Factsheet of the Utility Platform
The Utlility Platform in brief: background, objectives, approach, including its special approch in the Ukraine.
Factsheet: KASHWASA, KUWASA in Tanzania and HAMBURG WASSER, and Netze BW Wasser
Fact sheet about the water operators partnership (WOP) between KASHWASA, KUWASA in Tanzania and HAMBURG WASSER, and Netze BW Wasser in Germany. The overall project goal is to establish a sound long-lasting cooperation in partnership between KASHWASA, KUWASA, HAMBURG WASSER, and Netze BW Wasser in terms of trust and relation.The concrete goals and targets cover different […]
Looking back at IFAT Munich 2024
Today three months ago the Utility Platform attended IFAT Munich: the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management. With almost 150,000 visitors from almost 170 countries and regions, it brings together the most important international industry representatives from politics, business and science and offers exciting ideas and innovative solutions for […]
Utility partnerships: The key to a water-secure future
Today still, more than two billion people across the globe do not have access to a safe supply of water. Moreover, many municipalities in the Global South are without an operational sanitation system. To help close these global supply gaps, municipal water supply and sanitation companies in Germany, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Ukraine, […]
6. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: an overview
Overview How can utilities in the partner countries operate more effectively and efficiently to meet the freshwater and wastewater needs of the population and cover their costs? This question was the focus of the 6th Utility Platform networking event in Berlin on May 25 and 26, 2023. The networking event followed the 5th Global WOPs […]
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 […]
Water is Life
Together with the City of Dresden (capital of Germany’s federal state of Saxony), which is twinned with Brazzaville in the Congo, Engagement Global’s Service Agency Communities in One World hosted the Fifth Conference of Partnerships Between German and African Municipalities from 20 to 22 September 2022. Among others, two utility partnerships active on the continent […]
Job shadowing of Tanzanian colleagues of KASHWASA and KUWASA at Hamburg Wasser
If you are interested in how WOPs work in practice, the following video features the partnership by Hamburg Wasser and colleagues of KASHWASA and KUWASA in Tanzania on the occasion of the jobshadowing in June 2022. Watch how the WOP principles are brought to life. More information about Hamburg Wasser International on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/hamburgwasser-international Video auf […]
Helping to prevent water leaks in Tanzania
When Osama Madwar and Sudgi Azem stepped out of the propeller plane in mid-May, the Tanzanian heat hit them immediately. For the two engineers, this was a journey to a very different world – even though from a professional point of view they were in familiar territory. As in Stuttgart, the two experts were on […]
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 […]
