The aim of the project was to contribute to improving water governance and management of water resources and to the sustainable development and maintenance of water infrastructure in ACP countries, through strengthening and promoting Water Operators Partnership.
The principal purposes of this contract were:

• to present the lessons learned from the projects of the 2nd CfP of the Water facility;
• to review the existing initiative related to Water Partnership;
• to present an inventory of Professional Association of European Water Operator, and their willingness to engage in Water Partnership;
• to disseminate the interlink between the result of the analysis above and the evaluation of the Water Facility, focusing on the water operators component (organisation of an event in Brussels).
• to elaborate a proposal for a strategy to strengthen Water Operator Partnership, in light of the lessons learned from the second CfP of the 10th EDF Water Facility and the existing initiatives.