Water is too precious to waste...

You are receiving this monthly email alert for your timely information about forthcoming activities and new materials available on the SWIM websites.

We hope you will find it useful and will bring you even closer to the SWIM family!

With best wishes,

The SWIM-SM Team

SWIM- Support Mechanism

• Together with the EU funded projects WATERDISS2.0and PSI ConnectSWIM-SM has organized on 17 December 2013 an e-seminar related to “Integrated Water Resource Management: from principles to implementation” during which it has presented some of its current achievements in promoting the dissemination and uptake of  its activities’ outcomes at the National level. The presentations and other materials of the e-seminar will be available shortly. SWIM-SM has also actively participated in the final Conference of the WATERDISS2.0 project organized in Barcelona on 2-3 December 2013.

• National Consultation on the Cost of Water Degradation and Remediation Actions for the Litani River Basin (Beirut, Lebanon - 12 December 2013): the presentations are available in English. The event’s information note is available in English and French.

• Kick-off Meeting of the Pilot Implementation for the System to Monitor and Evaluate the Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) and Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) Process in Jordan (9 December 2013, Amman): the presentations and materials are available in English.

• National Consultation on the Cost of Water Degradation and Remediation Actions for the Seybouse River Basin (Algiers, Algeria - 26 November 2013): the materials are available in French

• 3^rd SWIM-SM Steering Committee Meeting (Athens, Greece - 12-13 November 2013): a press note is available in English, French and Arabic. Relevant presentations and/or materials are also available in English and French.

• The final version of the Review of the International and Regional Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation Systems with special reference for the Formation and the Support of Water Users Associations is available in English

• The final report of the High level study tour to strengthen political commitment to Participatory Irrigation Management/ Irrigation Management Transfer that took place on 12-18 May 2013 in Turkey is now available also in French

www.swim-sm.eu

SWIM – Demonstration Projects

SWIM - ACLIMAS

Adaptation to Climate Change of the Mediterranean Agricultural Systems

• A field day on the promotion of the ACLIMAS cereal products from Bekaa Valley was organized on 3^rd December in Byblos (Lebanon) in collaboration with the Byblos international festival and the Local Action Group (GAL) Via Appia. At the event took part more than 150 participants, including local authorities, women associations from the Bekaa valley and the Region of Jbeil (Byblos), several NGOs (as child circle, etc..) and a group of CIHEAM-BARI Alumni. Boiled wheat was prepared with nuts and raisin and offered to the citizens participating in the event. The project coordinator consigned the ACLIMAS brochure to the Major of Byblos. 

www.aclimas.eu

SWIM – IMPROWARE

Innovative Means to Protect Water Resources in the Mediterranean Coastal Areas through re-injection of treated water

• The pictures taken during the Awareness Workshop & Focus Group organized in Tunis on  3 October 2013 can be seen by clicking here

• The project’s leaflet is available in English

• An overall presentation of the project is available in English

• Information about the e-learning course – Module 2 on  Socio-economic Impacts of Wastewater Treatment using Natural Systems and related Industrial Application and Development are available in English

The project aims to implement the following activities in the coming weeks/months:

• A Stakeholders Workshop (Tunis, 12.2.2014)
• A High Level Stakeholder Workshop on Water Management Issues (Cairo, 16.2.2014)
• The project’s e-learning programme (3 modules) will start on 15.01.2014

www.improware.eu