By Dr. Anne Bousquet

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Update on GWOPA and Capacity building for WSP
through peer-support

• By Dr. Anne Bousquet
• Training and Capacity Building Officer
• The Global WOPs Alliance

Water Safety Conference November 2-4, Kuching,
Malaysia WHO, IWA, MWA
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Presentation Outline 1) Presentation of GWOPA 2)
Overview of activity areas 3) Highlights of
activity areas 4) Capacity building approach 5)
Initiative on WSP
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The Global WOPs Alliance

• A network of partners committed to helping water
  operators help one another
• to improve their collective capacity, and
• to provide access to water and sanitation
  services for all.

• Main Premise
• Practical knowledge and expertise are existing in
  water utilities but they are unevenly
  distributed
• Sharing this living library of knowledge helps
• bridging capacity gaps

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What are WOPs?
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What are WOPs?
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Guiding principles for WOPs
Water Operators Partnerships
Code of Conduct
sustainability
Accountability
Transparency
Not for profit
integrity
Learning from others
inclusiveness
Mutual benefit
coordination
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Overview of Activity Areas
Advocacy and Communications
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Highlight of Activity Areas support to regional
WOPs

• Establishing sub-regional platform and first
  workshop with PWWA and pacific actors
• First twinnings, support to EU-ACP partnership
  window
• Bringing Japanese utilities on board for WOPs

Asia-Pacific
South Asia

• Creating national platform in Pakistan
• Establishing partnerships with WSP-South Asia and
  GTZ-India

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Highlight of Activity Areas knowledge
management
Impact-Oriented Case Studies
Process
Results
Impacts

• Multi-media publication
• Best practices, lessons learned, M E

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Highlight of Activity Areas Benchmarking

• Launched at AfWA congress in Kampala in March
• Allows operators to better visualise performance
  data and facilitates matchmaking and
  communication between operators

• Collecting new round of 3-year pan-Africa
  benchmarking data
• Populating system with data from IB-NET and
  others
• Improving user experience

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Significance of Capacity Building to GWOPA

• Training/Capacity Building is a key activity area
  for GWOPA to help champion operators transfer
  their expertise to others
• GWOPA promotes capacity building through training
  and peer-support
• Training complementary to WOPs
• Peer-support making use of water operators
  knowledge and expertise

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Training Approach

• Regional Training Events
• Same region, no language barriers, common
  interests and challenges
• Training based on the WHO/IWA
• WSP manual
• Trainers Experts from utilities
• Homework before training
• Teams of 3/utility Potential WSP
• implementation team
• Draft of WSP presented at the end of the training

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Training Approach contd

• Follow-up activities peer support
• Using e-forums and meetings to report on Progress
• Promoting WSP-focused WOPs
• Exchange visits between champion and recipient
  utilities staff to assist in WSPs development and
  implementation
• Specialized follow-up workshop for financial
  decision makers

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Progress so far training events

• Training/Capacity Building program initiated in
  cooperation with Cap-Net in late 2008
• Nairobi 2008 African and Asian utilities on CB
  needs WSP emerged as top priority
• Cape Town 2009 design of training program
• Anglophone African utilities, Sept.2009Training
  in Johannesburg, SA, hosted by Randwater,
• co-organized with CapNet and IWA9 utilities
  trained, from 7 countries
• Main achievementsWSP teams established within
  utilities, funds budgeted
• for 2010 FY in some utilities, follow up
  (peer-support) activities led to development of
  WSPs, awareness campaign for external
  stakeholders, use of the self-assessment tool,
  etc.
• Way forward collaboration with IWA on East
  African Initiative

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Progress so far training events

• Francophone African utilities, June 2010
• Training in Rabat, Morocco, hosted by ONEP-IEA,
  co-organized with Cap-Net, IWA, and WHO.
  launching of the French version of the WHO/IWA
  WSP Manual
• 12 utilities trained from 11 countries
• Way forward
• CA with ONEP in the making
• Expert tour to the 11 utilities
• Preparation of field missions based on progress
• reports
• E-forum
• Workshop after 8 months follow-up on
• expert missions, involvement of top
• management

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Scaling UP to Other Regions

• WSPs in Latin America
• In partnership with ACCD, ACA, CapNet, IWA and
  LAC-WSP/Net
• Propagation of WSPs through WOPs platforms in
  LAC, training, and integration of WSPs in PIPs
  developed through WOPs
• WSPs in Asia
• In partnership with WHO, IWA, WaterLinks, etc.
• GWOPA is a founding member of Asia/Pacific WSP
  Network
• training program will be
• planned and implemented through the network

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Scaling UP to Other Regions

• WSPs in Lusophone African countries
• Training in Mozambique
• WSPs in Arab countries
• Training in Lebanon,
• hosted by UN-ESCWA,
• co-organized by GWOPA, CapNet,
• BGR, WHO, and ACWUA

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Announcement First GWOPA bi-annual Congress
GWOPA General Assembly Cape Town, March
2010 (just before World Water Day!)
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Thank you for your attention ! Contacts far
aj.el-awar_at_unhabitat.org anne.bousquet_at_unhabitat
.org www.gwopa.org