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Helping operators to help one another: GWOPA’s role at the global level. Tongatapu , PWWA, 2016. Dr Anne Bousquet. 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
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Helping operators to help one another: GWOPA’s role at the global level Tongatapu, PWWA, 2016 Dr Anne Bousquet
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
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
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)
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…
3. GWOPA’s services • Global coordination and brokering • Brokering • Matchmaking • Tools: • The Pipeline • Operator Profiles • WOPs Profiles
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,
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
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)
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
3. GWOPA’s services • e) Advocacy and promotion of WOPs
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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
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