1. Helping operators to help one another:
GWOPA’s role at the global level
Tongatapu, PWWA, 2016
Dr Anne Bousquet

2. Outline What WOPs are: a label to be promoted
Who we are: a Global platform for WOPs
GWOPA’s services
Global coordination and brokering
Support to regional WOPs Platforms
Sharing of good practices and Knowledge Management
Finance linking and fund mobilization
Advocacy and promotion of WOPs
4. GWOPA and PWWA

3. Not-for Profit Ptnrships
2 or more Operators
Not-for Profit Ptnrships
Twinning / Training
What WOPs are.
A label to be promoted
Premise
Operators Need Urgent Capacity Support
Utilities face many similar challenges
Many utilities have great expertise, and are willing to share
Water Operators’ partnerships =
peer-to-peer exchanges for
Capacity Building,
on a not-for-profit basis
LABEL= Charter and Code of Conduct

4. 2. What GWOPA is: a Global platform for WOPs
The Global WOPs Alliance, UNSGAB initiative within Hashimoto Action Plan
Led and hosted by UN-HABITAT upon request by former UN SG
Global mechanism for coordination and support of WOPs
In line with Hashimoto principles (non-profit partnerships, inclusivity)

5. 2. What GWOPA is: a Global platform for WOPs
A multi-stakeholder network of partners:
GWOPA’s inclusive governance
Alliance of partners for utilities’ capacity building: UNESCO-IHE, UNESCO-UNW, UNICEF, WHO, CAP-NET, IWA, WATERAID, GWP, WSP, regional devt bank, national cooperation agencies etc…

6. 3. GWOPA’s services Global coordination and brokering Brokering
Matchmaking
Tools:
The Pipeline
Operator Profiles
WOPs Profiles

7. 3. GWOPA’s services b) Support to regional WOPs Platforms
WOPs Around the World: Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, Asia, Central Asia, the Pacific, Arab Region, South Eastern Europe,

8. 3. GWOPA’s services b) Support to regional WOPs Platforms
Direct support to platforms (establishment, Secretariat, program)
Direct support and implementation of WOPs with regional platforms for pilot themed WOP. Ex:
PIP
Climate change
SSP
WSP
Pro-poor unit establishment
etc

9. 3. GWOPA’s services c) Sharing of good practices
and Knowledge Management
WOPs Case Studies, fact-sheets
and WOP profiles online
5 year collaboration with
UNESCO-IHE on learning
approaches in CB, guidance tools
for WOPs (BEWOP)

10. 3. GWOPA’s services d) Finance linking and fund mobilization
Direct financing of short term WOPs
Referrals to financial institutions and partners such as AfDB-AWF, AFD, GIZ, EU-ACP Water Facility, etc.
For platforms
For WOPs
For PIPs

11. 3. GWOPA’s services
e) Advocacy and promotion of WOPs

12. Stockholm Water Week
World Water Forum
HABITAT III …

13. 4. GWOPA and PWWA
On-going :exchanges between Pacific and the Caribbean
2016:
Signing of a CA between GWOPA and PWWA (50,000 USD)
implementation of 1 WOP
Support to the Secretariat
(on the basis of PWWA future work plan)
- Direct support to 2 WOPs on PIP with OFID funding (2d phase) mentees to be identified

14. Thank you!
! Muchas Gracias!
 شكرا
Merçi!
Thanks!