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 principal 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.

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.

Key Responsibilities

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.

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 Spanish (1 Material of 40 Pages).

Required Skills and Experience

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