ADVANCED MASTER “Water for All” – OpT

To diagnose its service, develop its strategy and implement your achievements at the heart of your service and in the field

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This SPECIALIZED MASTER created in 2009 under the name of ADVANCED MASTER “Water for All” – OpT is one of the components of the AgroParisTech “SUEZ – General Management of Urban Water and Sanitation Services”.

It is aimed at Managers, high-potential executives as well as Operational or Functional Directors of urban water and/or sanitation utilities of public, private or mixed status who have been working in their department for at least 5 years..

It is also intended for any experienced professional presented by his company, its management or its supervisory authority.

It is accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE) of Paris.

It is taught in English for session 2025-2026

The objective of this ADVANCED MASTER is to reinforce skills, progress in their function and prepare trained managers for management functions.

This objective is achieved through the development of a strategic action plan within their scope of service.

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For whom?

The International Executive Master is aimed at managers and executives of urban water and sanitation utilities of public, private or mixed status. It is also aimed at any experienced professional presented by his company, management or supervisory authority

Managers
Engineers
Executives

Training benefits

The SPECIALIZED MASTER “Water for All” – OpT is a unique training course that aims to strengthen your skills as managers of urban drinking water and sanitation services in developing or emerging countries to help you become future leaders of transformation in your company.

The training is organized to lead you towards the three following dimensions:

Development of your managerial knowledge
Development of your sector knowledge
Personal transformation to become a change leader

You will have the ability to take on the dual responsibility, both strategic and operational, necessary to successfully run your department and your teams.

You will be able to :

Ensure the definition of the strategy for your department in the short, medium and long term
Supervise and manage the organizational, technical, human and financial means to achieve the assigned objectives
Carry out communication and representation actions with key players in the socio-economic environment
Conduct fundraising policy and negotiations with key financial partners
Contribute to the definition and monitoring of the implementation of national policies on drinking water supply and sanitation at the national level and specifically in urban centres.
Contribute to the definition and implementation of the institutional and regulatory system of the sector, including private and public operators.

Employer's profits

The manager is trained to propose and carry out the change management as soon as he returns to the company. In a management position, he or she implements his or her knowledge at the heart of his or her department and in the field to apply and share it with the teams in place.

At the end of the training he will be able to :

make a diagnosis of the situation of the different departments
develop strategies in conjunction with the various Operations Managers to improve the technical, social and financial situation
apply sustainable management methods
define and begin to initiate the dynamics of reforms at the level of its department or even of the company

Trainers

The training is provided by our expert lecturers, high-profiles speakers and academic partners in the South with at least 10 years of international experience in the field in Africa or Asia.

The SPECIALIZED MASTER “Water for All” – OpT is currently working with 1 new academic partner in the South

Institute of Technology of Cambodia

Formation

Its final objective is to provide managers with strategic and operational capacities to guarantee a quality, continuous and accessible service to the entire population of their city or even their country when the action plan they have to carry out extends over a national perimeter.

The training adapts to your professional reality by offering you a work-study program (3 months in France, 2 months abroad and then 2 weeks in France).

To be a candidate for this training course
Please download the file in the “for more information” section. It has to be properly filled by you, stamped and signed by your MD and sent back with a complete CV, an ID picture and the copy of your highest diploma by email to charlotte.armant@agroparistech.fr with in copy jean-antoine.faby@agroparistech.fr

4-step training program

Step 1: ON-LINE session starting April 21,2025 (roughly 3h per week)

Program proposed April-September 2025

Leadership and management
Ethics, integrity and behaviour
Strategy and planning
HR and change management

Step 2: Courses in Montpellier – September 29 to December 19,2025

Program through 4 thematic units (UT)

UT1: Management, Strategy and Leadership

Leadership and management
Ethics, integrity and behaviour
Strategy and planning
Organisational complexity
Project and process management
Negotiation
Innovation
HR and change management
Health and safety at work
Teambuilding and intercultutal management
Communication, transparency and accountability
Public speaking and mediatraining

UT2: Governance, Institution and Economics

Global performance & SDGs
Common goods & public services
General economics and department budgets
Financial management and 3T
Regulaton and law
Multi-actor governance and institutions
Contractualisation and PPP
Commercial and customer management
Consultation and citizen participation

UT3: Social, environmental and territorial engineering

Cities and socio-technical infrastructures
Urbanisation and pro poor neighbourhoods
Gender, vulnerability and inclusion
Informal players and small private operators
Corporate social responsibility
Circular economy
Environment, climate and carbon footprint
Public, environmental and global health
Crisis and risk management

UT4: Specialized unit Water OR Sanitation

Courses for WATER specialty

Commercial issues and customer management
Benchmarking
Financial model and pricing
Human resources, professions and skills
Innovation and digital technology in the sector
Integrated water resource management
Environmental impact and energy
NRW
PPPS
Asset management
AFNOR

Courses for SANITATION specialty

Commercial issues and customer management
Benchmarking
Financial model and pricing
Human resources, professions and skills
Innovation and digital technology in the sector
Integrated water resource management
Environmental impact and energy
Reuse and recycling
Non-collective sanitation
Asset management
CWIS
AFNOR
Sanitation strategy

Step 3: Immersion and case study K-OPT in Cambodia from March 23rd to May 24, 2026

One month courses at the Institute of Technology in Phnom Penh with Cambodian lecturers on the following topics:

Leadership and management
Ethics, integrity and behaviour
Innovation
HR and change management
Geopolitics ans geostrategy
Financial management and 3T
Multi-actor governance and institutions
Contractualisation and PPP
Cities and socio-technical infrastructures
Informal players and small private operators
Environment, climate and carbon footprint

For Water specialty managers added topics

Commercial issues and customer management
Benchmarking
Human resources, professions and skills
Environmental impact and energy
Non-revenue water

For Sanitation specialty managers added topics

Commercial issues and customer management
Benchmarking
Environmental impact and energy
Reuse and recycling
Non-collective sanitation

Step 4: 2 weeks in Montpellier in September 2026

These 2 weeks will be dedicated to field trips in France as well as the presentation of your professional thesis

Residency in Montpellier

You must be a manager of urban drinking water or sanitation services, of public, private or mixed status.

You may come from a Ministry in charge of water, sanitation or hydraulics, a regulatory body or a heritage company.

You must have a BAC+5 or possibly a BAC+4.

You must have significant experience in a position of responsibility within your department for at least 5 years.

Your objective must be to improve the quality of the services offered within your entity from an operational and/or managerial point of view.

You must have the endorsement of your management to follow the training, which must have entrusted you with a mission of change management within your company.

You must have a very good level of both oral and written English.

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Testimonials

“This training is very interesting, very different from what we know academically. It’s a very pragmatic master’s degree… allowing me to learn from experiences in other countries.”

Freda BUGENYI
Manager and Senior Engineer-NWSC-Kampala (UGANDA)