Workshop: Strengthening Operational Planning in Operator Partnerships
Thank you to the nearly 40 participants who joined our workshop on operational planning and monitoring, and who provided valuable feedback to help us further refine our template. On 17 March 2026, members of the Utility Platform came together to strengthen how results are planned and tracked within operator partnerships. An input by Mohan Dhamotharan set the scene for a practical exchange, followed by group work using our adapted operational planning template. A key question emerged during the session: What is operational planning for? Operational planning provides a structured framework […]
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 […]
Outcome Report 7: Water Operator Partnership Tanzanian KASHWASA, KUWASA and German Water Operator HAMBURG WASSER and Netze BW Wasser
The water operator partnership between HAMBURG WASSER and Netze BW Wasser and the Tanzanian operators KASHWASA and KUWASA started in Februaray 2022 and the MoU between all partners was signed in March 2022. The project termination date was initially set to be May 2023, but two extensions took place until June 2024. The current report […]
7. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: an overview
Overview How can utility partnerships make a difference in achieving the sustainability goals of the 2030 Agenda? What was achieved in the pilot phase of the Utility Platform? What will the follow-up phase look like? These questions were the focus of the seventh networking event of the Utility Platform and were answered impressively. Almost 100 […]
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 […]