Organization Mission

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.

The European Union Water Operators” Partnerships Programme, or EU-WOP, is funded by the European Union and managed by the GWOPA Secretariat at UN-Habitat.

Initiated in 2020, the first phase of the Programme is supporting 22 Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) projects across Africa, Asia and Latin America until the end of 2025.

Extended until 2030 with €14 million of additional support from the European Union, a second phase, or EU-WOP 2, is currently calling for partnership proposals to be implemented between 2026 and 2030.

Key Responsibilities

Our new call, We expect applications from various regions and should be able to access information in corresponding various languages.

We are looking for 1 online volunteer to translate the material from English to French (1 Material of 40 Pages).

Required Skills and Experience

1. Experience in translation from English to French
2. Volunteers familiar with the terminology used in the water and sanitation and international development sector would be preferred.