An integral activity of the IPTRID Secretariat is to pursue and develop strong partnerships with funding institutions and governments. During the Programme’s existence, it has received support from more than 20 international organizations and government agencies, and has cooperated with more than 60 organizations in about 40 developing countries and countries in transition.
In 2004, the main donors involved were:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO, UN
The World Bank - WB
International Fund for Agricultural Development - IFAD
Department for International Development - DFID, UK
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - DGIS, Netherlands
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - MAE, France
Ministry of Agriculture - MAAPAR, France
Ministry of Agriculture - MAPA, Spain
Today, the network counts among its members a number of centres of excellence such as:
FAO, (both donor & partner)
ICID
IWMI
HR-Wallingford (UK)
Alterra- ILRI (The Netherlands)
Cemagref (France)
IAM-Bari (Italy)
DGDR-MAPA (Spain)
NWRC (Egypt)
ICWC Interstate Coordination Water Commission (Aral Sea Basin)
EIER-ETSHER (West Africa)
Brace Center for Water Management (Canada)
Global Water Partnership (GWP)
The Programme Manager is responsible for establishing contacts with potential donors and keeping relations with current ones. In this endeavour he also gets support through FAO donor relations arrangements. Fund raising is crucial and time consuming activity of the Secretariat. At the moment, exploratory contacts are being made with the Governments Canada and Switzerland. Other potential donors under consideration are Japan, Germany, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.
