This webinar is hosted by the World Bank Group on Water, introducing you to the new International Benchmarking Network (IBNET) for Water and Sanitation Utilities. Utilities and other water and sanitation service providers are at the forefront of action to address the worsening global water crisis. While there has been some progress in ensuring affordable and safely managed water is available to people around the world, utilities struggle to keep up as the challenges to their organisations are mounting, driven by population growth, climate change, and simple but hard-to-tackle infrastructure gaps. Where to get started? When to know that actual progress has been made? This is where the NewIBNET partnership comes in – as a data partnership allowing utilities to compare their performance as well as management practices. Join us and meet change leaders from water & sanitation utilities from around the world and hear why they decided to join the NewIBNET partnership and how the NewIBNET-facilitated self-assessment and comparisons – on performance and management practices – help them drive their own organisation’s performance. Participants ideally should be: Familiar with water and sanitation utilities and the management challenges they face IT-curious, keen to use web-based resources, enjoying data and comparisons. Before the webinar: Check-it-out yourself: the NewIBNET Data Services Partnership – https://newibnet.org/ Short video: Tutorial – 10 easy steps to join NewIBNET –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt6dIET6iQo NewIBNET in 10-Steps: https://newibnet.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/NewIBNET%20in%2010%20Steps%202023%20%281%29.pdf Learning Objectives Following this session, participants will: Have a better understanding of how awareness of organisational performance and management practices can drive delivery outcomes for water and sanitation utilities. Be inspired by the examples of change leaders from various countries who work to instil a data culture in their organizations. Be able to navigate and use the NewIBNET data platform and find out about performance profiles of 100+ utilities around the world. Be able to decide whether or not they would recommend the water & sanitation utility they work with to join the NewIBNET partnership and to regularly submit KPI data and self-assessments on management practices. Introductions Marco Aguero – Senior Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice Berta Macheve – Senior Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Water Global Practice Panellists Wendy Harrison-Smith – National Water Cooperation, Jamaica Castigo Álvaro Cossa – Águas da Região Metropolitana de Maputo, Mozambique Sevval Oezturk Yaman and Ahmet Aladağ. – ASKI, Turkey Kelson Domingos, EPAL, Angola. Walter C. Emnace – Maynilad, Philippines Moderator Monika Weber-Fahr CreativeShifts.org Image Event Type Virtual 10-19-2023 13:00 PM