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This activity supports Algeria, Egypt and Palestine in their efforts to apply Managed Artificial Recharge (MAR) in a more consistent and regulated manner, so as to reap the full benefits of this application.
In fact, although MAR is widely used in most South Mediterranean countries on an ad hoc unregulated basis to enhance water supplies, uptake has been constrained by lack of a policy and a clear, consistent regulatory framework that allows the advantages of MAR to be materialized.
National reports will be prepared for each of the three countries including the following:
This activity follows up the development of guidelines for MAR based on global experience and best practices in recharging aquifers that was carried out by SWIM-SM to serve as inspiration for potential adoption and application by South Mediterranean countries.
In this sense it represents a field testing of the developed guidelines in country-specific situations and shall increase the usefulness of the guidelines and their adaptability to national specifications.
This activity aims to improve compliance with water and aquatic environment regulations in the two countries by:
It is a further step in the series of activities carried out by SWIM-SM towards improving compliance and enhancing national enforcement capacities and including:
Effective water governance and rule of law in particular, were identified as some of the main constraints to sustainable and integrated Water Resources Management during the regional dialogue organized by SWIM-SM in 2012. Rule of law was found to be often hampered by insufficient policies, inadequate legislative and regulatory frameworks, ill prepared judiciary systems, limited technical and institutional capacities and lack of appropriate modalities and operating systems to ensure compliance through enforcement.
Hence the importance for supporting South Mediterranean countries in their efforts to improve relevant National policies, legislations and practices through the above mentioned interventions and this activity with focus on Lebanon and Palestine.
The training will introduce the refined version of the MONEVA system - a computer application developed by SWIM-SM to monitor and evaluate the process PIM/IMT - and the procedures that have been recently developed to anchor the use of the system in the pilot countries (Jordan and Tunisia).
Participants will include representatives of the national, regional and local partners involved in the pilot implementation of the M & E system. Relevant stakeholders from Egypt and Palestine, who have expressed their interest for this activity, will also join the training in Jordan.
SWIM-SM had developed in 2013 a regional system to monitor and evaluate the Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) and the Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) process.
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 et 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 will be tested at the regional level in Karameh Directorate, Jordan, including all the WUAs within this directorate and in one of the Agricultural Development Group (Groupement de Developpement Agricole - GDA) within the Regional Agricultural Development Commission of Sousse, Tunisia (Commissariat Régional au Développement Agricole) with up to 10 WUAs.
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
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