MoEF: The Ministry of Environment & Forests is the nodal agency in the administrative structure of the Central Government, for the planning, promotion, co-ordination and overseeing the implementation of environmental and forestry programmes. The Ministry is also the Nodal agency in the country for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

CPCB: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), an autonomous organization under the MoEF is the apex organization in India for prevention and control of pollution. Among the many functions of the CPCB, it plays an important role in drafting guidelines, advising the MoEF on policy issues, conducting field tests and coordinating the activities of the state pollution control boards.

BMZ: The BMZ develops the guidelines and concepts of German development policy. It determines the long-term strategies of co-operation with the different participants and defines the rules for their execution. This principle task results in the development of common projects with the partner countries in the same way as on the international level.

GTZ: The GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. GTZ is a federal enterprise which was founded in 1975 as a company under private law. GTZ has a worldwide network of partnerships in civil society and in economic and cultural spheres. It has always cooperated closely with other national and international development cooperation organizations. In India, GTZ looks back to almost forty years of experience in executing Technical Cooperation projects and programmes on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany. Advisory Services in Environmental Management (ASEM) is a joint programme of the GTZ and the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) focusing on urban and industrial environmental management sustainable development.

SECO: The seco is the Swiss Confederation's competence centre for all core issues relating to economic policy. The Directorate for "Economic Development Cooperation" of seco in provides assistance to projects promoting sustainable economic development and the integration of developing and transition companies into the global economy. In 2003 seco initiated the Knowledge Partnerships programme in e-waste for developing and transition countries.

EMPA: Empa is an independent, neutral institution for multidisciplinary research into sustainable materials and systems engineering. Within Empa, the competence center for electronic waste recycling forms part of the technology and society laboratory which analyses the impacts of technological developments on society and the environment. EMPA is the technical monitoring centre for electrical and electronic waste working on contracts from the Swiss Association for Information, Communication and Organisation Technology (SWICO) and from S.EN.S. to do regular audits in recycling facilities; E-waste recycling is one of EMPA's research topics, both on the level of material flows and on the component level (Lillehammer Award 2002).