Water Partnership Program
The Program
The Water Partnership Program (WPP) is a multi-donor trust fund established in 2009 and administered by the World Bank’s Water Unit in the Sustainable Development Network. The WPP consolidates two previous programs, the Bank-Netherlands Water Program in Supply and Sanitation (BNWP) and the Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership Program in Water Resource (BNWPP) into an improved realignment and restructuring of these programs.
The Program is funded by the governments of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Denmark, for a total contribution of $23.7 million.
The WPP aims to strengthen the World Bank’s efforts in reducing poverty through improved water resources management and water service delivery. More specifically, it helps enhance the design and implementation of World Bank operations through analytical work, capacity building, innovation and knowledge dissemination. It can fund activities in all World Bank client countries and on all water areas, such as Water Resources Management, Water Supply and Sanitation, Irrigation and Drainage, Water for Energy, and Environmental Services. These activities directly support Bank projects through mobilizing strategic and practical expertise and implementing innovative approaches that strengthen project quality. They also emphasize sharing best practices and lessons learned that could stimulate innovative performance in water-related operations.
Now in its third year of implementation, the WPP is supporting more than a third of all Bank analytical work and is maximizing the impact of about $8 billion in World Bank lending across 55 countries.
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Responding to the New, Global Challenges in Water
The global water landscape is changing and countries must be ready to respond effectively to the new challenges it brings. A growing population, increased urbanization and burgeoning industry are spurring greater demand for water to produce food and energy, within the backdrop of a changing climate.
Conventional responses and thinking are often no longer adequate to address these challenges. Robust solutions require innovative tools, new technologies, better information, and stronger institutions, and more capacities. As the largest provider of water-related financial and technical assistance globally, the World Bank recognizes that this will require scaling up innovative and complex projects. Lending instruments will need to be designed to incorporate cross-cutting themes and climate considerations to provide solutions. The WPP has established itself as one of the World Bank’s most important tools for bringing these solutions to the forefront of the global water practice.
Jose Luis Irigoyen, Director, TWI, Sustainable Development Network
WPP Annual Report 2010: "Driving Change in Water"
The WPP 2010 Annual Report provides an overview of the Program’s accomplishments and outlines its future direction. The report provides examples of how the WPP enables the Bank to respond to the emerging needs of its client countries and bring innovative solutions and transformative knowledge to help them resolve complex water challenges. The Bank is grateful to the WPP donors—the governments of The Netherlands, Great Britain, and Denmark—who have contributed more than $23 million to the Program, enabling us to reach 55 countries and benefit the lives of nearly 37 million people. Download Driving Change in Water
Program Structure
WPP activities are coordinated through nine “programmatic windows”: six regional windows managed by the regional water units, a Global Window implemented by the Water Anchor, a World Bank Institute (WBI) window, and the Expert Services Window, consisting of three Expert Support Teams (ESTs) sub-windows managed in the Water Anchor (the ESTs include GW-MATE, HEF & SWAT). Recently, Donors have agreed to merge the three ESTs into a unified unit (Water Expert Support Team) that will be managed through a single window. It is expected that this will lead to a more responsive structure, efficient and streamlined administration and more flexibility.
As WPP is a World Bank executed trust fund, only World Bank Task Managers with TLAP accreditation are eligible to apply for WPP funding. Information on the operational modalities for applying for funding can be found on the Bank's internal SCOOP network. Please contact the Water Helpdesk for further assistance with applications.
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