For the implementation of projects WGC will collaborate with all relevant parties. For the applied scientifical projects these are the universities and knowledge institutes, the members of the Learning Table among others. Within these project consortia there is also room for the consultancies to safeguard practical application. That also holds for practice development projects, in which focus is on the consultancies and knowledge institutes. Being a non—profit knowledge organization, WGC adds additional value by stimulating the development of knowledge, by connecting knowledge, and by disseminating the added value.

Consortium partners:

• Association of Regional Water Authorities, STOWA, Fonds NWB, water boards and drinking water companies;
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, and/or the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment;
• Municipalities/VNG and provinces /IPO;
• Universities, among others those affiliated to the members of the Learning Table;
• Unesco/IHE and ITC Enschede;
• Deltares, Alterra and other knowledge institutes;
• Consultancies, organized through NLIngenieurs (Arcadis, Royal HaskoningDHV, among others);
• NWP, Partners for Water and Aqua for All;
• Institutes on global justice and governance (T.M.C. Asser Institute, Institute for Global Justice in formation, Institute Clingendael);
• Institutes for Higher Education;
• MIAWater partners (Building with Nature, Flood Control 2015, SBIR projects Water and climate, and Working Group for the Acceleration of Innovation).

Collaboration with other knowledge programmes, such as Knowledge for Climate, Water and Space (CURNET) and VerDus, is obvious. In many of these programmes the governance becomes more and more important, even though this was not obvious at the start. This way, WGC becomes a partnership and a network organization, and not a closed shop. New partners should be allowed to join if it strengthens WGC. Partners must make good agreements and draw up rules and criteria in advance, in order to make sure that, in terms of quality, the strongest knowledge coalitions are being formed in which a multidisciplinary approach and steering on demand are key.