OiEau - Annual report

particular, when preparing a single management body, OiEau's work involves inventorying human resources and helping in the planning of joint management of services, while striving to ensure stakeholder consultation, legal robustness and technical and financial optimisation. • In Martinique, the same type of initiatives are being implemented for Odyssi (see p. 55), the island's largest water and sanitation authority, which operates water and sanitation services for the CACEM (Urban Community of Central Martinique). In the framework of its missions in these two overseas departments, OiEau will assist in studying and optimising customer files and invoicing, analysing skills and internal organisations, providing technical training in operations, diagnoses and expertise at treatment facilities and in the data management and service supervision project. Large-scale projects on shared themes OiEau also works on projects in which the cross- sectoral nature is confirmed by the overlapping of topics and multiple activities, by the diversity of technical and financial partners and stakeholders involved, and by the enhancement of innovation and various, shared resources. The Bio-Plateaux and CARIBSAN projects are exemplary in many respects. They combine skills and expertise with OiEau's networking and information management capacities. The CARIBSAN project seeks to promote the plant-based filters (PBF) process for wastewater treatment throughout the Caribbean. Financed by the INTERREG project, AFD and the Martinique and Guadeloupe Water Authorities, it includes 3 main areas of activity: • Deploying the technology by identifying sites for implementation, and conducting technical studies for the construction of sites using PBF; • Providing training and transferring skills to public and private organisations • Disseminating the results to all stakeholders in the Caribbean region via the development of an online platform dedicated to feedback. CARIBSAN is a multidisciplinary project conducted by OiEau, INRAE, the water and sanitation stakeholders of Saint Lucia (WASCO), Dominica (DOWASCO) and Cuba (INRH) and, of course, Guadeloupe and Martinique's Water Authorities. The BIO-PLATEAUX project (See p. 53) involves the Transboundary Coordination of Water and Biodiversity. It is funded by the Interreg Amazon Cooperation Program (PCIA) under the coordination of the Territorial Authority of French Guiana (CTG). It is supported by the Regional Directorate of Territories and the Sea (DGTM), French Guiana's Water Authority (OEG) and the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES). It aims to ensure that French Guiana and its neighbours Brazil and Suriname share information on water and biodiversity associated with aquatic environments. OiEau initiated and managed the implementation of this project with three other partners: French Guiana's Water Authority (OEG), Anton de Kom University of Suriname (AdeKUS) and the Amapa Economic Development Agency (Agência Amapá) in Brazil. The organisation of a high-level international conference in Cayenne in 2019 enabled a transboundary working group to be set up on a permanent basis and initiated practical cooperation between the territory's stakeholders to enhance the sharing of information and to work towards the future creation of a transboundary observatory. 59