Train water and sanitation managers
A partnerships-based chair in general management of urban water and sanitation services for the common good
Founded in 2007, Agroparistech is theFrench National Institute for Life Sciences and Environmental Industries.
This major international institution, a founding member of Paris-Saclay University, addresses the major challenges of the 21st century: feeding people through sustainable land management, preserving natural resources, promoting innovation, and integrating the bioeconomy.
The school draws on its research and its links with professional circles to train executives, engineers, PhDs and managers in the field of life and the environment. It offers an engineering course, a Masters course and a PhD course in partnership with leading French and foreign universities, as well as a range of continuing professional education courses under the “AgroParisTech Executive” brand.
Our major water treatment training projects around the world since 2009
Haiti’s Water Professions School
Completed
After the earthquake in January 2010, the Chair decided to propose a FASEP project with the International Office for Water and ENGEES to study the feasibility of setting up a School of Water and Liquid Sanitation on a national scale in Haiti.
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For professional purposes, a master plan has been drawn up over 5 years, and an initial 1-year programme in 2011 has graduated 45 young Haitian technicians.
This project, taken over by the Institut National Professionnel d’Haïti, has resulted in training courses leading to certification and technical standardisation frameworks.
The Pan-African Capacity Building Programme
Completed
The aim of this programme, the fruit of collaboration between France (AFD) and South Africa (DBSA), was to implement a continental training programme for infrastructure managers in African public services.
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For its Water and Sanitation component, the Chair conducted studies to bring this project to fruition. Our partners were 2iE in Ouagadougou, Makerere University in Kampala and the University of Pretoria. The result was a 4-year programme with field placements at ONEA (Burkina Faso) and NWSC (Kampala) as part of the Specialised Masters course.
AFD in Paris and the Southern Bank of Development of Africa in Johannesburg were the main stakeholders, along with ParisTech.
The FEXTE PAKISTAN Project
In progress
Developed with AFD at the Al Jazari Academy in Lahore, this project involves training all the managers and operational staff of WASAs (Pakistan’s urban water and sanitation services).
The FEXTE ASIA Project
In progress
Developed with AFD: Capacity building for managers of urban water and sanitation services and promoting French economic influence in the following 11 countries: Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
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Our field partners for this project: ESSEC Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, PPWSA: Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, SRWSA: Siem Ream Water Supply Authority.
Contributing to sustainable development objectives and training on sanitation
The AgroParisTech-SUEZ “Water for All – General Management of Water and Sanitation Services” Chair is part of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. Its main aim is to contribute to goal number 6, “Access to safe water and sanitation”, by increasing the skills of managers of urban water and sanitation services, through training, knowledge sharing and contributing to research in the field.
The training courses it creates and offers are designed to meet the specific needs of major urban water and wastewater services, particularly in emerging and developing countries.
Knowledge creation
The primary aim of the Chair is to train managers of urban water and wastewater services in emerging and developing countries. It is aimed at senior managers and general management teams, senior and high-potential managers, and operational or functional managers in management positions.
Theme-based training
Focused on the various functions of a water and wastewater utility (infrastructure operation, customer management, human resources management, asset management, cost control, financial management, etc.), to enable the managers of these functions to diagnose, set medium- and long-term objectives, draw up the relevant action plans and manage them.
Training on global
challenges
in the medium and long term, so that every manager, whatever his or her position, incorporates them into his or her action plan.
Training on general management
general management
strategic management and planning, framing and coordinating action plans by function, institutional relations, relations with stakeholders, etc.
Project management
management
operational diagnosis, design of an action plan, management, reception, methodologies and tools, problem solving, scenario building…