A two-day regional workshop involving experts from the SWIM Partner Countries was organized on 23-24 April 2012 in Athens with the aim to:
a) promote sharing of experiences and best practices in the establishment and operationalization of WUAs in the region and
b) discuss / validate the findings of a SWIM-SM Regional Assessment illustrating the range of experiences – both successful and less successful - in water users’ participation with regard to irrigation, complemented with specific case studies coming from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia. The Regional Assessment was conducted in cooperation with and input from the SWIM National Focal Points and involved relevant stakeholders.
Twenty (20) international, regional and local experts from seven countries participated in the regional workshop, including representatives of governments, WUAs, regional organisations and donors in addition to non-governmental organisations involved in the establishment and empowerment of WUAs in the region.
Among outcomes, the workshop identified gaps and concrete follow-up actions for the SWIM-SM Project to undertake, including targeted capacity building and trainings in order to improve local water management and reinforce users’ participation in irrigation management.
Opportunities for networking between the countries’ representatives and international, regional and independent experts were also created.
The workshop falls under one of the four thematic pillars of the SWIM project involving enhancement of knowledge on ‘water governance at the local level’ with emphasis for the first year on experiences in Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) and irrigation management transfer for WUAs in the region.
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The training course has been organized within the framework of the ENPI Horizon 2020 CB/MEP and SWIM-SM projects and involved the participation of 34 representatives from relevant Ministries, public water and wastewater agencies, Universities and other bodies from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia.
The course introduced participants to:
- the state-of-the-art of wastewater reuse schemes, including innovative and adaptable treatment technologies
- Technologies for artificial recharge with treated wastewater, and their role in wastewater reuse schemes
- State-of-the-art in desalination processes and their economic, energy and environmental impacts.
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The course was organized within the framework of the ENPI Horizon 2020 CB/MEP project in collaboration with SWIM-Support Mechanism.
It involved the participation of 25 representatives from relevant Ministries, public agencies and water utilities, including from the following SWIM Partner Countries: Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.
The course served to familiarize the participants with the concept of PPP for different projects, identification of risks and risk sharing methods as well as their implications. It consisted of four main parts: (1) Background and type of PSPs (Private Sector Participation)and selection methodology, (2) Enabling environment and risk management and allocation (3) Financial considerations and modelling, and (4) Case studies.
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The Launching Workshop of SWIM and 1st Steering Committee Meeting of SWIM-SM have been organised with the aim of:
i) providing a forum for the exchange of views on the Programme’s objectives, planned activities and aimed outputs with a view to assist the effective implementation and tangible results;
ii) exploring possible synergies with relevant on-going projects and initiatives and
iii) facilitating outreach and dissemination of information to a group of selected partner organizations, institutions, programmes and initiatives and;
iv) promoting constructive dialogue and consultation on the Inception Report of SWIM-SM.
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Agenda of the launching worksho
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