FIRST MEDA WATER PARTNERS CONFERENCE
15-16 April 2007 - Amman, Jordan
Objectives
Topics
Organisation Committee
Conference contacts
Conference Venue and Hotel
List of participants
Presentations
Photogallery
Objectives
The First MEDA Water Partners Conference (FMWPC) to be held on 15
and 16 April 2007 in Amman (Jordan) is organised by the RMSU in
the framework of the MEDA Water Programme “Euro-Mediterranean
Regional Programme for Local Water Management” and in coherence
with the Declaration of the Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial
Conference on Local Water Management in Turin (1999).
The Conference first objective is to highlight the importance of
the first phase of MEDA Water Programme and, at the same time, to
make clear that this first MEDA Water phase allowed to identify
important issues, to develop social and institutional approaches
and relevant guidances for the MEDA countries and to disseminate
these.
The MEDA Water projects will have a chance to present their
objectives and achieved results, highlighting the effectiveness
and relevance of all implemented actions. Considering the achieved
results and lessons learnt, the projects will suggest strategies,
ways and means to progressively expand the coverage of promising
achievements to ensure optimal water availability to the
population and to increase the sustainability of water management
at local level.
Furthermore, MEDA countries that were involved in the MEDA Water
projects and others that were not, will have the opportunity to
become fully informed about the MEDA Water Programme and to
benefit from results of the projects. The FMWPC will also provide
them with the opportunity to present their countries’ main issues
in water management. Following this, the main objective of the
Conference is to have a large discussion between the relevant
government partners in the different countries, the MEDA Water
projects and concerned functionaries of the EC and
international/regional organisations, on the virtues of the MEDA
Water Programme and the required follow-up of the relevant
activities.
The FMWPC shall be attended by all partners involved in the MEDA
Water Programme: representatives of all MEDA Water Projects,
representatives of Provincial/National/Regional Stakeholders, of
Water Authorities from MEDA countries, EC representatives and
representatives of relevant international/regional organisations.
Topics
The topics that will be discussed in separate working groups and
presented to the plenum are:
- Institutional issues:
- Development of new tools and models of management at the
local level
- Development of participative management scenarios at the
local level
- Strengthening the capacity of professionals at the local
level
- Coherence of political strategies on water management and
coordination at different levels
- Awareness, information and training
- Social and economic issues:
- Population/water users involvement and participation
- Costs of developed methodologies and benefits for the
population
- Receptivity to new technologies and adapted implementation
to economic and social context
- Review of technical/technological concepts adapted
to local water management in MEDA countries:
- Usual local water management
- Recent modern schemes of local water management
- New concepts of local water management
- Orientations for development of integrated local water
management
Organisation Committee
- Hachmi Kennou - Chair of the OC -RMSU
- Kari Homanen - RMSU
- René Kersauze - RMSU
- Martin Regelsberger - MEDA Water Projects Coordinator
Representative
- Ismail Al-Baz - MEDA Water Projects Representative
Conference contacts
- Regional Monitoring and Support Unit (RMSU)
Regional Project Office in Amman
Wadi Saqra Building, 6th Floor, Office 3
Wadi Saqra Street
P.O. Box 941545
11194 Amman, Jordan
Tel/Fax: +962 (0)6 554 41 46
Email:
rmsu.amman@medawater-rmsu.org
Contact: Gert Soer (Team Leader) / Qasem Al-Horainy (Project
Assistant)
- Regional Monitoring and Support Unit (RMSU)
Regional Project Sub-Office in Marseille
C/o Institut Méditerranéen de l’Eau (IME)
Les Docks – Atrium 10.3 – 6th Floor
10, Place de la Joliette
13002 Marseille, France
Tel: +33 (0)4 91 59 87 77
Fax: +33 (0)4 91 59 87 78
Email:
rmsu.marseille@medawater-rmsu.org
Contact: Hachmi Kennou (MEDA Water Authorities Facilitator) /
Ida Nguyen (Event and Logistic Officer)
Conference Venue and
Hotel
- JORDAN VALLEY MARRIOTT RESORT & SPA
Dead Sea Road - Sweimeh
P.O. Box 928417
11190 Amman, Jordan
Tel: +962 (0)5 356 04 00
Fax: +962 (0)5 356 04 44
Email:
ebc@marriotthotels.com
Website:
www.marriott-middleeast.com
Contact: Sireen Awwad (Account Service Manager)
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