By Dr. Anne BousquetTraining and Capacity Building
OfficerThe Global WOPs Alliance
Update on GWOPA and Capacity building for WSP
through peer-support
Water Safety ConferenceNovember 2-4, Kuching, MalaysiaWHO, IWA, MWA
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Presentation Outline1) Presentation of GWOPA2) Overview of activity areas3) Highlights of activity areas4) Capacity building approach5) 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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Tailor Made
Cost Effective
Inspires Change
Focus on Public
Capacity remains
with Utility
Service to the Poor
What are WOPs?
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Guiding principles for WOPs
Water Operators’ Partnerships
Code of Conduct
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Overview of Activity Areas
Advocacy and Communications
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• Creating national platform in Pakistan
• Establishing partnerships with WSP-South Asia and GTZ-India
• 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
Highlight of Activity Areas : support to regional WOPs
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Impact-Oriented Case
StudiesProcess
Results
Impacts
Multi-media publication•Best practices, lessons learned, M& E
Highlight of Activity Areas : knowledge management
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• 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
Highlight of Activity Areas : Benchmarking
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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 – 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
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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 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
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Progress so far: training events
Francophone African utilities, June 2010Training 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 Manual12 utilities trained from 11 countries
Way forward:CA with ONEP in the makingExpert tour to the 11 utilitiesPreparation of field missions based on progressreportsE-forumWorkshop after 8 months : follow-up on expert missions, involvement of top management
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Scaling UP to Other Regions
WSPs in Latin AmericaIn 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 AsiaIn partnership with WHO, IWA, WaterLinks, etc.GWOPA is a founding member of Asia/Pacific WSP Network
training program will beplanned and implemented through the network
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Scaling UP to Other Regions
WSPs in Lusophone African countriesTraining in Mozambique
WSPs in Arab countriesTraining 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!)
