Reshaping decentralised development cooperation in Germany – also with municipal utilities
The OECD report “Reshaping Decentralised Development Co-operation in Germany” was presented at the “6th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs” in Brussels on 20 April 2023. It assesses decentralised development cooperation (DDC) policies, strategies, programmes and financing in Germany, as well as the challenges they face, and provides concrete recommendations on how […]
SKEW Dossier 6-2023: Gemeinsam für eine nachhaltige Zukunft
Über 400 Kommunen in Deutschland und verschiedenen afrikanischen Ländern setzen sich in Partnerschaften für eine nachhaltige Zukunft ein. Ihre Themen decken das gesamte Spektrum der UN-Nachhaltigkeitsziele ab – von Anpassung an den Klimawandel bis zur Inklusion. Anhand von acht konkreten Beispielen wird diese Vielfalt in dieser Publikation beleuchtet. Auf Seite 16ff erklären im Gespräch mit […]
Knowledge exchange and environmental education
Within our utility partnership, five of our South African colleagues visited the Oldenburgisch-Ostfriesischer-Wasserverband (OOWV) and the Wupperverband during a one-week visit in early March 2023. Although they missed their connecting flight in Frankfurt, the group happily arrived in rainy Bremen with a delay of 3 hours and was impressed how organized the Germans are. On […]
Berlin water utility donates seven vehicles to Ukraine
The ‘Berliner Wasserbetriebe‘ water utility is donating seven vehicles to the Ukrainian wastewater operator ‘Lvivodokanal‘. Together with Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Svenja Schulze, and the Vice President of the Association of Municipal Enterprises, Karsten Specht, the company handed over the vehicles today. To maintain wastewater disposal in Ukraine, the Berlin water utility is donating […]
Intercultural awareness training for Ukrainian-German solidarity partnerships
Why learn about intercultural differences between Ukrainians and Germans? Because they matter! For successful partnerships it is useful to understand underlying values and norms of your counterparts. This is why the utility platform offered for German and Ukrainian colleagues involved in solidarity water utility partnerships this crash course on intercultural awareness on 9 and 10 […]
Aid supplies on their way to Ukraine
Following months of close cooperation between various divisions of our utility, two trucks carrying a range of technical relief goods could finally be sent to our partner utilities in Ukraine this week. This is already the second aid delivery this year being transported from Dresden 800 km eastwards. The supplies The water and wastewater utilities in […]
Oldenburg sewage treatment plant becomes a model for reconstruction
In north-western Germany. Here the focus is on reconstructing parts of the critical infrastructure in Ukraine: The Oldenburg East Frisian Water Association (OOWV), and municipal water supply and sanitation companies from the cities of Chernihiv and Sumy in north-eastern Ukraine, are collaborating in a solidarity partnership. Four guests from the crisis region that borders Russia and […]
Intensive and compact knowledge transfer in special times
In late September, the Utility Partnership Ukraine had the opportunity to welcome a delegation of ten people from the partner operators in Lviv, Ternopil and Nadvirna. The partnership faces difficult challenges in its day-to-day project work due to the ongoing war. A visit by the Ukrainian partners to Germany requires not only increased logistics, but […]
New experiences for some, new perspectives for others
Yoram William Sinyangwe has no doubt about it: the partnership with Gelsenwasser AG has been a blessing for his company – at all levels. ‘Virtually the entire organisation is involved in the project here. All 256 employees know the project and every single one of them supports it,’ reports the Managing Director of Zambia’s Kabwe-based […]
Quantitative water balances, prototype development, smart metering solutions…
At the end of August, the EThekwini Water & Sanitation (EWS) unit in Durban (South Africa), and HAMBURG WASSER (Germany), together with Open Cities Lab (OCL), Viva con Agua (VcA) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as additional partners, launched a 3-year Water Operator Partnership (WOP). This is one of 22 WOPs […]
