WOPs: How to Make Them Even Better?
The session on will share experiences and stimulate dialogue on effective partnership models between water operators which promote capacity development.
Peer-to peer capacity development is a proven relationship model which can deliver change and operational improvement. The session will discuss outcomes from water operator partnerships (WOPs) and discuss from this experience how peer-to-peer learning can be applicable in diverse operational environments. The session will seek to identify partnership models which may prove more acceptable to a range of financing institutions as instrument towards delivering financially sustainable operations. These may be called ‘bankable formats’ and could include performance based contracts. The objective of the session is to probe or improvements in the way WOPs are delivered, and to consider new approaches for sustainable and self-financing formats, mapping-out a way forward beyond current platforms. Presenters will be provocative to trigger open discussion, within the session’s objective of ‘how to make WOPs work even better’.
Convening organisations
International Water Association (IWA), Asian Development Bank (ADB) &Vitens Evides International (VEI)
Chair
Lieve Declerq (Vitens)
Presentations
Experiences on partner modalities to tackle NRW reduction of water operators
Philippe Marin (The World Bank)What counts as 'results' in WOPs? A multipath approach for Accountability, Adaptation and learning
Maria Pascual Sanz (IHE Delft), Siemen Veenstra (VEI), Uta Wehn de Montalvo (IHE Delft), Rob van Tulder (Erasmus University) and Guy Alaerts (IHE Delft)Building water Utility capacities through WOPs: The ADB Experience
Yolanda Gomez (ADB)Transformation of WOPS into bankable formats
Klaas Schwartz, Maria Pascual Sanz (both IHE Delft), Andrew Thawe (Blantyre Waterboard) and Siemen Veenstra (VEI)