In this regards the Committee was then exposed to the Kingfisher Programme, which is a bilateral cooperation programme on water governance between South Africa's water institutions and Dutch Regional Water Authorities. The Kingfisher phase one, ran from 2013-2016 and the second phase from 2017-2018. The Committee learnt that the programme focused on among others the establishment catchment management agencies, organisational development, and process to development internal and organisational structures, stakeholder engagement, and trust boundary water management and cooperation governance with municipalities.