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Empowering Water Operators Globally: GWOPA's Impact and Services Explained

Explore GWOPA's role in promoting Water Operators' Partnerships and supporting global coordination, finance linking, and advocacy for WOPs. Learn about GWOPA's services, partnerships, and ongoing collaboration with PWWA.

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Empowering Water Operators Globally: GWOPA's Impact and Services Explained

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  1. Helping operators to help one another: GWOPA’s role at the global level Tongatapu, PWWA, 2016 Dr Anne Bousquet

  2. Outline • What WOPs are: a label to be promoted • Who we are: a Global platform for WOPs • GWOPA’s services • Global coordination and brokering • Support to regional WOPs Platforms • Sharing of good practices and Knowledge Management • Finance linking and fund mobilization • Advocacy and promotion of WOPs • 4. GWOPA and PWWA

  3. What WOPs are. A label to be promoted • Water Operators’ partnerships • = • peer-to-peer exchanges for • Capacity Building, • on a not-for-profit basis LABEL= Charter and Code of Conduct

  4. 2. What GWOPA is: a Global platform for WOPs • The Global WOPs Alliance, UNSGAB initiative within Hashimoto Action Plan • Led and hosted by UN-HABITAT upon request by former UN SG • Global mechanism for coordination and support of WOPs • In line with Hashimoto principles (non-profit partnerships, inclusivity)

  5. 2. What GWOPA is: a Global platform for WOPs • A multi-stakeholder network of partners: • GWOPA’s inclusive governance • Alliance of partners for utilities’ capacity building: UNESCO-IHE, UNESCO-UNW, UNICEF, WHO, CAP-NET, IWA, WATERAID, GWP, WSP, regional devt bank, national cooperation agencies etc…

  6. 3. GWOPA’s services • Global coordination and brokering • Brokering • Matchmaking • Tools: • The Pipeline • Operator Profiles • WOPs Profiles

  7. 3. GWOPA’s services • b) Support to regional WOPs Platforms WOPs Around the World: Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, Asia, Central Asia, the Pacific, Arab Region, South Eastern Europe,

  8. 3. GWOPA’s services b) Support to regional WOPs Platforms • Direct support to platforms (establishment, Secretariat, program) • Direct support and implementation of WOPs with regional platforms for pilot themed WOP. Ex: • PIP • Climate change • SSP • WSP • Pro-poor unit establishment • etc

  9. 3. GWOPA’s services • c) Sharing of good practices • and Knowledge Management • WOPs Case Studies, fact-sheets • and WOP profiles online • 5 year collaboration with • UNESCO-IHE on learning • approaches in CB, guidance tools • for WOPs (BEWOP)

  10. 3. GWOPA’s services • d) Finance linking and fund mobilization • Direct financing of short term WOPs • Referrals to financial institutions and partners such as AfDB-AWF, AFD, GIZ, EU-ACP Water Facility, etc. • For platforms • For WOPs • For PIPs

  11. 3. GWOPA’s services • e) Advocacy and promotion of WOPs

  12. Stockholm Water Week World Water Forum HABITAT III …

  13. 4. GWOPA and PWWA • On-going :exchanges between Pacific and the Caribbean • 2016: • Signing of a CA between GWOPA and PWWA (50,000 USD) • implementation of 1 WOP • Support to the Secretariat • (on the basis of PWWA future work plan) • - Direct support to 2 WOPs on PIP with OFID funding (2d phase) mentees to be identified

  14. Thank you! ! Muchas Gracias! www.gwopa.org Thanks! شكرا Merçi!

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