ADVANCED MASTER “Water for All” – OpT

The International Executive Master is aimed at managers and executives of urban water and sanitation utilities of public, private or mixed status. It is also aimed at any experienced professional presented by his company, management or supervisory authority

The SPECIALIZED MASTER “Water for All” – OpT  is a unique training course that aims to strengthen your skills as managers of urban drinking water and sanitation services in developing or emerging countries to help you become future leaders of transformation in your company.

The training is organized to lead you towards the three following dimensions:

• Development of your managerial knowledge
• Development of your sector knowledge
• Personal transformation to become a change leader

You will have the ability to take on the dual responsibility, both strategic and operational, necessary to successfully run your department and your teams.

You will be able to :

• Ensure the definition of the strategy for your department in the short, medium and long term
• Supervise and manage the organizational, technical, human and financial means to achieve the assigned objectives
• Carry out communication and representation actions with key players in the socio-economic environment
• Conduct fundraising policy and negotiations with key financial partners
• Contribute to the definition and monitoring of the implementation of national policies on drinking water supply and sanitation at the national level and specifically in urban centres.
• Contribute to the definition and implementation of the institutional and regulatory system of the sector, including private and public operators.

Its final objective is to provide managers with strategic and operational capacities to guarantee a quality, continuous and accessible service to the entire population of their city or even their country when the action plan they have to carry out extends over a national perimeter.

The training adapts to your professional reality by offering you a work-study program (3  months in France, 2 months abroad and then 2 weeks in France).

To be a candidate for this training course
Please download the file in the “for more information” section. It has to be properly filled by you, stamped and signed by your MD and sent back with a complete CV, an ID picture  and the copy of your highest diploma  by email to charlotte.armant@agroparistech.fr with in copy jean-antoine.faby@agroparistech.fr

Advanced Master “Water for All” video

4-step training program

Step 1: ON-LINE session starting April 21,2025 (roughly 3h per week)

Program proposed April-September 2025

• Leadership and management
• Ethics, integrity and behaviour
• Strategy and planning
• HR and change management

Step 2: Courses in Montpellier – September 29 to December 19,2025

Program through 4 thematic units (UT)

UT1: Management, Strategy and Leadership

• Leadership and management
• Ethics, integrity and behaviour
• Strategy and planning
• Organisational complexity
• Project and process management
• Negotiation
• Innovation
• HR and change management
• Health and safety at work
• Teambuilding and intercultutal management
• Communication, transparency and accountability
• Public speaking and mediatraining

UT2: Governance, Institution and Economics

• Global performance & SDGs
• Common goods & public services
• General economics and department budgets
• Financial management and 3T
• Regulaton and law
• Multi-actor governance and institutions
• Contractualisation and PPP
• Commercial and customer management
• Consultation and citizen participation

UT3: Social, environmental and territorial engineering

• Cities and socio-technical infrastructures
• Urbanisation and pro poor neighbourhoods
• Gender, vulnerability and inclusion
• Informal players and small private operators
• Corporate social responsibility
• Circular economy
• Environment, climate and carbon footprint
• Public, environmental and global health
• Crisis and risk management

UT4: Specialized unit Water OR Sanitation

Courses for WATER specialty

• Commercial issues and customer management
• Benchmarking
• Financial model and pricing
• Human resources, professions and skills
• Innovation and digital technology in the sector
• Integrated water resource management
• Environmental impact and energy
• NRW
• PPPS
• Asset management
• AFNOR

Courses for SANITATION specialty

• Commercial issues and customer management
• Benchmarking
• Financial model and pricing
• Human resources, professions and skills
• Innovation and digital technology in the sector
• Integrated water resource management
• Environmental impact and energy
• Reuse and recycling
• Non-collective sanitation
• Asset management
• CWIS
• AFNOR
• Sanitation strategy

Step 3: Immersion and case study K-OPT in Cambodia from March 23rd to May 24, 2026

One month courses at the Institute of Technology in Phnom Penh with Cambodian lecturers on the following topics:

• Leadership and management
• Ethics, integrity and behaviour
• Innovation
• HR and change management
• Geopolitics ans geostrategy
• Financial management and 3T
• Multi-actor governance and institutions
• Contractualisation and PPP
• Cities and socio-technical infrastructures
• Informal players and small private operators
• Environment, climate and carbon footprint

For Water specialty managers added topics

• Commercial issues and customer management
• Benchmarking
• Human resources, professions and skills
• Environmental impact and energy
• Non-revenue water

For Sanitation specialty managers added topics

• Commercial issues and customer management
• Benchmarking
• Environmental impact and energy
• Reuse and recycling
• Non-collective sanitation

Step 4: 2 weeks in Montpellier in September 2026

These 2 weeks will be dedicated to field trips in France as well as the presentation of your professional thesis

Residency in Montpellier

• SUEZ
• Foundation SUEZ
• AFD
• Water Agency Rhône Méditerranée Corse