Budapest Waterworks, the drinking water utility for the Hungarian capital, is mentoring[JM1]  a Water Operators’ Partnership (WOP) between Budapest Waterworks and Pakistan’s Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Lahore, and Water and Sanitation Services Company (WSSC) Mardan funded by the EU-WOP Programme and managed by GWOPA/UN-Habitat.

Because well-executed WOPs are strongly integrated within the utility’s ongoing business and major investments, it can sometimes be a challenge to say what the WOP accomplished independently. Meeting with operator partners helped trace the path between the beginnings of the partnership, the ongoing utility turnaround, and the collaboration, clarifying how the new knowledge, innovation, and support to improved practices brought in by the WOP have catalysed or helped make the best use of, investments made by the utility and its funders like the Asian Development Bank.

GWOPA, jointly with UN-Habitat Senegal Country Office, conducted a monitoring mission of the EU-WOP project, titled “RC-ONAS-21 Strengthening the capacities of ONAS in Senegal”, between the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), Morocco and the Office National de l´Assainissement du Senegal (National Sanitation Office of Senegal - ONAS) from 11 to 15 December 2023. The partnership resulting from the EU-WOP project has shown significant outcomes.