1. 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

2. Presentation Outline
1) Presentation of GWOPA
2) Overview of activity areas
3) Highlights of activity areas
4) Capacity building approach
5) Initiative on WSP

3. 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

4. What are WOPs? Water Operators’ Partnerships training twinning sharing
Premise
Water Operators have a tremendous role to play in meeting MDGs
There are capacity gaps, but utilities are also source of great expertise
There is much to be gained by more systematic sharing between them

5. Capacity remains with Utility
What are WOPs?
Tailor Made
Cost Effective
Inspires Change
Focus on Public
Capacity remains with Utility
Service to the Poor

6. Guiding principles for WOPs
Water Operators’ Partnerships
Code of Conduct
sustainability
coordination
Accountability
Transparency
Not for profit
Mutual benefit
integrity
inclusiveness
Learning from others

7. Overview of Activity Areas
Support to Regional WOPs
Capacity Building and Training
Knowledge Management
Financial Guidance and Linking
Advocacy and Communications

8. 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

9. Highlight of Activity Areas : knowledge management
Impact-Oriented Case
Studies
Process
Results
Impacts
Multi-media publication
Best practices, lessons learned, M& E

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Training Approach – cont’d
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

14. 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 Training in Johannesburg, SA, hosted by Randwater,
co-organized with CapNet and IWA 9 utilities trained, from 7 countries
Main achievements: WSP 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. First GWOPA bi-annual Congress & GWOPA General Assembly
Announcement
First GWOPA bi-annual Congress
& GWOPA General Assembly
Cape Town, March 2010
(just before World Water Day!)

19. Thank you for your attention !
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