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Water cooperation happens at different levels. While it is true that traditional diplomacy operates under the realm of States, in order to be effective water agreements require the buy-in of all users, not only States. The BRIDGE Programme (Building River Dialogue and Governance) has worked at the interface of hydrodiplomacy and governance to promote a new approach in the management of shared waters: facilitating cooperation at multiple levels, strengthening inter-governmental capacities for water negotiations, and creating spaces for dialogues and agreements with a wide array of stakeholders at different levels.

The strategy of BRIDGE aims at catalysing sustainable water resources development, including progress on safe water supply and sanitation, sustainable watershed management and biodiversity conservation. It is based on the principle that demonstrations on the ground, combined with capacity and leadership development, are necessary to make cooperation a reality that catalyses change.