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Mission and objectives
The Global Water Operators' Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA) is a programme of UN-Habitat and contributes to the agency’s work plan. GWOPA’s vision is that water and sanitation operators help each other to achieve universal access to sustainable water and sanitation services through not-for-profit peer support partnerships. These partnerships result in public operators – the target of support – with strong technical, financial and management capacity, able to provide a sustainable, high-quality service to all. GWOPA’s mission is to promote the effective use of not-for-profit partnerships between water operators to realize its vision. GWOPA will be the global leader in Water Operator Partnerships (WOPs) promotion, facilitation and coordination, and the principle source for WOPs knowledge and guidance so that effective WOPs contribute to meeting national and global water and sanitation objectives including those relating to the Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals and the Human Right to Water. GWOPA's strategy has two objectives: 1) Guiding Global Growth of WOPs: GWOPA’s 2013-2017 strategy is to move to large-scale adoption of WOPs. To achieve this GWOPA will undertake activities in four strategic areas: a. Knowledge Management: developing guidance material for WOPs, global trend analysis on WOPs and utilities, case studies on WOPs and documentation of best practices and lessons learnt. b. Branding of WOPs: creating a clear and meaningful WOPs brand, establishing a global framework for benchmarking and certification of WOPs and establishing clear practices to which water operators can aspire in implementing WOPs. c. Communications: through communications, networking, sharing information and disseminating knowledge products, GWOPA will promote WOPs and utilities. It will lead global coordination and advocacy for WOPs and mobilize greater political prioritization of WOPs. d. Alliance Strengthening: growing the WOPs alliance by partnering with
Context
The Global WOPs Alliance was established in 2009 when the first Charter was issued. An important piece of the Charter, the Guiding Principles, remains at the heart of the Alliance and untouched, but the overall governance framework needed an update and some clarifications which were added in the new version drafted in 2020. The new Governance Framework now endorsed will help the Alliance attract more members and strengthen its base of active practitioners engaged with water and sanitation utilities towards the achievement of SDGs 6.
Task description
In 2020 the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance embarked in a full overhaul of its governance framework; The process resulted in the development of a new Charter including a new list of constituencies, a membership policy, roles and responsibilities of the different bodies of the Alliance (Steering Committee, General Assembly), roles and responsibilities of Chairs and vice-chairs etc. As a Global Alliance working globally, our members come from various regions and should be able to access information in corresponding various languages. We are looking for 1 online volunteers to translate the material from English to French (1 Material of 40 Pages). Having our governance material translated will help us being more inclusive and will convey our message more effectively.