Water Operators Partnerships

With its extensive utility membership and specialist expertise, the International Water Association is a leading facilitator and broker of partnerships between water operators at both global and regional levels.

IWA activities on Water Operators Partnerships include:

• Brokering, facilitating and providing relevant supporting documentation to water operators interested in partnership approaches to improving their own operational efficiency;
  

• Supporting WOPs development in target regions of: Latin America & Caribbean (via the WOP-LAC Secretariat); Africa (through a joint venture with the African Water Association) and East Asia & Pacific (through the WaterLinks secretariat);

• Systematic documentation of operators experience with WOPs, including best practice, case studies and wider forms of documentation;

• Staging events relating to WOPs (such as the annual WaterLinks Forum in East Asia & Pacific, or training/informaton workshops in LAC and Africa;

• Development of capacity building materials and joint management of training courses for operator staff, in conjunction with Cap-Net (UNDP) and the Global WOPs Alliance.

• IWA is a core member of the Global WOPs Alliance (GWOPA)

For more information on any of the above, please contact steen.bjerggaard@iwahq.org