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Twinning and Beyond

GWOPA helps partners design appropriate, results-oriented partnerships, ranging from short-term exchanges to long-term capacity development initiatives.

Solidarity between Neighbours

Regional and National WOPs platforms support WOPs between utilities in the same part of the globe.

A Global Community of Professional Peers

Water Operators around the world share many similar processes. WOPs respond to a real demand for greater interaction and peer support.

Advocating for a WOPs Approach

GWOPA helps to build the political and financial support needed to scale up the WOPs approach around the world.

$In Support of the Millennium Development GoalsGWOPA is an outcome of the UN Secretary General\'s Advisory Board\'s Hashimoto Action Plan which called for a global mechanism to scale up not-for-profit peer support between the world\'s water utilities.$

In Support of the Millennium Development Goals

GWOPA is an outcome of the UN Secretary General\'s Advisory Board\'s Hashimoto Action Plan which called for a global mechanism to scale up not-for-profit peer support between the world\'s water utilities.

Hands-on Learning

WOPs improve the capacity of the public water utilities who provide the majority of the world’s drinking water.

Sharing WOPs Knowledge

GWOPA brings together WOPs practitioners from around the world to share their challenges and best practice.

Participation at Global Water Fora

GWOPA reaches out to different audiences to build the support essential for WOPs success.

Water Operators are Key to Achieving the Water and Sanitation MDGs

Well performing water utilities are essential in enabling the poor to access safe, affordable and reliable water supplies.

Demand-driven Partnerships

WOPs are formulated by water utilities themselves, based on the unique set of strengths and capacity needs of their partners.

Classroom Training as a Complement to WOPs

GWOPA supports training, hosted by water and sanitation operators, in which staff serve as experts.

A Global Network led by UN-HABITAT

The GWOPA Secretariat is hosted by UN-HABITAT and supported by its Water and Sanitation Trust Fund.

The Right Fit

Matchmaking workshops help utilities identify appropriate partners with whom to exchange.

Developing and Sharing Tools for Water Operators

GWOPA has recently completed a pilot initiative with the Nairobi Water Company and IFRA for collecting and displaying performance indicators disaggregated at neighborhood level in GRUBS.

A Global Network for WOPs

GWOPA is guided by an International Steering Committee with representatives from public operators and their associations from every continent, development partners, labour unions, the private sector and civil society organizations.

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What are WOPs?

Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) are peer-support arrangements between two or more water or sanitation operators, carried out on a not-for-profit basis in the objective of strengthening their capacity. WOPs are being promoted as a simple but effective method of bolstering the ability of public watsan service providers to play their full role in delivering quality basic services to all.

4th GWOPA SC Meeting in Amsterdam

Details: Category: News

GWOPA has organized its 4th Steering Committee Meeting on the 1st of November in Amsterdam on the occasion of the International Water Week Amsterdam. Photos are available on the Pipeline.

The agenda items included; 1) Report of GWOPA Activity 2010-2011 including activity by regional/national platforms, 2) Upgraded website, 3) TOR of Integrity Sub Committee, 4) Work Plan, 5) Call for expression of interest in hosting GWOPA Secretariat and 6) How to enhancing SC members' involvement in GWOPA activity.

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