National Water Operators' Partnership. An Underused Opportunity for Locally Led Water Utility Capacity Development

National Water Operators' Partnerships (WOPs) are an underused opportunity for locally-led water utility capacity development. National WOPs are taking place in a number of countries, but as they are generally small in nature and self-funded, they often go under the radar of global WOPs monitoring. Although few studies have been conducted on National WOPs, they are assumed to carry many of the advantages of south-south partnerships: such as easier knowledge sharing owing to similarities in culture, language, laws and policies.