The meeting served to review and take stock of the performance, impact and relevance of the SWIM program during its implementation period in Israel.
It involved representatives from different departments of the Israeli Governmental Authority for Water and Sewage and the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection.
The importance of SWIM-SM as a regional platform promoting intra- and inter-sector dialogue and networking was acknowledged by participants who also praised its demand-led nature and the agreed management arrangements, including the Steering Committee as the forum driving the project. Moreover, a set of recommendations were made for improving its impacts including through:
• The set-up of a follow up/monitoring mechanism, particularly regarding the performance of participants in capacity building activities. In that context, the value of study tours as training method for practitioners was emphasised as a tangible contribution to empowering water related institutions and increasing capacities
• further outreach efforts, including through operational synergies and collaborations, to identify and disseminate sustainable water practices and state-of-the-art technologies
• more exercises/practical applications and hands-on demonstrations, ideally in a cross-country composition of expert or working groups
• more presence of European experts and administrators for sharing EU experience and lessons learnt. The missed opportunity of utilising more often Israel as contributor to knowledge sharing events (i.e. speakers, presenters, case studies, etc) was also raised in this context.
Further practical advice was provided on how to make the design and implementation of activities more functional and better adapted to the participant’s conditions.
The trainings introduced the refined version of the MONEVA system created by SWIM-SM to the national, regional and local partners involved in the pilot implementation of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) system, and trained the various types of users on the procedures that have been recently developed to anchor the use of the system in the pilot countries (Jordan and Tunisia, respectively 31 and 24 stakeholders from relevant bodies).
The main purpose of these procedures is to:
• assist the staff of the regional offices and Water Users Associations (WUAs) to collect/enter and process the information required by the MONEVA monitoring and evaluation system in a standard manner and
• facilitate the comparison among the indicators of different WUAs since they are calculated using the same standards.
Two documents, respectively on “Procedures and Data Collection Forms at the local level” and at the Regional level were distributed and explained to all participants. These two documents describe the main characteristics of the recommended business processes and explain to the users (at their respective levels, regional or local) how the data will be collected (methodology), what data to be collected, by whom and when. They also elucidate other descriptive aspects of the process including the purpose of collecting the specific data, the relevance of the data collected to the M&E system, and its relationship with other related variables and indicators. The documents also offer standard data collection/entry and processing forms, with examples of how to fill, enter and process these data, in case that the WUA has no computer facilities .
The adoption of the procedures should take place at the different levels. The various tasks and responsibilities to be undertaken were summarized and recommendations were made for assigning responsibilities to the relevant staff according to the category/type of business process (Technical, financial and administrative, human resources, water productivity, environment, etc.)
The way ahead during the rest of the year was also presented, and an Action Plan for the next 4 months was prepared by the SWIM project and distributed to all parties involved.
The regional system to monitor and evaluate the Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) and the Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) process was developed by SWIM-SM in 2013.
After its conversion to a computer application (MONEVA) in 2014 the system was then pilot tested in Jordan and Tunisia at national, regional (North Directorate and Karameh Directorate in Jordan and the CRDA of Kairouan, Sousse and Monastir) and local levels (WUAs), including trainings of relevant stakeholders.
During 2015 the MONEVA system was refined and its user-friendliness enhanced based on the results of evaluation workshop conducted in September 2014 in the two pilot countries. In addition, SWIM-SM has developed procedures for data collection / entry and processing forms in order to enable the institutionalization of the system in the two pilot countries.
These procedures are being tested at the regional level in Karameh (now called South Shuneh) Directorate, Jordan, including all the WUAs within this directorate and in five Agricultural Development Groups (Groupement de Développement Agricole - GDA) within the Regional Agricultural Development Commission of Sousse, Tunisia (Commissariat Régional au Développement Agricole).
Since MONEVA is applicable only to medium and large sizes WUAs, only those serving more than 100 hectares are considered.
To Read the Information Note related to the training in Jordan click here
To Read the Information Note related to the training in Tunisia click here
A one-day training workshop followed by a three-days study tour in Sicily – Italy (27-30 July 2015), involved 22 representatives of pertinent National institutions and NGOs from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.
They were introduced to a wide array of themes related to the design, construction, operation and management of NTS, both at theoretical and practical levels through lectures and visits to different natural Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs). This has helped the participants refresh their theoretical knowledge and fine- tune it with hands-on experience, while the participants with less experience learned new material. The visit to natural treatment systems (NTSs) provided the participants a firsthand view of a wide variety of natural technologies, mainly suitable for rural areas.
As a capacity development tool, the workshop and study tour were highly appreciated because participants could see how NTSs are operated and managed and exchanged knowledge with operators with a long-term experience in a region (Sicily) with environmental and climatic conditions very similar to those of participants’ regions.
The activity was organized in collaboration with the University of Catania, Italy.
To download the materials and documents click here
An online course provided to 13 pertinent actors from Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine a systematic understanding of process design procedures for low-cost natural wastewater treatment systems which can be applicable to South Mediterranean countries, including waste stabilization ponds, anaerobic systems, soil aquifer treatment and constructed wetlands.
The online course was delivered through a Virtual Learning Environment, \"eCampus\" and was taught over a period of 3 months (12 weeks). It required participants to spend about 8 hours per week on average through reading, discussion and assignments consisted of video-recorded lectures, PowerPoint presentations with voice-over, lecture handouts for participant\'s self study and assignments.
A discussion forum also enabled participants to communicate online with each other and with the course coordinator.
The activity was implemented in collaboration with UNESCO-IHE.
To download the materials of the course click here
الاجتماع الوطني للمراجعة في الأردن (11 يونيو 2015 - وزارة المياه والري - عمان، الأردن)
قدم الاجتماع استعراضاً وتقييماً للأداء والتأثير وأهمية برنامج الادارة المتكاملة والمستدامة للمياه خلال فترة تنفيذه في الأردن.
حضر الاجتماع 20 مشاركا، بدعوة من وزارة المياه والري، وهي نقطة اتصال مشروع الادارة المتكاملة والمستدامة للمياه - آلية دعم SWIM-SM في الأردن، بما في ذلك: ممثلين عن بعثة الاتحاد الأوروبي في الأردن، قطاع المياه في البلاد (وزارة المياه والري، سلطة وادي الأردن و سلطة المياه الأردنية)، وزارات الزراعة والبيئة والتخطيط بالإضافة إلى هيئة التنمية الالمانية GIZ، وخبراء برنامج الادارة المتكاملة والمستدامة للمياه من كلا المكونين (آلية الدعم والمشروعات الاسترشادية(
إقرأ المزيد
وقد تم إطلاع المشاركين على جميع أنشطة برنامج الادارة المتكاملة والمستدامة للمياه SWIM المتعلقة بالبلاد مع التركيز على الأهداف والإنجازات والدروس المستفادة الرئيسية التي يمكن أن تكون بمثابة توصيات للمشروعات المستقبلية في المنطقة، بما في ذلك:
• أهمية المرونة للتكيف مع التطورات الاجتماعية والسياسية السريعة في دول المنطقة؛
• تعزيز الروابط بين المكونات (مثل أنشطة المساعدة الفنية والأنشطة الاسترشادية)؛
• الحاجة لتكثيف التدخلات المتعددة بدلا من التدخلات الواسعة؛
• مراقبة أفضل لأداء المتدربين ودورهم المحتمل للمساهمة في قضايا المياه في بلادهم.
• مساندة سياسية قوية لضمان الاستمرارية والتتابع.
• عظيم قيمة أفضل الممارسات وقصص النجاح والفشل في دول جنوب البحر المتوسط، وتعزيز التعاون فيما بين دول الجنوب (تبادل الزيارات والتدريب(
وعلاوة على ذلك، تم اعلام المشاركين أيضا عن الأنشطة القادمة أو الجارية التي نفذت او تنفذ خلال عام 2015 من خلال آلية الدعم أو المشروعات الاسترشادية ذات الصلة بالأردن والأنشطة الإقليمية الأخرى ذات الاهتمام بآلية الدعم SWIM-SM .
ويخطط مشروع الادارة المتكاملة والمستدامة للمياه - آلية دعم لتنظيم اجتماعات مراجعة وطنية في الدول المستفيدة الأخرى في الأشهر المقبلة.
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Requirements
تقع مسؤوليّة إدارة الموقع على عاتق آليّة دعم الإدارة المستدامة والمتكاملة للمياه