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UfM Launch of the 'Governance and Financing in the Mediterranean Water Sector' Project
Five countries are participating in the first phase of this project with an overall budget of 2 Million Euros: Lebanon, Tunisia, Jordan, Albania and Palestine. The project has the financial support of the EIB. The promoters and the UfM Secretariat will mobilize other donors for the remaining financing needs.
The Senior Officials of the 43 country members of the UfM recently approved the project entitled “Overcoming governance challenges to the mobilisation of financing for the Mediterranean water sector” promoted jointly by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Global Water Partnership- Mediterranean.
This regional project which will be conducted over a period of 3 years, aims to identify and provide realistic solutions to the lack of basic elements of a sound governance framework in many of the Mediterranean countries, including absorption capacity at both national and local levels, for the mobilisation of financing for the Mediterranean water sector. It will build on earlier work jointly carried out by the GWP-Med and the OECD in Egypt (completed), Lebanon (completed) and Tunisia (in progress).
The project will focus on assessing the opportunities and institutional and regulatory challenges arising from public-private partnerships (PPPs) in water infrastructure, as a tool in the hand of policy makers to managing water resources and financing services in an effective, sustainable and affordable manner. Stemming from the assessment, it will provide a diagnosis of the key governance and capacity building bottlenecks that impede the financing and of the mechanisms to overcome them, in the form of a set of operational guidance and a compendium of good practices.
These key analyses and common denominators will lead to the endorsement – even as pilot cases – of the mechanisms considered most suitable to the country context, through country policy dialogues, and using participatory approaches.
| Contact information |
Environment and Water Division, Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean: Palacio de Pedralbes Calle Pere Duran Farell 11 08034 Barcelona, Spain
(email: water@ufmsecretariat.org) Phone: +34 935 214 161 |
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| Event type | Conference |
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| Source | Environment and Water Division, Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean |
| Subject(s) | HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , WATER DEMAND |
| Relation | http://ufmsecretariat.org/mediterranean-water-governance/ |
| Geographical coverage | Spain |
| Address | Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean: Palacio de Pedralbes Calle Pere Duran Farell 11 08034 Barcelona |
| Organizer | Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean |
| Target audience | Regional |
| Period | [28/05/2013 - 29/05/2013] |
| Status | Confirmed |
| Working language(s) | ARABIC , ENGLISH , FRENCH |
