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INTEGRATED
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
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TECHNICAL ASSISTANC
TO THE MINISTRY FOR WATER
RESOURCES AND IRRIGATION FOR
THE PREPARATION OF AN
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OF THE
MWRI INSTITUTIONAL REFORM
VISION
(IR Vision Implementation
Plan)
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Project Description |
Challenges facing the water sector in Egypt are enormous and require
mobilizing and managing all
resources in an integrated
manner. Coping with current
reform strategies, MWRI (Ministry
for Water Resources and
Irrigation)
has established an IRU in 2002
to coordinate, monitor and
support MWRI’s institutional
reform efforts on basis of a
participatory approach with
consultation from various
stakeholders within and outside
the MWRI. IRU has prepared a
comprehensive Vision and
Strategy for MWRI Institutional
Reform.
The IRU reform vision draws its
principle from well established
world standards for reform. The
formulation of the strategic
plans follows a broader
perspective with a participatory
approach entailing a drive for
change from within the ministry
itself and involving
distribution of responsibility
and authority among
stakeholders.
NSCE is joining forces with ECO
CONSERV to support the
implementation of the agreed
Vision/Strategy by preparing an
implementation plan.
NSCE’s Main Tasks:
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Prepare overall vision implementation plan 2017
(assessing the implications
of the strategy/program
areas on the different
sectors of the MWRI)
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Prepare supplemental
studies (literature review,
review of secondary data,
and in-depth interviews with
samples from stakeholders
related to each study
subject)
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Prepare detailed
rolling vision
implementation plan
2007-2012 (At this stage an
institutional design needs
assessment will be conducted
to provide inputs for
finalizing the 8 strategies
milestones and formulating
detailed tasks lists)
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Assist MWRI in
Vision Implementation
Planning Process 2007-2012
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Backstopping, Monitoring,
Evaluation and Quality
Control
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Period |
Mar. - Nov. 06
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Donor |
GTZ |
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Country |
EGYPT |
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A
PRELIMINARY STUDY TO
IDENTIFY THE KEY PLAYERS TO
ASSURE A WELL-ORGANIZED,
EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE
EXPANSION OF THE
QUALIFICATION PROGRAM OF THE
AWMP
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Project Description |
The objective
of the Agricultural Water
Management Project is to assist
the agricultural water users
with regard to water management
in
Egypt’s
Old Lands in order to be
improved by 2011. One of the
core activities of the project
is to qualify the Extension
staff Irrigation Advisory
Services and Key farmers (Water
Users Organizations). The
project prepares the qualified
people to support farmers and
water users in their decision
making process, through
providing farmers with different
options that are suitable to
their socio-economic conditions.
The project has been mandated
until end of 2008 to work in two
governorates, Beheira and Kafr
el Sheikh, where the national
Irrigation Improvement Project
(IIP) is being implemented. For
the third phase of the project,
the Ministry of Agricultural
Land Reclamation is planning to
expand the qualification program
on the national level, i.e. to
other governorates, where the
IIP will be later implemented. Egypt can be subdivided into 5 agro-ecological
zones (Western delta, Middle
Delta, Eastern Delta, Central
Egypt, and Upper Egypt). The main purpose of the study is to identify
the key players in
representative locations (in 5
zones) who are assuring the
sustainability of the extension
plan introduced by the
Agricultural Water Management
Project.
Type of services provided:
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The study included a
selection (with the
project’s staff support) of
representative locations in
the 5 different
agro-ecological zones of
Egypt
(Western delta, Middle
Delta, Eastern Delta,
Central Egypt, and
Upper Egypt).
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It identified the
main features of water
management in each of the 5
selected locations.
Then the study will proceed with
the identification of the NGOs
concerned with the empowerment
and support of water users as
well as water management.
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Period |
Aug. 07- Sept. 07
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Donor |
GTZ
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Country |
EGYPT |
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ENHANCING
AWARENESS ON INSTITUTIONAL
REFORM WITH THE MINISTRY AND
AMONG KEY STAKEHOLDERS
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Project Description |
Water
shortage, agriculture expansion
and water pollution are the main
challenges facing the water
sector in
Egypt.
These challenges require
mobilizing and managing all
available resources in an
integrated manner. MWRI is the
sole entity responsible for the
establishment and management of
the water resources system and
its networks (irrigation,
drainage, and groundwater).
Based on the above-mentioned
challenges, MWRI recognized that
an integrated approach for water
resources management constitutes
a crucial need at this stage to
eliminate and face those
challenges.
In this
context, there is a need to
mobilize the commitment and
support of all MWRI staff and
other stakeholders such as
concerned ministries, public and
private organizations in order
to implement the Ministry IR
since they are the implementers
and partially beneficiaries.
Current MWRI mid-level and
junior staff will be the top
management of the Ministry in
the future and will be the prime
actors in the implementation of
the IR process. They will also
be directly affected by the
changes. Thus, there is a
crucial need for them to be
fully aware of the institutional
reform concepts, process, and
implications. This commitment
can be achieved through
awareness and consultation.
The IRU plan
of operation has five outputs,
one of which is "involving MWRI
and its development partners."
This output has a number of
tasks to be achieved out of
which is to "inform MWRI
Mid-Level Staff on the IR."
The
Institutional reform Unit (IRU)
has requested North South
Consultants Exchange (NSCE) to
submit a proposal to conduct
five awareness workshops as
described in the TOR. These
workshops would help to enhance
the awareness on MWRI-IR within
the Ministry and among
stakeholders.
The overall
objective of the awareness
workshops is to mobilize the
commitment and support of MWRI
mid-level and junior staff as
well as other stakeholders to
embrace IR Vision/Strategies and
actively participate in the
implementation process.
The specific objectives
of the workshops are to:
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Inform
the participants about the
Institutional Reform Vision/
Strategy
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Update the knowledge of the
participants about IR Vision
implementation plan,
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Present in brief the
Institutional Reform Unit
plan of operation.
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Reviewing all related
materials to IR
Vision/Strategy and its
implementation plan.
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Identification of type and
density of information
transferred to participants
during IR Vision/Strategy
development process (in
collaboration with IRU).
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Designing of workshop
scenario and preparation of
its materials and
presentations.
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Conducting five workshops
in five regions (one for
each region): East Delta,
Middle Delta, West Delta,
Middle Egypt and
Upper
Egypt and its reports.
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Design impact monitoring
system and conducting field
monitoring visits to
workshops participants to
measure their level of
awareness after certain
period of the workshops
implementation. In addition,
to investigate level of
awareness of sample of their
colleagues who did not
attend the workshops in
order to measure level of
influence and knowledge
transfer for further
recommendations.
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Identification and formalizing conclusions on the
workshops implementation,
assessment of the
participants level of
awareness (before and after
the workshops) and
recommendations on further
awareness activities and
tools needed based on
lessons learned during the
implementation of the
assignment.
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Period |
Dec. 06 - Jun. 07
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Donor |
Royal Netherlands Embassy |
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Country |
EGYPT |
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MWRI Staff
Capacity-building within the
Context of Institutional
Reform
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Project Description |
The IRU
completion of the first phase in
2005 resulted in the development
of a vision/strategy for the
institutional reform of MWRI.
The developed vision is the
backbone of the MWRI local
administrations restructuring
from centralized into
decentralized organization. The
reform process has been divided
in 8 strategies namely;
decentralization, participation,
water quality, private sector
participation, coordination at
central and governorate levels,
developing management systems of
some activities and assets;
hydrological basin organization
and cost sharing.
Within this
context North South Consultants
Exchange (NSCE) with its
partner, EcoConServ, are
supporting/assisting IRU in the
formulation of MWRI – IR Vision/
Strategy overall implementation
plan 2007-2017 and its rolling
plan 2007-2012. In which
milestones, activities
indicators, timeframe and needed
resources were developed for
each reform strategy.
The consultant
will work closely with NSCE and
the IRU in order to analyze the
existing organizational
structure and to assess the
current staff capacity. The
consultant will review the
Vision Implementation Plan
documents and other relevant
documents to identify required
strengths for the MWRI to enable
it to build the suitable cadres
for Integrated Water Resources
Management.
Main
tasks:
Training Needs
Assessment:
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Identify the skills and
capacities for the staff
involved in each strategy at
different managerial levels
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Design of training needs
assessment plan and tools of
implementation
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Validate the TNA tools
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Data
Compilation and Structural
Functional Analysis:
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Review
the data analysis
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Identify the training needs
for each of the 8 strategies
taking into consideration
the overlaps of modules and
topics
Design of
the Training Programs and M&E
indicators
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Develop
of detailed training
programs
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Design of monitoring and
evaluation of the training
programs regarding progress
and quality
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Design of monitoring and
evaluation for impact
assessment of the trainees
before and after the
training courses
Delivery of
Consultation Workshop
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Period |
Dec. 06 - Jun. 07
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Donor |
Royal Netherland's Embassy |
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Country |
EGYPT |
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EVALUATION IMPACT OF DUTCH
COOPERATION IN WATER
MANAGEMENT ON POVERTY
ALLEVIATION IN EGYPT
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Project Description |
The
year 1975 was the beginning of
the bilateral development
cooperation between Egypt and
the Netherlands. Overall aim of
the cooperation has been to
support Egypt in the achievement
of sustainable economic and
social development. The aid
program has been mainly working
in four different sectors with
an emphasis on the sector water
management.
Poverty alleviation is one of
the targets addressed by most of
the development projects in
developing countries but it is
not directly related with the
different Dutch-Egyptian
cooperation activities in the
water sector. However, one can
pursue it through indirect
impact of the different
implemented projects.
As the Egyptian Dutch
cooperation will phase out after
2004, NSCE has been commissioned
to carry out a study on the
overall impact of the water
management projects on poverty
alleviation.
The tasks of NSCE include the
selection of sample projects
that will be subject of the
study and the review of all the
project documents and the
related evaluation reports of
these selected projects. After
finishing the deskwork,
fieldwork is carried out by NSCE
in pilot areas to evaluate the
impacts of the different
projects on poverty alleviation
by interviewing key informants
from a wide range of Dutch and
Egyptian key stakeholders.
Finally, the results of the
study are documented in the
final report.
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Period |
Jan. 03 - May 03
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Donor |
Egyptian Dutch Advisory Panel
Project on water Management
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Country |
EGYPT |
AGRICULTURAL DRAINAGE:
TOWARDS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY
AND INTEGRATED APPROACH
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Project Description |
For
a study of the Rural Development
Department of the World Bank
consisting of a comparative
investigation in a country and
in five developing countries
that represent different
drainage situation, NSCE has
been subcontracted the study and
analysis of Egypt’s drainage
situation by ARCADIS EUROCONSULT
The
study, which is sponsored by the
Bank-Netherlands Partnership
Program /
Water-Environment window will
include case studies from
Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia,
Mexico, Pakistan, and the
Netherlands. Its aim is to
contribute to improving design
and implementation of
interventions in the drainage
sector, which meet users, and
donors’ objectives to produce
integrated and sustainable
drainage development. This
will be achieved through the
definition of a typology of
drainage situations based on
technical-physical,
social-managerial and
environmental criteria, and by
pointing at different objectives
of drainage when addressing
local diversity. The study will
identify different institutional
models for drainage management,
analyze best practices for
different drainage situations,
and develop a framework to
better understand and recognize
drainage interaction between
different elements of the
hydrologic cycle and different
water using sectors as part of
integrated water resource
management
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Period |
2002
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Donor |
Rural Development Department of
the World Bank
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Country |
EGYPT |
NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES
PLAN PROJECT
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Project Description |
The
National Water Resources Plan
Project started in 1998 for a
period of 4 years. On behalf of
the project, NSCE assessed and
formulated a plan for a
nationwide consultation and
public awareness about NWRP.
The
overall objective of the project
is to assist the Ministry of
Water Resources
 and
Irrigation with the development
of a National Water Resources
Plan that will outline how Egypt
will safeguard its water
resources in the future, both
with respect to quantity and
quality and how it will use its
resources in the best way from a
socio-economic and environmental
point of view. Representatives
of various Ministry of Water
Resources and Irrigation (MWRI)
departments and from public and
private stakeholders outside the
Ministry are involved in the
consultation process that is
being implemented mostly through
workshops that are meant to
introduce the NWRP project’s
objectives, methodology and
accomplishments and to discuss
problems related to water
resource planning and possible
solutions. In addition to these
institutional bodies
consultative meetings with
representative stakeholders of
both the public and private
sector at decentralized level
started.
Though NWRP project’s
collaboration capitalizes on
joint experience, networks,
resources and efforts at all
levels, some constraints were
faced and the project
representatives expressed
concerns on the effectiveness of
the consultations with both
governmental and private
stakeholders, and invited NSCE
to develop a proposal, and
subsequently implement a study
and formulate a plan that would
address the identified problems.
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Period |
Jul. 2002 – Sep. 2002
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Donor |
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign
Affair |
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Country |
EGYPT |
IMPLEMENTATION OF A
TRAINING- & WORKSHOP
PROGRAMME ON
INSTITUTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND
ORGANIZATIONAL
STRENGTHENING
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Project Description |
NSCE was subcontracted by
the Management for
Development Foundation
(MDF) of Ede, the
Netherlands, to provide
technical, organizational
and administrative services
in the form of workshop
facilita tion
and co-moderation, workshop
documentation,
administration, workshop
translation and logistic
assistance, during the
implementation of a training
and combined workshop
programme on Institutional
Development and
Organizational
Strengthening.
The scope of the programme
was on how to assess the
changing institutional
environment of both the
Egyptian Ministry of Water
Resources and Irrigation
(MWRI) and the Egyptian
Public Authority for
Drainage Projects (EPADP),
and on how to decide on
priorities for institutional
development and
organizational
strengthening. The program
is considered to be a first
step in providing the senior
managers of EPADP with the
skills on how to address the
required managerial capacity
building and policy making
capacity of EPADP to cope
with the institutional
reform process, initiated by
the MWRI. The assignment
consists of three training
stages with each stage
lasting for 6 days.
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Period |
April 2002-October 2002
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Donor |
Netherlands Ministry of
Foreign Affairs /The
Netherlands Embassy
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Country |
EGYPT |
INTESP PUBLIC AWARENESS
CAMPAIGN
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Project Description |
 NSCE
has been commissioned by the
Egyptian Public Authority
for Drainage Projects
(EPADP) to design and
supervise the production of
a public awareness campaign
to support the Ministry of
Water Resources and
Irrigation (MWRI) in its
effort to transfer
responsibility of drainage
organization and maintenance
to farmers and other target
groups.
NSCE is carrying out the
assignment through a
comprehensive participatory
rapid appraisal (PRA) with
all involved stakeholders,
such as farmers, water users
and EPADP staff, in four
pilot areas. On the basis of
the PRA results, NSCE
developed and facilitated
the implementation of a
public awareness campaign
for a participatory drainage
extension program. This
included the development and
design of a set of public
awareness tools, and the
training of Drainage
Engineers on how to make
best use of the said
material.
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Period |
April 2001 – August 2002
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Donor |
Netherlands Ministry of
Foreign Affairs/The
Netherlands Embassy
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Country |
EGYPT |
FAYOUM WATER MANAGEMENT
PROJECT –III (FWMP III)
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Project Description |
The FWMP is an
Egyptian-Netherlands
Development Co-operation
programme aime d
at increasing the efficiency
and equitable use of water
in operation and maintenance
through irrigation
rehabilitation, improved
channel maintenance, and
through an increasing
attention to institutional
development and farmers
participation. FWMP III
goals are to enhance the
structure and function of
the local water boards,
establish and test the
concept of participatory
integrated water management
at district level. In
accordance with the
institutional reform goals,
NSCE was commissioned to
provide communication and
cooperation training to the
project engineers to improve
the project’s internal and
external communication. NSCE
designed the material,
methods and facilities
needed for training,
produced a detailed training
programme in Arabic and
English and prepared a
course manual and
implemented a 3-day training
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Period |
April 2002- May 2002
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Donor |
The Netherlands Embassy
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Country |
EGYPT |
EPADP TRAINING NEEDS
ASSESSMENT
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Project Description |
 The
Egyptian Public Authority
for Drainage Projects
(EPADP) is embarking on a
new phase of its
organization development.
Since its creation in 1973,
EPADP has been growing and
adapting internally to
respond to the task of
implementing the world
largest drainage
construction program in a
timely manner and in
accordance to worldwide
approved technical
standards.
The Institutional and
Technical Support Project
(INTESP) initiated to
support EPADP and the MWRI
in its institutional
transformation, It is
currently prioritizing its
technical aims towards
improving lines of
communications and levels of
interaction between EPADP
staff and local stakeholders
in an attempt to reach a
level of sustainable
networking system. INTESP
has commissioned NSCE to
assess EPADP’s training
needs with regards to the
above stated by carrying out
a comprehensive training
needs assessment and to
elaborate a detailed
training plan with regards
to communication,
participatory approaches and
quality management.
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Period |
July – September 2001
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Donor |
Netherlands Ministry of
Foreign Affair |
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Country |
EGYPT |
INSTITUTIONAL NEEDS
ASSESSMENT AND
ESTABLISHMENT OF
DRAINAGE USERS'
ASSOCIATION
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Project Description |
 The
Second National Drainage
Project, a World Bank
supported project with a
grant from the Japanese
Government, aims at
increasing agricultural
productivity in Egypt
through drainage
improvement. Thus raising
rural incomes based on the
diversified, and sustainable
production, resulting from
appropriate uses of land,
and water resources. Two of
the Project’s components,
specifically focus on (1)
supporting the management of
the Egyptian Public
Authority for Drainage
Projects (EPADP), and
institutional building
through technical
assistance; (2) training
provision, to establish
pilot schemes for
integrating irrigation, and
drainage user's associations
in two Governorates. NSCE
was commissioned to
establish an institutional
needs assessment for the
organizational structure and
function of the headquarters
and regional directorates of
EPADP, including assessment
of staffing, training needs
and information flow; and an
assessment of the viability
of establishing Drainage
Users Associations (DUAs)
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Period |
2000-2001
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Donor |
ARCADIS EUROCONSULT
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Country |
EGYPT |
MANUAL CHANNEL
MAINTENANCE PROJECT
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Project Description |
 The
Manual Channel Maintenance
Project (MCMP) was
implemented “to build
planning and supervision
capacity within the Ministry
of Water Resources and
Irrigation (MWRI), and to
ensure sustainability of
manual channel maintenance
(MCM) as an integrated
activity within the
ministry.
NSCE was commissioned to
review the technical
assistance component of the
Manual Channel Maintenance
Project Phase II (MCMP-II)
and to determine the level
of experience, the degrees
of responsibilities, main
tasks, perceived performance
gaps, etc. Participants in
the area of participatory
approaches were exposed to
manual channel management,
and to different ways of
determining performance gaps
resulting from Knowledge,
Skills, Attitudes and
Practices (KSAP),
deficiencies or a
combination of all of them.
Based on the analysis of the
training needs and the level
of performance, NSCE
tailored a suitable training
program that targeted
priority performance
improvement in the
identified areas and
eventually trained 113
district engineers and
trainers in participatory
approaches for manual
channel maintenance.
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Period |
2000-2001
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Donor |
ARCADIS EUROCONSULT
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Country |
EGYPT |
WATER SUPPLY AND
SANITATION SECTOR
EVALUATION IN BENI SUEF/
EGYPT (WSS)
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Project Description |
 The
Department of International
Development Cooperation
(DIDC) of the Finnish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
conducted a customary sector
performance evaluation for
the water supply and
sanitation sector (WSS). The
evaluation study was carried
out in five core recipient
countries in the sector,
among which is Egypt.
The general objective of
this study was to improve
future aid policy and
interventions. The specific
objectives formulated were:
to assess the deliverance
and overall performance of
DIDC's assistance programs
in the WSS sector; and to
provide a basis for
accountability. High
attention was provided to
the functioning of water and
sanitation management
systems, especially in terms
of efficiency and
effectiveness.
NSCE took part in this
worldwide study by planning
& executing the customary
performance for the WSS in
Egypt.
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Period |
Nov.2000 – March 2001
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Donor |
Finnish Government |
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Country |
EGYPT |
FAYOUM DRINKING WATER AND
SANITATION
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Project Description |
The
Fayoum Drinking Water and
Sanitation Project (FaDWaSP) aims
to assist the Fayoum Economic
General Authority for Water and
Sanitation FEGAWS to (i)
increase its coverage both in
quantity and quality of water
supply and sewerage to the
entire population of the
Governorate of Fayoum and to
(ii) improve its recovery of
operation and maintenance cost
through a mix of technical
assistance and investments. By
the end of the project, 95% of
the population (now 55%) will
have access to piped water
supply and 25% of all households
(now 13%) will be connected to a
sewer.
Hygiene and Gender have always
been considered in designing
project strategies. In this
context NSCE was commissioned
the evaluation of an on-site
sanitation scheme to determine
the socio-economically
acceptability of latrines. From
2000 till date two NSCE
consultants are involved in the
implementation of the gender and
hygiene components for the last
phase of the project, including
school hygiene promotion program
and mainstreaming gender in the
Economic Water Authority.
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Period |
1996- 2002
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Donor |
The
Netherlands Embassy |
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Country |
EGYPT |
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Project Description |
The
Water Boards Project was
established by the Government of
Egypt with assistance from the
Government of the Netherlands.
The project is testing different
possibilities for participation
water management at secondary
levels, through the
establishment of Water Boards.
Formed and run by the users
themselves, the Water Boards
will contribute to better water
use efficiency, management and
distribution. This will be
achieved through regular user-to
user communication and
coordination with government
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The
Water Boards will contribute to
the formulation and approval of
a new national policy of
irrigation water management,
based on farmer participation,
at the level of secondary
canals. The Project will develop
a legal framework for
participatory water management
at secondary level that can be
applied to the whole of Egypt.
It will concentrate on the
institutional aspects of water
management rather than on
construction or rehabilitation
activities. NSCE in a consortium
with Royal Haskoning and IWACO
Egypt is providing the project
with technical assistance in
different areas. |
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Period |
1999 – 2003
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Donor |
The
Netherlands Embassy |
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Country |
EGYPT |
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