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 Operators' Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA) and the UNESCO Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE) to mainstream effective knowledge transfer and change in WOPs.