OiEAU ANNUAL REPORT - 2019

THEY TRUST US French & Foreign Institu- tional Stakeholders I n France, OiEau is a partner of gene- ral interest for ministries and their ope- rators, such as the French Agency for Biodiversity, under the supervision of the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Tran- sition, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. These missions are linked to the mana- gement of environmental data, to their promotion through their dissemination, to the facilitation of stakeholder networks, to the participation in and organization of events (COPs, World Water Forum). OiEau champions the French model of water management, its values and ac- complishments. A t the international level, OiEau re- gularly supports, in cooperation with French institutional stakeholders, all kinds of water resources management structures, either international (Trans- boundary River Basin Organizations), national (Ministries in charge of water), regional or local, for better governance based on integrated resource manage- ment in river basins. Donors - Development Agencies P rivileged funders of international actions, educational en- gineering or technical and governance support, institutio- nal donors and their beneficiaries find in OiEau a broad and multidisciplinary spectrum of expertise, adapted to sectoral skill development programs for water and sanitation services or Inte- grated Water Resources Management. The French Development Agency, German or Swiss coopera- tion, UNICEF, the World Bank, African Development Bank, In- ter-American Bank, European programs… allow us working on very diverse projects (creation of sectoral training structures, development of project incubators, design of national technical regulations, Information Systems). Our associative values allow us facilitating consultation with NGOs… Water Agencies (WAs) - Regional Health Agencies L oyal partners and sponsors, the WAs and the Regional Health Agencies, use the OiEau’s expertise on attractive and topical issues (training on water health security management plans, development of training platforms on nature-based so- lutions). The WAs also support us in organizing and monitoring international cooperation activities on all continents. A large variety of French and international partners and clients request OiEau to design and implement projects combining one or more of our 4 areas of expertise. 8