinking water suppliers and waste water services. EUREAU gather 10.000 water & waste water utilities & operators across Europe that provide sustainable water services to around 405 million European citizens.
http://www.stilis.be/clients/eureau/index.php

Global Water Research Coalition (GWRC)
Twelve world leading research organisations have established an international water research alliance: the Global Water Research Coalition (GWRC). GWRC is a non-profit organisation that serves as the collaborative mechanism for water research. The product the GWRC offers its members is water research information and knowledge. GWRC is an affiliate organisation of IWA. www.globalwaterresearchcoalition.net

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
IADB is an international organization established and headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, in 1959 to support Latin American and Caribbean economic and social development and regional integration. IWA signed an agreement with IADB in 2009 which focused on four common areas of work: water operators partnerships; water safety plans; a rating system for water operators to assess and score water and sanitation utilities’ efficiency levels; and coordination at national and regional events. www.iucn.org

National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
NEERI provides leadership in environmental science and engineering for sustainable development in India. IWA and NEERI have been working cooperatively since 2008 in ways that bring NEERI scientists closer to IWA task forces and journals. www.neeri.res.in/

Partners for Water and Sanitation (PAWS)
PAWS is a not-for profit partnership that focuses on sharing technical expertise to build the capacity of the water and sanitation sector in Africa. IWA supports PAWS by networking suitable UK based expertise with experience to provide technical assistance in PAWS focus countries. www.partnersforwater.org/

Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is a policy institute that seeks sustainable solutions to the world’s escalating water crisis. SIWI manages projects, synthesises research and publishes findings and recommendations on current and future water, environment, governance and human development issues. IWA has a history of long collaboration with SIWI, primarily through the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, and helps to guide, shape and deliver large sections of the technical programme each year. www.siwi.org

UNESCO-IHE
The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education is an international institute for water education that was created in 2003 from the previous Institute of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering. IWA has a long standing working and cooperation arrangement with UNESCO-IHE, which now includes a joint focus on Water Supply and Sanitation Fellowships (established 2009). www.unesco-ihe.org/

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
UN-HABITAT is the United Nations agency for human settlements. IWA has an on-going work programme with UNHABITAT which focuses strongly on the Water Operators Partnerships programme (WOPs). www.unhabitat.org

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID is the United States federal government organization responsible for most non-military foreign aid. IWA works both with relevant programmes of USAID in the Middle East region and in East Asia Pacific through USAID ECO-Asia programme on WaterLinks (www.waterlinks.org). www.usaid.gov

UNWATER
UNWATER is a mechanism of the United Nations, endorsed in 2003, to support states in their water related efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals. UNWATER strengthens coordination and coherence among UN agencies and partners relating to all aspects of freshwater and sanitation. IWA participates as a partner organisation in UNWATER and has served on various task groups, including Indicators and Monitoring. www.unwater.org

Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)
WSUP supports local service providers around the world to deliver affordable and sustainable water and sanitation services to poor people in urban communities of developing countries. Since 2005, IWA has been involved as an ‘observer’ to the WSUP Board of Directors, and has latterly been engaged in networking members with an interest in undertaking technical missions in WSUP projects. www.wsup.com

Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
WEDC is one of the world's leading education and research institutes for developing knowledge and capacity in water and sanitation for low- and middle-income countries. IWA and WEDC signed a cooperative agreement during 2009 which governs a range of activities, including: reciprocal arrangements in relation to events and conferences; work on water quality monitoring through World Water Monitoring Day; and participation in relevant IWA task forces. http://wedc.lboro.ac.uk/

Water Environment Federation (WEF)
The Water Environment Federation is a not-for-profit association that provides technical education and training for thousands of water quality professionals who clean water and return it safely to the environment.
http://www.wef.org/

Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
WSSCC is an international organization administered by UNOPS and with its secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a global multi-stakeholder partnership organization that works to improve the lives of poor people by enhancing collaboration among sector agencies and professionals around sanitation and water supply. Through this work it contributes to the broader goals of poverty eradication, health and environmental improvement, gender equality and long-term social and economic development. IWA is involved in the governance of WSSCC through its steering committee and works jointly within the framework of its urban sanitation and climate change working groups. www.wsscc.org/

World Bank
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It is made up of two unique development institutions owned by 186 member countries—the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). IWA has been working closely with the water team at the World Bank over several years, on issues relating to utilities, sanitation options, performance indicators and benchmarking and in supporting the World Bank water week.

World Health Organisation (WHO)
WHO is a specialised agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on public health. IWA is an NGO in official relations with the agency, and has a rolling two year programme of work focused on: drinking water quality guidelines; water safety planning; operation and maintenance; household water treatment and storage; disaster risk management and publications such as the Journal of Water and Health. www.who.int

World Water Council (WWC)
The World Water Council aims to promote awareness, build political commitment and trigger action on critical water issues at all levels, including the highest decision making level, to facilitate the efficient management and use of water in all its dimensions and on an environmentally sustainable basis. IWA was one of the founding members of WWC, and in recent years has taken a strong role in helping to shape and direct the technical programme at the triennial World Water Forums. www.worldwatercouncil.org