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Launching of MDGs Monitoring and Evaluation for Water in North Africa “MEWINA” Project
CEDARE has just signed project agreement with African Water Facility for a “Regional Program for Monitoring & Evaluation of the MDGs & the Water Sector in North Africa” (MEWINA project). With a budget of about 1.9 million Euros, the project is divided into 4 components including:
COMPONENT 1: Assessment of existing M&E Systems
COMPONENT II: Standardizing and harmonizing National and N-AMCOW M&E systems and reporting
COMPONENT III: Preparing a North African M&E Action Plan and Program
COMPONENT IV: Project Management
The project is expected to establish national units for Water Monitoring & Evaluation within the main ministry in-charge of water at the national level in the 6 North African countries. Coordinated at the national level by a national focal point, the national units will work with a national task force consisting of representatives from the main water-related ministries and authorities at the national level. The project will provide these national units with the necessary equipment, and will develop national capacities for better harmonization, standardization, and sharing of water related information. With North Africa being the first sub-region in Africa to start the M&E Water program under AMCOW, the expected harmonized Water M&E system at the North African sub-regional level, will eventually be replicated and implemented at the Pan-African level.
Project coordinator CEDARE has organized in Cairo the Launching regional workshop on launching the MEWINA project: “MDGs Monitoring and Evaluation for Water in North Africa-MEWINA Project” on the 31st of January, 2012. As the Technical Secretariat of the North African Ministers Council on Water-NAMCOW and hosting organization of the project’s Regional Management Unit, the Centre for Environment and Development in the Arab Region and Europe-CEDARE.
Implemented under the umbrella of the African Ministers Council on Water-AMCOW and funded by the African Water Facility-AWF, the project has a regional outreach that covers the 6 countries of the north-African sub-region: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, & Tunisia.
The Opening ceremony commenced at 9:30 a.m. with the opening session and ends with a press conference. Then significant presentations by outstanding speakers took place till the end of day 2. Day 3 was scheduled for training the MEWINA regional and national team on the logistical and financial rules and procedures of the project.
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Related information:
The Regional Launching Workshop of “MDGs Monitoring and Evaluation for Water in North Africa-MEWINA Project”, 31st January – 2nd February, 2012,Cairo, Egypt: http://namcow.cedare.int/namcow/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=473
http://www.cedare.int/namcow/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=487
http://hebdo.ahram.org.eg/arab/ahram/2012/2/8/envi2.htm
http://namcow.cedare.int/namcow/
http://water.cedare.int/cedare.int/Main.aspx
http://namcow.cedare.int/namcow/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=505
http://174.129.40.80/en/projects/monitoring-evaluation-for-water-in-north-africa-project-mewina
| Contact information |
Dr. Khaled AbuZeid, MEWINA Regional Coordinator, CEDARE, 2 ElHegaz Street, Roxy, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
(email: kabuzeid@cedare.org) Phone: +202-2451-3921/2/3/4, Ext 665 Fax: +202-2451-3918 |
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| News type | Inbrief |
| File link |
http://namcow.cedare.int/namcow/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68:cedare-signs-project-agreement-with-african-water-facility-for-a-regional-program-for-monitoring-a-evaluation-of-the-mdgs-a-the-water-sector-in-north-africa&catid=77:home&Itemid=468 |
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| Source of information | N-AMCOW (The North-African Ministers Council on Water) |
| Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , TOOL TERMS , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY |
| Relation | http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/mewina/ |
| Geographical coverage | Egypt,Tunisia,Libya,Algeria,Morocco,Mauritania, |
| News date | 10/02/2012 |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH |
