| • | Principal government partners – working through the government focal points and National Programme Offices |
| • | Other government departments, institutes and agencies – working through departmental focal points and through contractual arrangements for specific pieces of work |
| • | Networking partnership with NGOs for information sharing, training and communication purposes |
| • | Participation of NGOs in the Regional Wetlands Coordination Forum |
| • | Co-financing partnerships in which the programme and NGOs work together to develop, raise funds for and implement sub-projects in line with the objectives of the programme and the partner organisation |
| • | Parallel partnerships in which the partner organisation (NGO or government) is carrying out activities that are directly in line with the programme objectives and outputs. The programme might provide staff-time to assist, would share information and would provide a route to decision makers through the Steering Committee structures. |
| • | Contractual partnerships in which the programme contracts a partner organisation to undertake specific pieces of work identified by the programme or by the partner, in line with programme objectives and outputs. |
