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What does ISIIMM want to achieve?
The aim of the project is to share experiences and
knowledge and to build new perspectives for sustainable
water management in Mediterranean agriculture. It helps
rural communities to adapt to problems resulting from
water resources pressures through institutional changes.
The project is active in Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco.
How does the project work?
ISIIMM works on eleven specific case studies inside the
river basins of six Mediterranean countries. The project
develops its main activities with full participation of
the target groups. It involves local partners, water
users, development agents, researchers, NGOs, public
services and administrations, in the development of water
management strategies and action plans. It also discusses
institutional arrangements for the sustainable management
of water resources with them. This leads to new
water-sharing behaviours and institutional innovations.
A wide range of training workshops and seminars are being
executed. These allow the target groups to gain a better
understanding of the problems in Mediterranean irrigation
management and enable them to solve these in a more
suitable way.
In Mostafa Agha, a village in Egypt where solid waste has
a heavy impact on water and sanitation, ISIIMM also
implements a micro-project to introduce community based
solid waste management.
All this together forms the basis for a learning process
that covers the whole range of issues of collective water
management. ISIIMM makes considerable efforts to
dissemination of its results through books, films,
newsletters, guides and other media.
Added value of ISIIMM
ISIIMM is extending knowledge on the social and
institutional aspects of irrigation management in the
Mediterranean. It creates adapted institutional tools and
new perspectives for irrigation development policies and
innovation at the local level. This is done through the
development of guidelines and documentation of the eleven
ISIIMM case study river basins. It contributes to mutual
learning and knowledge transfer at local, national and
regional scales.
The project partners
The project consortium comprises twelve institutes from
the MEDA countries Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco and the EU
countries France, Italy and Spain.
Agropolis from France
is the leading organisation of the consortium and performs
all administrative and coordination tasks. |
