Short Course Training – Immersion in Cambodia – Water specialty
How to improve your managerial skills in a foreign country with other water and sanitation managers
Presentation
The AgroParisTech – SUEZ Chair offers you an international course including
- An immersion in a renowned institute – Institute of Technoly of Cambodia (ITC) in Phnom Penh during 1 month (execluding week-ends and country celebration’s day)
- A 5 to 10 year management case study carried out at the heart of a large scale water and/or sanitation – Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority in Cambodia during 10 days (excluding week-ends)
Duration: From March 23,2026 to May 24,2026
E-learning classes will take place prior to face-to-face classes in Phnom Penh.
For whom?
- Head of services
- Operational Directors
- Executive Officers
- Managers
- Engineers
- Project managers
Training benefits
This international course will train you in strategic management and its associated tools within a pedagogical strategy.
You will be able to share your professional experience with our managers from different English-speaking African countries.
You will learn to master the essential notions of leading change, water strategy, geopolitics, geoeconomy and geostrategy, innovations and transformations in utilities and finances.
You will acquire diagnostic, communication, support, training and management tools for your change projects.
You will analyze and be able to anticipate the economy of your service in order to best manage the challenges you will face as well as the future ones.
Leading change, transformations and sustainable development
Innovation and geopolitics
Field surveys and analyses, especially in low-income neighbourhoods
Formation
The International Immersion is based on these pedagogical pillars
▪ Analyze the case study on water or sanitation service in detail and identify the key factors for its success.
▪ Strengthen managerial and operational skills
▪ Meetings and exchanges with local experts on their field experience
The international immersion “Asia” is an operational strategy course and lasts 20 days (excluding week-ends).
The objective is to confront the participant with the reality of an operator in charge of managing an urban drinking water and/or sanitation service, to strengthen its operational skills and to enable him to identify the key factors that will change the company towards better performance. The 20 days of the track are divided into two parts:
- Immersion in a renowned institute for skills building (1 month)
- Immersion in public water service: K-OPT study (10 days)
E-learning modules prior to trip to Cambodia
- Innovation – January 15,2026 from 10.00am to 1.30pm
- HR and leading change – January 22,2026 from 10.00am to 1.30pm
- Geopolitics and geostrategy – January 29,2026 from 10.00am to 1.30pm
- Leadership and reforms – February 5,2026 from 10.00am to 1.30pm
- Circular economy – February 12,2026 from 10.00am to 1.30pm
- Commercial and management – February 19,2026 from 10.00am to 1.30pm
- Non-Revenu Water – February 26,2026 from 10.00am to 1.30pm
Face-to-face cross-cutting learning modules( from March 23th to May 21st,2026)
- Leadership and reforms
- Contractual forms advantages & constraints
- Financial management
- Informal players and small private operators
- Cities and sociotechnical services
- Informal settlements & pro-poor urban policies
- Environment, climate and carbon footprint
- Strategy & planning
- Geopolitics & geostrategy
- Ethics, integrity & behaviour
- Leadership & management
- Benchmarking
- Non-Revenue water
- Customer management
- Human resources
- Environmental impact & energy
- HR and leading change
- Innovation
The K-OPT case study lasts 10 days (from April 20th to April 30th + May 8th,2026) and aims to analyze the past and recent situation of 5 thematics (institutional, technical, financial, commercial and human resource) of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (Phnom Penh), as well as to define a strategic action plan of the structure, to consolidate the performance of the company in the medium term (10 years). The participants play the role of the CEO of the company in question, who must make a set of decisions, analyze the situation and formulate action plans relating to the water sector.
Accommodation
Hotel in Phnom Penh – not included in the training course rate
Partnership
AgroParisTech
centre de Montpellier
Chaire AgroParisTech-SUEZ
648 rue Jean François Breton
B.P. 44494
34093 Montpellier, France