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Europe
Enabling WOPs: Mobilizing European Actors for Solidarity-based Water Partnerships
This report examines Water Operators' Partnerships (WOPs) from a European view and presents recommendations to scale up WOPs in Europe by showcasing examples of enabling frameworks and best practices from countries and cities throughout Europe. It is designed to support all stakeholders: water and wastewater utilities, governments, financial institutions, development partners, civil society and anyone interested in making it easier for operators...
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Europe
National Water Operators' Partnerships: Short Term Exchanges between Greek Operators
National Water Operators’ Partnerships 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 such as easier knowledge sharing owing to...
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Learning Approaches in Water Operators’ Partnerships. Framing the Issues
The aim of the paper is to provide the conceptual basis for understanding capacity development and learning approaches in Water Operators' Partnerships (WOPs), that have been arisen from the second Global WOPs Congress, held in Barcelona in November 2013. The paper also makes an important initial contribution to the Boosting Effectiveness of Water Operators' Partnerships (BEWOP) project, a five-year collaboration between UN-Habitat's Global Water...