5. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: an overview

Overview The Utility Platform’s fifth network meeting took place from 29 to 30 November 2022 again in a virtual format and with an intentionally wide range of topics. On both days of the event, participants were able to choose between strengthening their soft skills, such as their advisory expertise or capacity for communicating results in […]
4. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: an overview

Overview At Stuttgart’s Impact Hub, a co-working space and event venue, more than 60 practitioners from seven partnerships met on May 30 and 31, 2022, to network across partnerships, identify success strategies for operator partnerships, and discuss emerging issues within the partnerships. The following BMZ-funded partnerships were represented at the network meeting: In addition, two […]
4. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: Video impressions

More than 60 representatives of seven partnerships met live and in person at the Impact Hub in Stuttgart, a co-working space and event venue, on 30 and 31 May. The participants from Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, Ukraine, Zambia and Germany met to network beyond the partnerships, identify formulas for successful water operator partnerships, and exchange […]
4. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: Intensive dialogue

In Stuttgart, participants from seven partnerships and six countries spent two days keenly discussing possible solutions to current issues in municipal water supply. Municipal water utilities are key actors for providing people with water supply and sanitation at the local level. This is why it is important to make water utilities efficient and effective, especially […]
3. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: an overview

Overview 70 people from the partnerships, of which there are now seven, took part in order to discuss their partnerships. First off, Ms Barbara Baumbach from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) welcomed the participants in a short opening speech. Heiko Heidemann from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and Silvia […]
2. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: an overview

On 19 August 2021, the Utility Platform held its second virtual networking event. Forty-five people from four partnerships attended in order to talk about their experiences in the pilot project. After Felix Reifschneider (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) welcomed the participants in a short opening address, Heiko Heidemann (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale […]
The first international network meeting

Bonn, 10 November 2020. The experts from the municipal utlities in Germany, Ukraine, Jordan, Morocco and Zambia that are participating in the project were delighted to attend the first network meeting, which was held online due to the coronavirus pandemic. At the meeting, they discussed the work in the international partnerships with their colleagues. In his […]
1. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: An overview

Bonn, 10 November 2020. The experts from the municipal utlities in Germany, Ukraine, Jordan, Morocco and Zambia that are participating in the project were delighted to attend the first network meeting, which was held online due to the coronavirus pandemic. At the meeting, they discussed the work in the international partnerships with their colleagues. In […]