GWOPA Steering Committee Meeting held in Paris
- 06 Mar
- Category: News
The GWOPA's 5th Steering Committee Meeting was held at the SIAAP's HQ in Paris on the 28th of February and the 1st of March with participation of a total of 39 members of Steering Committee, partner organizations, observers and Secretariat members.
The discussion was very active and stimulating with a lot of good inputs from participants from around the world.
The Secretariat is now working on the outcome document which will be available by the end of this month to be shared with participants and other partners.
A news from P-WOPs: 1st Annual Review Meeting
- 15 Feb
- Category: News
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Pakistan Water Operators Partnership (P-WOPs) organized its first annual review meeting of its Steering Committee (SC), Gujranwala, on Feb 07, 2013. The meeting was hosted by the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Gujranwala. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Shahid Sohail, the Convener, P-WOPs SC and was attended by the members and participants from all the large urban water & sanitation utilities of Pakistan. The purpose of the meeting was to review the overall progress in accordance with its approved work plan and to chalk out the way forward. At the outset, the Managing Director, WASA Gujranwala (WASA-G) welcomed all the participants. The Convener P-WOPs, then, thanked the members for taking their valued time out to attend the SC meeting. |
A news from P-WOPs: 2nd Newsletter of P-WOPs
- 14 Jan
- Category: News
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The second edition of the P-WOPs Newsletter is now available from here. More detailed information about the activities of P-WOPs, inluding the directory of Pakistan water and sanitation utilities are availabe their new website as well. |
Mutual trust and understanding the real needs of communities are key to achieving water cooperation
- 11 Jan
- Category: News
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Mutual trust and understanding the real needs of communities have been emphasized as key factors for successful water cooperation by the participants of the International UN-Water Conference on water cooperation which took place from 8 to 10 January in Zaragoza, Spain. The participants shared a wide range of initiatives, including experiences in rural and urban areas, and cases at country and basin level, to identify lessons learned and key success factors. The need for cooperation was highlighted as critical for sustainable water management. |
Micro-irrigation practices and experiences from water user associations and small communities in Peru, Kenya, Guatemala, Bolivia, Madagascar, Ethiopia and India, examples of multisectoral collaboration in different cities around the world, and partnerships between public and private actors have been discussed.
Cases from Kenya and Bolivia demonstrated that the existence of a legal framework to support the creation of collective water management is important but it is implementation which is determinant. To actually realize cooperative water management, the implementation of a system of incentives and penalties is also required. While political will enables the development of laws and regulations, implementation should come from local organizations and institutions.
GWOPA at the International Water Summit in Abu Dhabi
- 10 Jan
- Category: News
GWOPA Secretariat represented by Faraj El-Awar will be attending the International Water Summit 2013 in Abu Dhabi.
At the Summit, the session on WOPs - Non-Profit Peer Support Partnerships for Capacity building of Water Operators – will be organized on the 17th of January. The session include the keynote speech by Faraj, presentations by regional representatives and high level panel with Dr. Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN-Habitat and Dr. Uschi Eid, Vice Chair of UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB) which will be moderated by Bert Diphoorn, Senior Advior, Urban Basic Services of UN-Habita and Chair of the GWOPA Steering Committee. The detailed program is available from here.
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