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This Annual Report presents the highlights of the activities and achievements of the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance in 2019.

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...

BEWOP's operational tools were co-developed and tested with water professionals involved in the daily operations of water operators' partnerships (WOPs). The overall idea behind them is to facilitate the dialogue and sharing of experiences between experts involved in WOPs.

Water issues tend to be intrinsically linked to technical challenges. This tool invites readers to consider aspects of governance alongside technical dimensions when analysing and assessing water supply. The tool aims to support professionals in water utilities, acting as a guideline to reflect and discuss water governance challenges and alternatives. This framework supports users to critically articulate objectives, opportunities, and challenges...

This publication serves to provide WOP practitioners and interested parties with a structure by which these partnerships can be evaluated and communicated. The framework presents step-by-step guidance to develop dynamic, tailored and user-friendly case studies that inspire, challenge and support the many practitioners struggling to build and maintain good WOP projects that contribute to a significant impact.

The 2020-2024 GWOPA Strategy is a medium-term vision to promote and encourage the partnerships between water stakeholders through a new framework of actions, providing donors and partners a clear vision for collaboration and cooperation.

Produced under the BEWOP initiative, this fact sheet documents the partnership between Vietnamese water utility, Da Nang Water Supply Company (Dawaco), and Dutch company, VEI, between 2007 and 2010. Eight years after the end of this WOP, the case study describes the WOP with the improvements made in capacity and performance and presents the results of this WOP that have been sustained since.

Producido bajo la iniciativa BEWOP, este factsheet documenta el partenariado entre la Unidad Municipal Desconcentrada “Aguas de Siguatepeque” (Honduras), y la Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua Potable y Saneamiento (EPMAPS, Ecuador) entre 2017 y 2018. Este folleto describe el WOP y la capacitación y mejoras que permitió.

Producido bajo la iniciativa BEWOP, este factsheet documenta el partenariado entre la Unidad Municipal Desconcentrada “Aguas de Siguatepeque” (Honduras), y la Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua Potable y Saneamiento (EPMAPS, Ecuador) entre 2017 y 2018. Este folleto describe el WOP y la capacitación y mejoras que permitió.

One of the challenges in the implementation of Water Safety Plans (WSPs) is stakeholder engagement. For this reason, under the BEWOP initiative, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education has developed a role-playing game for practicing stakeholder collaboration in WSP. The game can be used in WSP training or during educational activities for water safety and WSP at a graduate and post-graduate level. Its goal is for participants to experience the...

Non-revenue water reduction and management is a major challenge. It needs vision and commitment from management, contributions from many departments and intensive collaboration between employees. Also, the challenge to reduce non-revenue water includes technical, cultural and organizational changes. Usually, quick-wins can be achieved within 2-3 months but sustainable results can only be achieved after several years of efforts when structural...

In the traditional planning of maintenance routines, focus was almost exclusively on the asset condition and assets are replaced only when they are (known to be) about to fail. However, modern asset management understands that the asset's condition should only be part of the total assessment, another essential part being the consequence of failures. From this conception, risk-based renewal planning is now at the heart of infrastructure asset...