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WOP Profiles

GWOPA is building a database of WOPs activities to better understand the scope and nature of the practice globally.

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.

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.

Demand-driven Partnerships

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

Hands-on Learning

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

The Right Fit

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

Solidarity between Neighbours

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

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.

A Global Network led by UN-HABITAT

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

Participation at Global Water Fora

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

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.

Classroom Training as a Complement to WOPs

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

Sharing WOPs Knowledge

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

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.

Twinning and Beyond

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

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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.

Barcelona, Delft and Istanbul present their bid for UN-Habitat/GWOPA

Details: Category: News

The UN-Habitat Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA) has received three offers of hosting from renowned international institutions in response to its recent call for expressions for interest opened last month of January. The offers would see Barcelona, Istanbul, or Delft become home to the GWOPA Secretariat for the next five years.

GWOPA was launched by UN-Habitat in 2007 upon the request of former Secretary General, Kofi Annan, in response to the Hashimoto Action Plan, a United Nations Secretary General Advisory Board (UNSGAB) report advising on key actions to hasten the pace of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) achievement. In it, the Advisory Board called for a global mechanism to scale up the practice of not-for-profit peer support between the world’s water and sanitation service providers – so-called Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs).

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