Association for Water and Environmental Protection
Association for Water and Environmental Protection
On May 28 and 29, 2024, the Association for Water and Environmental Protection "Aquasan Network in BiH" organized a two-day training in Sarajevo as part of the D-LeaP Program Integrated Asset Management.
The objective of the training was to familiarize the participants with the legal and institutional framework of integrated asset management, for the sake of a better understanding of roles and responsibilities in this process, as well as to expand the participants' knowledge of the technical and financial aspects of integrated asset management. In addition, through the joint capacity development of local government units (LGUs) and public water supply/utility companies (PUCs), better cooperation and improvement of the basic principles and procedures of asset management at the level of LGUs will be enabled, and efforts will be made to overcome challenges for the management of communal water infrastructure.
The program was implemented through interactive training that included theoretical and practical education. Through two days of work through presentations, working groups, discussions and practical examples, the participants had the opportunity to calculate the tariff of water services with an emphasis on the share of depreciation costs of fixed assets. The calculation was supposed to show the way how to secure funds for investment maintenance of the assets from water services tariff. In addition, they had the opportunity to assess the critical assets of the water and sewage systems through group work and to assess the risk factor and probability factor for the same, define the obligations of LGUs and PUCs in the process of asset management and enter them into the Public Service Agreement. Also the method of recording fixed assets in the general ledger of the JLS through the development of an auxiliary book of fixed assets, the formation of commissions for the transfer and registration of assets in the JSL books, and the possibility of entrusting the registered assets to the management and maintenance of PUCs
The training was attended by 25 participants in front of 8 PUCs and 7 LGUs, and the program was subsidized by the funds of the Danube Water Program (DWP).