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Newsletter 3/2015 Global Water Operators' Partnerships Alliance/UN Habitat
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03/2015

Latest news from GWOPA: World Water Forum in Korea, Media breakfast with AECID and WaterLinks WOPs Awards! 

Progress on WOPs directly supported by OFID fund and GWOPA


During the first week of March 2015, three teams from African operators participating in the WOPs supported by OFID and GWOPA conducted exchange visits within the framework of their WOPs. GWOPA is directly supporting 9 WOPs in various African countries that will support operators to develop short-, mid- and long-term Performance Improvement Plans to ensure sustainable improvements in their services.
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The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) is the development finance institution established by the Member States of OPEC in 1976 as a collective channel of aid to the developing countries. 

Aguas del Norte & CAESB: 
Energy Efficiency & Metering

BEWOP studies on WOPs


This factsheet is part of a series produced by BEWOP to summarize WOPs cases in order to draw lessons and guide better practice. The factsheet is a step-by-step guide to the WOP between two large operators that, together, serve over 3 million customers. The BEWOP case study provides more details the key facts, success factors and results of this partnership over the course of the WOP and provides detailed information on each operator.  

This WOP cost around 50,000 USD and resulted in 100,000 USD in savings for the mentee. 

Media Breakfast for Spanish National and Specialist press


A media breakfast organized jointly by GWOPA and the Agencia Española de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Internacional (Spanish Development Agency, AECID), highlighted the exemplary role of Spain in global development in the water and sanitation sector. 
 
Press based in the Spanish capital attended the event in the Casa de America to discuss with Gonzalo Robles Orozco, Secretary General of AECID, and Faraj El-Awar, Programme Manager of GWOPA, their collaboration in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals, the theme of the 2015 World Water Day.

GWOPA presents WOPs as cost-effective approach to achieving Human Right to Water and Sanitation 


During the session entitled, "Public Public Partnership in the international struggle to implement the human right for water and sanitation" that took part during the Wasser Berlin Fair, GWOPA/UN-Habitat presented WOPs as a low-cost approach to working towards universal access. 

High-level participants such as Dr. Uschi Eid (Chair of UNSGAB), Paolo Ciccarelli (Head of the European Commission for Water and Energy), and Christianne Franck (Vivaqua) were among the panellists along with GWOPA's Programme Manager, Faraj El-Awar.  + info

Uncovering utilities! 


Plaque d'égout - Tapa de registro - люк - Schachtdeckel - マンホールの蓋 - Putdeksel -  ‪manholecover - riooldeksel   

GWOPA has launched a global call to utilities and the general public to share pictures of utility hole covers in their regions. The best entries will be collected and shown at the GWOPA stand during the World Water Forum that will take place in Korea this April.

Utility hole covers are the most publicly recognizable icon for water and sanitation operators yet few people know what the work entailed in providing these most basic services to their populations. Aging infrastructure, climate change, rapid urbanization are only some of the challenges operators face all over the world. By helping them address these challenges through WOPs, they are more likely to provide secure, reliable and sustainable water and sanitation services. 

Submit your photos: expo@gwopa.org 

Regional Activities 
Read the case study here

Africa

WOP-Africa reviews its activities

Actors and stakeholders of WOP-Africa came together on 6th March 2015 in Abidjan for a workshop to present results of activities carried out. The Vice-President of the African Water Association, Mr Brahim Ramdanes congratulated the work and important advances made by the programme in establishing the secretariat and the National WOPs Platform in Nigeria as well as the 18 WOPs developed in the Business Plan. 

Discussions addressed successes, challenges and the new vision for the Platform for the coming period. more (français)
Read the case study here

Latin America

New WOP between SEDEPAL and Aguas Cordobesas


Following the Regional Conference on 'Water Operators' Strategies in protecting water sources and basin: Challenges and Opportunitties", organized by the Inter-American Development Bank in collaboration with la Asociación Latinoamericana de Operadores de Agua y Saneamiento (ALOAS) through the WOP-LAC platform.  

Two operators, SEDAPAR of Peru and Aguas Cordobesas of Argentina came together during this conference and have since launched a WOP on quality control and monitoring for the Peruvian operator. The WOP will result in an action plan and costs will be covered by the IDB grant.  
Read the case study here

Asia

Waterlinks WOPs Awards

WaterLinks will present two Waterlinks WOP Awards to recognize the outstanding achievements of WOPs in: Outcomes and Impacts: tangible results in terms of expanded or improved services delivery; Scale-Up and/or Replication: expansion of service delivery improvements

Deadline of submission of nomination forms: April 30, 2015.
Announcement of winners: May 2015. 
Presentation of awards: June 2015

More information on the awards and how to apply
Contact Waterlinks 

Further reading

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UN-Water

Wastewater Management- A UN-Water Analytical Brief
April
12-17 Korea - World Water Forum
May
10-12 Thesaloniki - IWA Balkan Young Water Professionals 2015
13-15 Tirana - IWA Regional Utility Management Conference
25-29 Edinburgh - XVth World Water Congress
June
15-17 Bucharest - Water Loss Management 2015
July
27-31 Loughborough - 38th WEDC International Conference
August
23-28 Stockholm -  Stockholm World Water Week
September
17-19 Belgrade - 7th Eastern European Young Water Professionals Conference
16-18 Barcelona - 3rd Global WOPs Congress and GWOPA General Assembly
October
19-22 Dead Sea -  2015 IWA Development Congress & Exhibition
November
2-6 Amsterdam - International Water Week Amsterdam
December
1-4 Paris - Water, Megacities and Global Change
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