Working Areas
Business Planning
Financial Management
Organizations Involved
unspecified - Philippines — Lead Mentee
- Leyte Metropolitan Water District — Mentee
Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department — Lead Mentor
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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Supporting Org
Florida Water and Climate Alliance(FWCA)
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Facilitator
Project description
Cognizant of the impacts of climate change to the operations of water service providers in the Philippines, the Philippine Association of Water District (PAWD) through the Community of Practice on Climate Change (PAWD CoP-CC) has expressed the need for its members to be climate resilient. The result was a twinning partnership between the Palm Beach County Water Utilities (PBCWU) through the Florida Water and Climate Alliance (FWCA) and PWAD-CoP CC. The twinning partnership is being facilitated by WaterLinks, an organization that promotes Water Operator Partnerships (WOPs) between water and wastewater service providers across Asia to improve their operational efficiency. The objective of this twinning partnership is to strengthen the capacities of PAWD’s CoP-CC Core group members through improved business planning process and enhanced operational systems in the context of present climate variability, extreme weather events ad uncertain climate futures. PAWD’s CoP-CC Core group members are: Leyte Metro Water District, Cagayan de Oro City Water District, Metro Iloilo Water District, Isabela City Water District and Metro Cotabato Water District.
Project main objectives
• Strengthen PAWD CoP‐CC Group Members’ knowledge of Vulnerability Assessment methodologies using the WaterLinks Climate Change Toolkit
• Increase capacity of group members in the conduct of Vulnerability Assessment and Business Planning
• Increase group members operational capabilities in the context of climate variability, extreme weather events and uncertain climate futures
• Increase capacity of group members in the conduct of Vulnerability Assessment and Business Planning
• Increase group members operational capabilities in the context of climate variability, extreme weather events and uncertain climate futures
Most significant results
Describe the overall results
• Recipient utilities have submitted draft vulnerability assessments (VA)
• Finalization of VAs during the recipient visit to Florida on 3‐10 October 2015
• Recipient visit to cover meetings with various Florida organizations i.e. local governments, academe, scientific community, local water utilities, FWCA members
Next Steps
• Recipient visit to mentors in Florida
• Finalization of the VA and Business Plan
• Recipient utilities have submitted draft vulnerability assessments (VA)
• Finalization of VAs during the recipient visit to Florida on 3‐10 October 2015
• Recipient visit to cover meetings with various Florida organizations i.e. local governments, academe, scientific community, local water utilities, FWCA members
Next Steps
• Recipient visit to mentors in Florida
• Finalization of the VA and Business Plan