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CariWOPsHelping Water Operators help one another

in the Caribbean

Julie PerkinsAssociate Program Officer

Global Water Operators’ Partnerships AllianceUN-HABITAT

CWWA Conference, High Level Session, October 5th, 2009

UN-HABITAT to lead

the Global WOPs mechanism

Many countries are off track to meet the water & sanitation

MDGs

Urgent need to accelerate Progress

Response to a Global ChallengeGlobal Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance

Water Operators are essential to achieving the

MDGs.

Operators have great capacity, but unevenly

distributed shared.

Water Operators’ Partnerships a key

component of UNSGAB’s Hashimoto Action Plan to step up

effort to achieve MDGs

‘Inspiring’ by doing

Catalyst for Change

Anchoring Capaciity in

public utilities

From efficiency to service provision

Cost effective

Custom MadeWin-win

What are WOPs?

Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance

Twinning

Water and Waste Water Operators

Training

Peer Support

The Global WOPs Alliance is supporting and connecting processes:

• Promoting Key Principles

• Convening stakeholders

• Supporting with knowledge management,

capacity building and financial guidance

• Raising awareness and political support worldwide

• Helping broker inter- and

intra-regional WOPs

• Support WOPs Platforms

around the world

What we do

Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance

WOPs Around the World

WOP-LAC

Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance

Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean launched in 2007 in Recife, Brazil

collaboration between IDB and UN-Habitat, supported by AIDIS and IWA

Numerous Twinning and Capacity Building programmes implemented under WOPs umbrella throughout the region

CariWOPGlobal Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance

- Recognition of distinct Caribbean character and needs

- Foundation Meeting Georgetown, May 2009

- Majority of region’s water operators represented

- Outcome – willingness and support to intensified and systematic twinning and peer support amongst water operators in the Caribbean

Way Forward

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•CariWOP to be run as joint programme of CBWMP and CWWA•Concrete programme of opportunities for operators to exchange skills and know-how•CariWOPs session Thursday, October 8th a.m. to identify ‘offer and demand’.•CariWOPs has much to offer your utility – come and join!

CariWOPGlobal Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance

Thank you for your attention !

Global Water Operators’

Partnerships Alliancehttp://www.unhabitat.org

Financial Guidance

Training and Capacity Building

Knowledge Management

Advocacy and Communications

Brokering

Supporting Regional Platforms

What we Do

Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance