The World Water Week started for WBCSD with a snappy discussion on the key role of strategic partnerships for resource recovery and reuse. To operationalize the latter on the scale we need today sustainable business models and enabling environments need to be put in place. Johannes Heeb from Cewas outlined a new partnership concept: it's not anymore about business development but about bisNET development, as a multitude of businesses need to get involved throughout the resource recovery and reuse value chain.
The WBCSD is currently developing a business to business and public private partnership model to scale up existing solutions for low income urban environments. And we started the process from the end, by looking at scale first, then work on business development and land on the necessary implementation mechanisms in different local contexts.
The possibility of tension between different players in the cooperation game has been raised with a conclusion that partners with competitive advantage must be able to build on each other's strengths to reach a competitive advantage at the global scale...together. Tension can also be positive in the process, as it spurs creativity and innovative thinking.
Listen to Miriam Otoo, from the International Water Management Institute who was convening the session, speak about the key role of strategic partnerships in resource recovery and reuse:
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