Partners for Water Programme:
Springboard for international ambitions
The Netherlands has a solid reputation in water management. To support the Dutch water sector to capitalise on its technologies and expertise internationally, but also to ensure that Dutch technologies and knowledge contribute to solving world water challenges, the ‘Partners for Water’ programme was established in 2000.
The Partners for Water programme provides support to Dutch water sector organisations, profit and non-profit, that work together to realise their international objectives in the field of water. Partners for Water acts as a stepping stone for Dutch organisations that have the ambition to venture abroad and promote a new Dutch technology or approach.
The programme has its focus at the heart of the Dutch water sector – organisations from within the water sector work together in the programme, helping to give it shape.
The programme supports projects and activities in 26 target countries:
Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and South-Africa
In the third Partners for Water programme period (2010-2015) extra attention is given to 5 countries with similar delta’s as The Netherlands. These are: Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Mozambique and Vietnam. The focus on these ‘delta countries’ is based on chapter 6 of the Dutch National Water Plan, the formal water policy of The Netherlands. The Dutch government intends to develop long-term collaborations with these delta countries based on knowledge exchange and applying Dutch water related knowledge in delta challenges.
