Building Resident Capacity For Sustainable Water And Sanitation Service Delivery Through Water Operators Partnerships In Africa And Asia-Pacific

The purpose of this project is to strengthen the capacity of water and sanitation operators to play their full roles in providing sustainable, universal access to water and sanitation.

In the proposed collaboration, GWOPA will implement a suite of five technical assistance WOPs between mentor utilities with recognized strong performance in the thematic areas, and the target beneficiaries who have expressed their demand for support (in Africa, Asia and the Pacific). Each WOP will follow a step-wise process beginning with WOPs Initiation (scoping, matchmaking, and mentor and mentee training on WOP processes using GWOPA’s tools and methodologies), followed by Implementation (the technical assistance component consisting of assessment, formulation, implementation, and monitoring), Capitalization (when lessons from the short-term WOPs will be drawn for future long-term WOPs), and resulting in Sustainability Improvement Plans specifying hard and soft needs for further improvement which GWOPA will help to link to follow-up investment. The process will result in funding opportunities for OFID and other donors to leverage the gains made in the short-term WOPs, through subsequent, up-scaled long-term WOPs.