{"id":7144,"date":"2023-06-05T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T09:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T12:55:22","slug":"shukalb-participates-at-the-5th-gwopa-congress-resilience-in-challenging-times-mobilizing-collaboration-for-future-ready-water-and-sanitation-service-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/?p=7144&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"SHUKALB Participates at the 5th GWOPA Congress \u201cResilience in Challenging times: Mobilizing Collaboration for Future-ready Water and Sanitation Service Providers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SHUKALB Participates at the 5<sup>th<\/sup> GWOPA Congress \u201cResilience in Challenging times: Mobilizing Collaboration for Future-ready Water and Sanitation Service Providers\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7158\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7158\" src=\"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gwopa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gwopa.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shukalb.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gwopa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shukalb.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gwopa-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shukalb.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gwopa-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Elisabeta Poci, Executive Director of SHUKALB; Aleksandar Krstic, UBP Coordinator of IAWD\u2018s Danube Hub and Katerina Schilling, Head of IAWD Secretariat at the 5th GWOPA Congress<br \/>Photo Credit: SHUKALB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elisabeta Poci, Executive Director of SHUKALB attended the 5<sup>th<\/sup> GWOPA Congress, in Bonn, Germany, on 22-25 May 2023, together with other colleagues from the Danube region, Katerina Schilling, Head of IAWD Secretariat, and Aleksandar Krstic, UBP Coordinator of IAWD\u2018s Danube Hub. \u00a0Ms. Poci participated at the side event titled <em>\u201cNew Tools for Utilities to Move Forward: Self-Assessment and Benchmarking for Performance, Management, and Credit Worthiness\u201d, <\/em>organized on 23 May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of the side event was to highlight a number of Innovative World Bank Tools available to Utilities to improve performance management and transparency \u2013 respectively by self-assessing and benchmarking their own management, performance and creditworthiness in comparison with others. The tools include the NewIBNET platform and partnership that invites utilities to regularly share their data on key performance indicators and management practices so as to be able to compare themselves and learn from other comparable utilities around the world (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.NewIBNET.org\">www.NewIBNET.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7159\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7159\" src=\"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/5th-GWOPA.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/5th-GWOPA.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/shukalb.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/5th-GWOPA-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/shukalb.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/5th-GWOPA-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/shukalb.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/5th-GWOPA-120x90.jpeg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elisabeta Poci, Executive Director of SHUKALB 2nd from R), during the 5th GWOPA Congress side event \u201cSouth Eastern Europe Regional session: Let\u2019s see, could we WOP SEE\u201d together with Johannes Lohaus, EWA (1st from R), Alexander Kirstic, IAWD (4th from R), and Heiko Heidemann, GIZ (3rd from R)<br \/>Photo Credit: SHUKALB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ms. Poci presented the ongoing benchmarking activities of SHUKALB in partnership with SHUKOS, and in the framework of the Danube Learning Partnership (D-LeaP).<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Ms. Poci attended the session<em> \u201cSouth Eastern Europe Regional session: Let\u2019s see, could we WOP SEE?\u201d<\/em> on 23 May 2023. This session aimed to showcase previous and ongoing WOPs activities of water operators in the region, to provide a glance in who-is-who regarding the interest in WOPs activities in the region, and to bring these stakeholders together to discuss what may be some of potential supporting opportunities and what may be some likely challenges to address properly if a WOP SEE platform should be initiated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHUKALB Participates at the 5th GWOPA Congress \u201cResilience in Challenging times: Mobilizing Collaboration for Future-ready Water and Sanitation Service Providers\u201d Elisabeta Poci, Executive Director of SHUKALB attended the 5th GWOPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shukalb.al\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}