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Decentralized Wastewater Treatment

and Reuse in Institutions: Mafraq Pilot in 3 Schools

September. 1, 2019 – September. 30, 2019 RFP#: WASH/JOR/PCA2018178/PD2018188/2018/MIRRA/Mafraq

Tenth Progress Report

September 1st 2019– September 30th 2019

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PROJECT FACT SHEET

PROJECT TITLE: Decentralized wastewater treatment and reuse in institutions

FUNDING AGENCY:

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

START DATE: December 1st, 2018

END DATE: September 30th, 2019

IMPLEMENTING PARTNER IN JORDAN:

Methods for Irrigation and Agriculture (MIRRA) - a

Jordanian non-governmental organization that

specializes in the development of water and agricultural

sectors including optimizing pressurized irrigation

networks at the field and network levels, wastewater

reuse in agriculture and capacity-building activities for

individuals and institutions.

http://mirra-jo.org

CONTACT INFORMATION:

MIRRA Email info@mirra-jo.org

MIRRA Mail P.O. Box 941454 Amman 11194 Jordan

Name of Organization Head Dr. Samer Talozi

Title of Head Chairman

Email of Head samer.talozi@mirra-jo.org

Phone of Head +962-795204154

Name of Progr. Focal Point Eng. Alham Al-Shurafat

Title Project Officer/ Water and Environment

Email elham-al-shurofat@mirra-jo.org

Telephone +962-799372915

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Contents

1. GENERAL PROJECT INFORMATION 4

2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5

3. PROJECT PROGRESS 6

4. INDICATORS 13

5. ACTIVITIES 17

5.1 DESCRIPTION OF ONGOING ACTIVITIES DURING THE PERIOD OR COMPLETED

ACTIVITIES 17

5.2 DESCRIPTION OF UPCOMING ACTIVITIES FOR THE NEXT PERIOD 19

6. SUCCESS STORIES 20

7. CHALLENGES, LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES RELATED TO THE

PROJECT 20

8. CUMULATIVE BUDGET UTILIZED FOR THE PERIOD 21

9. THE COMEING MONITORING PLAN 25

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Progress Report: Decentralized wastewater treatment and reuse in institutions

Management Team

Project Director MIRRA

Dr. Samer Talozi ● Overall supervision

Project Manager/ Focal Point/Water and Environment Engineer MIRRA

Alham Al-Shurafat ● Supervise the project implementation

● Financial affairs

● Logistics/Focal point

● Stakeholder analysis and follow up

● Managing the training programs/trainer

● The project monitoring

Senior Water and Irrigation Engineer MIRRA

Maram Zaid ● Designing and installing irrigation systems.

● Managing all the agronomy aspects (e.g trees selection).

● Field data collection and analysis.

● Trainer

Field Engineers Abdullah Zyoud, Tasnim Harahshe

● Field Supervision

● Local stakeholders’ outreach in Mafraq

● Advocacy missions in favor of the project

1. GENERAL PROJECT INFORMATION

Implementing agency: Methods for Irrigation and Agriculture (MIRRA)

Reporting Period: 1 Sep 2019 - 30 Sep 2019

Agreement Number: WASH/JOR/PCA2018178/PD2018188/2018/MIRRA/Mafraq

Project Duration: 10 months

Country/Region: Jordan Submitted by: Alham Al-Shurafat

Funding (Total): 201443.2 JOD Date of submission: 7 NOV 2019

Contact Information: Project Manager: Alham Al Shurafat, elham-al-shurofat@mirra-jo.org,00962-799372915

1a. Brief description of the project:

This project is a collaboration between MIRRA and UNICEF that works within the framework of decentralizing most of the services in Jordan. This project focuses on sanitation and wastewater management by targeting three schools in Irhab district within Mafraq Governorate. Irhab district has a population of 23,874 residents, of which 2,970 are Syrians. The district is an agricultural area with no sewer network coverage relying on cesspit for disposal of wastewater, water needs for agriculture are usually met through the piped water network that is supplied for domestic use. Alternatively, water trucking for agricultural purposes from privately owned boreholes is also practiced. The collaboration aims to pilot a sustainable integrated innovative approach to wastewater treatment at a decentralized level within institutions but also communities to achieve the following objectives: • Safe management of wastewater at a decentralized level to prevent groundwater pollution and to reuse water for agricultural purposes. • Greywater reuse to reduce the volume of fresh water consumption • Solar power as an alternative sustainable energy source for the operation of the WWT system including the operation of the irrigation network. • Increase awareness and acquisition of best practices among students and teachers on the importance of water conservation, environmental impacts of poor management of sanitation, and renewable energy as a sustainable source to provide energy.

1b. Collaboration and partnerships:

● Collaboration with schools’ heads and local education directorate to manage the project closely with memorandum of understanding to sustain the project beyond the project due date.

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2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

● Installations: - Fully installing and operating two decentralized wastewater treatment plants using the

technology modified septic tank. The plants treat the wastewater from the three schools as well as adjacent Mosque.

- Fully upgrading and operating an existing gray water management system at Rihab Girls Secondary school. The system treats the graywater from outdoor drinking faucets using trickling filter technology and reuse the treated water to flush the nearby students’ toilets.

- Fully installing and operating a newly locally modified graywater management system by

Wakileh at Rihab Elementary School for Boys. The system treats the graywater from

outdoor drinking faucets and reuse the treated water to flush the nearby students’ toilets.

- Installing monitoring systems to monitor the wastewater treatment plants and grey water

systems.

- Fully installing and operating two automatic ultra-low energy drip irrigation systems at the three schools to use the treated wastewater for restricted irrigation with high efficiency almost 90%.

- Fully installing an automatic ultra-low energy drip irrigation system at the Rihab Secondary School for Girls to use the fresh water for unrestricted irrigation with high efficiency almost 90%.

- Installing a small water lab at Rihab Secondary School for Girls in order to allow the school agriculture department staff to measure the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) continuously.

- Installing a polycarbonate “glass” greenhouse at Rihab Secondary School for Girls to allow the school agriculture department staff to have a controlled planting environment. The glass greenhouse allows to grow the mother plants for the school and local community nurseries needs.

- An interactive board was created and installed at Secondary School for Girls in order to explain the sustainable schemes to manage the environmental resources at Rihab Secondary School for Girls.

- Renovate all the sanitation units and main drinking facilities with reference to the National Standards for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools in Jordan.

- A booklet for the student from all ages was created and printed on best WASH behaviors and practices. The booklet is used by MIRRA team and teachers to educate the students.

- An immediate quality assessment of the treated water after the operation have been done by Wakileh.

- A monitoring plan have been finalized for 10 Months (Nov 2019 – Aug 2020). A Master student called Hakam Manduri adopted the monitoring plan as his Master Thesis scheme. So, Hakam will be MIRRA’s monitoring officer (Field and Office).

- Site survey include the three schools have been done. This provided Detailed AutoCAD drawings of the site.

● Building capacity, hygiene promotion and awareness: - A booklet for the student from all ages was created and printed on best WASH behaviors

and practices. The booklet is used by MIRRA team and teachers to educate the students. - A first draft of a booklet for general audience explain the whole project schemes and the

operation, maintained and the sustainability of the project. - MIRRA performed a day long intensive training day on the project operation and maintained

for the staff in the schools, Mafraq Education Directorate, Rihab Municipality and Local citizen council

- Conducing Face to Face personal training for the personal responsible for operation inside the schools by MIRRA staff and the companies responsible for the installations).

● Approvals: - MIRRA obtained the approval from the Ministry of Education to install and operate solar

power systems for the three schools.

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● Other general works: - Installing signs all over the schools explain the installations and indicate the main cautions

and notes. - Drafting initial sustainability plans closely with the schools, Mafraq Education Directorate,

Rihab Municipality and Local citizen council.

- Fencing around all the units that may lead to risk or may get sabotaged.

- Cleaning the school’s premises comprehensively (Removing large stones, Land leveling, Trees Trimming, removing constructing residues etc.)

- Opening suitable holes in the wall in order to facilitate the work of desludging tanks from the treatment plants.

- Updating MIRRA Code of Conduct to confirm to PSEA six principles to prevent children sextual exploitation and abuse.

- More than 250 trees have been planted successfully inside the schools.

3. PROJECT PROGRESS Output 1: Children have access to safe and sustainable services.

MIRRA did high quality of implementation of the WASH services infrastructure inside the three schools include consideration of environmental impacts, water quality, high quality procurement process (when relevant), appropriate building materials and procedures. Meaningful users’ participation has been including users in all stages of the project implementation including setting the performance standard of the service, the management and monitoring of the service. The enhancement to the WASH services included: - Fully installing and operating two decentralized wastewater treatment plants using the technology modified septic tank. The plants treat the wastewater from the three schools as well as adjacent mosque. Each plant can treat up to 3 cubic meters per day with a BOD concentration less than 30 mg/l. The treated wastewater is used for restricted irrigation in around 4000-meter square of cultivated land with various types of trees.

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The Modified Septic Tank (MST) is a simple biological sewage treatment plant that consists of a dual Anaerobic/Aerobic biological reactor that is gravity driven and powered by a small air pump only. The MST main features are Robust and compact design, odorless and colorless treated water, free of charge irrigation water, low Investment Cost, minimum power consumption, low sludge producing and suitable for seasonal operation.

- Fully upgrading and operating an existing gray water management system at Rihab Girls Secondary school. The system treats the graywater from outdoor drinking faucets using trickling filter technology and reuse the treated water to flush the nearby students’ toilets. It is expected that this system will conserve more than 500 liter of fresh water per day. - Fully installing and operating a newly locally modified graywater treatment system by Wakileh at Rihab Elementary School for Boys. The system treats the graywater from outdoor drinking faucets and reuse the treated water to flush the nearby students’ toilets. It is expected that this system will conserve more than 500 liter of fresh water per day.

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The Grey Water Treatment is based on the Trickling Filter Technology which is built inside an insulated (3 layer) PE tank, the Trickling Filter Media is a Plastic Media. Treated Grey water is pumped and collected inside a PE Storage tank having the capacity of 1800 lit. this PE Storage tank is piped and connected to the Toilet Flushing units. The treated water is Filtered and Disinfected (using Chlorination) before it is stored in the treated water storage tank. A make-up water system shall be considered; in the case when treated Grey Water is not enough for toilet flushing. The make-up water system comprises a fresh water storage tank and pump complete with necessary automation, to ensure availability of water as needed for the toilet flushing. The fresh water tank is connected to the existing fresh water supply line and is provided with a float to make sure that the fresh water tank is always full. An Automatic Control Panel with PLC control shall be provided. The Control Panel shall be locked and installed inside the Toilet Building. The Control Panel shall automatically operate and control all the Electromechanical equipment & Instruments. - Fully installing and operating two automatic ultra-low energy drip irrigation systems at the three schools to use the treated wastewater for restricted irrigation. The irrigation has high efficiency around 90% compared to the previous traditional drip irrigation system of 60% efficiency. - Fully installing an automatic ultra-low energy drip irrigation system at the Rihab Secondary School for Girls to use the fresh water for unrestricted irrigation. The irrigation has high efficiency around 90% compared to the previous traditional drip irrigation system of 60% efficiency.

- Renovating all the drinking and sanitation units in the three school up to the National Standards for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools in Jordan.

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All the installed WASH services will be operated with solar energy reducing the schools carbon footprint down to zero. To ensure safety, all installation openings are well covered, and all the systems are either well fenced or/and signed clearly. The head teachers have been trained how to use the installed WASH services safely and directed to transfer these guidelines to their staff and students.

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- An immediate quality assessment of the treated water after the operation have been done by Wakileh. In the table summary of the water quality results (can find in Annex 1 the full water quality report on 5 Nov 2019)

Treated Grey Water - Rihab Secondary School for Girls

Treated Grey Water - Rihab Elementary School for Boys

Treated Wastewater - Rihab Elementary School for Boys & Rihab Secondary School for Girls

Before Treatment: TSS =10, COD= 33 and Turbidity= 4.47 NTU. After Treatment: TSS < 10 mg/l, COD <10 mg/l and Turbidity =0 NTU.

Before Treatment: TSS =40, COD= 120 and Turbidity= 22 NTU. After Treatment: TSS = 20 mg/l, TSS= 20 mg/l and Turbidity =0.

Before Treatment: TSS = 173 mg/l, COD =1010 mg/l. After Treatment:

1) Boys School: TSS = 10 mg/l, COD =32 mg/l and Turbidity =0 NTU.

2) Girls School: TSS = 10 mg/l, COD =28 mg/l and Turbidity =0 NTU.

- Installing a glass greenhouse at Rihab Secondary School for Girls to allow the school agriculture

department staff to have a controlled planting environment. The glass greenhouse allows to grow the mother plants for the school and local community nurseries needs

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- Site survey include the three schools have been done. This provided Detailed AutoCAD drawings of the site. The drawings will be used to establish guiding drawings for the schools.

Output 2: Students have knowledge on water conservation and good environmental practices

- An interactive board was created and installed at Secondary School for Girls in order to explain

the sustainable schemes to manage the environmental resources at Rihab Secondary School for Girls.

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- A first draft student’s booklet has been designed on WASH best practices and behaviors at home and school. Several education sessions and activities have been with the students. Still coming some sessions to let the students adopt best WASH practices and behaviors to use the installed and renovated WASH services inside the schools (The draft in Annex 2).

- More than 250 trees have been planted successfully inside the schools by the teachers and the students.

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Output 3: Capacity of school and ministerial staffs and community members for automatic irrigation, DWWM management, wastewater treatment and grey water is improved.

- A first draft of a booklet for general audience explain the whole project schemes and the operation, maintained and the sustainability of the project. - The directly responsible staff has been trained personally on the exact detailed use of the installed systems by the contractors and MIRRA team. - Drafting initial sustainability plans closely with the schools, Mafraq Education Directorate, Rihab Municipality and Local citizen council. - Conducing Face to Face personal training for the personal responsible for operation inside the schools by MIRRA staff and the companies responsible for the installations). - MIRRA performed a day long intensive training on the project operation and maintaince for the staff in the schools, Mafraq Education Directorate, Rihab Municipality and Local citizen council.

4. INDICATORS

Result statement Performance indicator/s Baseline Target Results/Cumulative Data and estimations

UNICEF Programme Output #5.2: Vulnerable girls and boys have access to, and use, adequate, safe, affordable and sustainable water and sanitation services

# of target girls and boys with access to appropriate sanitation facilities and services as a result of UNICEF direct support # of pilot alternative water and wastewater projects undertaken

67,220 0

248,360 1

191,094 2

Number of children to have access to, and use,

0 710 710

1 The population of Rihab district is 23,874 based on the Jordanian Department of Statistics

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PCA Output 1: Children have access to safe and sustainable services in 3.

sustainable sanitation services.

Number of teachers; women and men to have access to, and use, sustainable sanitation services.

0 103 103

Number of solar powered decentralized wastewater treatment systems installed

0 2 0

Number of grey water reuse systems installed

0 2 2

Quantity of cubic meters of water saved 0

2000 cubic meters/year

997.5 m3 (780 2 m3 for irrigation + 217.53 m3 for toilet flushing)

Quantity of cubic meters of wastewater treated and reused for restricted agricultural purposes

0 1825 cubic meters/year

780 m3 for irrigation 4

Savings of energy costs in the three schools.

0 10000 JD/Year

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Number of wash basins and bathrooms with greywater treatment systems installed

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21 wash basins 24 bathrooms

15 Wash Basins 20 Drinking faucets 33 Bathroom

UNICEF Programme Output #5.3: Vulnerable girls and boys have access to, and use, adequate, safe, affordable and sustainable water and sanitation services

% of target vulnerable children who demonstrate an awareness of key hygiene messages and water conservation

TBC +10%

PCA Output 2: Students have knowledge on water conservation and good environmental practices

Proportion of students (boys and girls) who have demonstrated knowledge on water conservation and good environmental practices.

0 100% 46%5

No. of Indoor interactive boards to demonstrate systems operation schemes to students and visitors

0 3 46

2 In all schools, 4 meters cubic per day of treated water is produced and the number of study days equals 195 days according to the

Ministry of Education, by multiplying the amount of treated water 4 cubic meters per day by the number of study days 195 days, the schools will have more than 780 cubic meters of water saved 3 In all schools, 0.5 meter cubic per day water were saved from the toilet flushing, number of study days in the boys school equals

195 days and the number of study days in girl school is 240 days due to the summer school 45 days according to the Ministry of Education, by multiplying the amount of saved water from the toilet flushing 0.5 cubic meters per day by the total number of study days 435 days, the schools will have 217.5 cubic meters of water saved 4 In all schools, 4 meters cubic per day of treated water is produced and the number of study days equals 195 days according to the

Ministry of Education, by multiplying the amount of treated water 4 cubic meters per day by the number of study days 195 days, the schools will have more than 780 cubic meters of water saved 5 The total number of students is equal to 710 students, 329 girls’ students were trained, equal to 46% of total students 6 Four interactive boards were built, three were built by students and one was built by a professional company

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PCA Output 3: Capacity of school and ministerial staff and community members for automatic irrigation, DWWM management, wastewater treatment and grey water is improved.

Number of tests in the school laboratory on water quality within the curriculum of science and/or the vocational training courses

0 12 17

A manual for a training activity on sustainable automatic irrigation for the girls’ vocational education.

0 1 1

Number of staffs at the ministry of education, schools and municipality staff trained on DWWM management, operation and maintenance.

0 30 30

Number of people from local community reached out on DWWM approaches, benefits and sustainable aspects.

0 100 100

Number of students (Boys and Girls) receiving training on wastewater treatment and grey water reuse.

0 336 3298

Number of students receiving hygiene promotion training.

0 336 3299

Percentage of students with increased hygiene awareness.

0 70% 46%10

The work has been evaluated and investigated closely on field by UNCIF twice. First, on 25/09/2019: MIRRA, UNICEF and Wakileh Contracting teams have a programmatic visit to the project. During the visit, and as the project approach its end, the work progress was inspected in the three schools and Consultations and feedback with the school’s mangers, teachers and local community have been performed. Also, the sustainability plans were reviewed by relevant stakeholders.

7 A sustainable water testing laboratory has been built to measure the BOD, It can be operated by the teacher and students and does

not need a high maintenance cost which is sufficient to ensure the quality of water according to Jordanian standards 8 We target to train all the students but for now we just trained the girls students

9 We target to train all the students but for now we just trained the girls students

10 The number of students trained that increased awareness of water use and personal hygiene was 46%

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On Tuesday 07/10/2019: MIRRA, UNICEF and Wakileh Contracting teams have a milestone programmatic visit to the project "Decentralized wastewater treatment and reuse in institutions” at three governmental schools in Rihab village, Al-Mafraq. The project is funded by UNICEF and implemented by MIRRA. The visit has special guests of UNICEF included the UNICEF WASH associate director from UNICEF Headquarters in New York Ms. Kelly Naylor and Middle East UNICEF office representative. The UNICEF team expressed gratitude for the impressive work progress and the teams together discussed a project extension in order to cover further various components of research and development in the schools to become more sustainable, save more water, benefit the local community and having the three schools as role model at best practices for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) management as a public institution.

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5. ACTIVITIES

5.1 DESCRIPTION OF ONGOING ACTIVITIES DURING THE PERIOD OR COMPLETED

ACTIVITIES

Name of activity Ongoing / completed

Short Description

Under Output 1: Children have access to safe and sustainable services

Solar power approvals, installing an operating

Ongoing We are still in the process of getting approval from Irbid Electricity Company. The solar company cannot apply for the Electricity Company without the Ministry of Education paying all school fees. In the meantime, MIRRA has followed up with the Ministry of Education to issue a cheque for the value of the fees. Upon issuance of the cheque, the Solar Power Company will submit the request to Irbid Electricity Company.

Installing and operating two decentralized wastewater treatment plants

Completed Definition of Wastewater: All wastewater collected from toilets, floor drains and kitchens. Description: Wastewater treatment plant based on MODIFIED SEPTIC TANK - MST technology, which is a relatively simple biological technology for the treatment of domestic wastewater. It consists of a double aerobic / anaerobic bioreactor consisting of several compartments and the water moves between by gravity. The air reactor is supplied with oxygen for aerobic biological

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treatment using a small air blower. Compartments and equipment shall be in prefabricated circular ground concrete tanks buried underground. Capacity per plant: 3 cubic meters per day Specification for Treated Water: Conform to or Better than Class A of Jordanian Standard No. 893 - 2006. Operation, maintenance and monitoring: The station is fully automatic and does not require an operator, but the station administrator or other representative, such as the worker or guard, should monitor the performance of the station by following the operating instructions available in Arabic, which is very simple instructions and do not need a specialized technician. Estimated freshwater conservation / replacement and treated water: 2 cubic meters per day

Installing and operating two systems for grey water treatment and reuse for toilet flushing

Completed Definition of greywater: All sewage collected from water fountains, wash basins, showers and washing machines. Treatment Unit Description: Gray water is discharged from sinks by gravity and is collected inside a 500 liter partially installed underground tank covered with a tight lid to prevent dirt and other entry into the tank. The tank is equipped with a pump that raises / transports the collected water to the gray water treatment unit. Collecting treated water into a 1800-liter tank that is piped toilets for flushing. There is a reserve makeup fresh water tank to ensure the availability of water to rinse the toilets in the absence of sufficient treated water. Operation, maintenance and monitoring: The station is fully automatic and does not require an operator, but the station administrator or his representative, such as the worker or guard, should monitor the performance of the station by following the operating instructions available in Arabic, which is very simple instructions and do not need a specialized technician. Amount of fresh water conservation / substitution with treated water: 500 liters per day

Renovate all the sanitation units and main drinking facilities

Completed Around 15 Wash Basins, 20 Drinking faucets,33 Bathroom and surrounding have renovated using high quality materials up to the National Standards for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools in Jordan

Installing two automatic ultra-low energy drip irrigation system to irrigate treated water

Completed Two automatic irrigation systems are installed, which is electronically controlled by a control panel. One of the features of the automatic irrigation system is that it can be scheduled for irrigation and application, which saves time and effort. The irrigation network includes a pump, a strainer filter, a simple fertilizer, pressure meters, a water meter and electric valves. The irrigation water source is treated water from decentralized wastewater treatment plants at Rehab Secondary School for Girls, Rehab Elementary School for Boys and Abdullah Bin Al-Zubair School. Plantings: fruit trees, ornamental trees and forest trees Irrigation system efficiency: up to 90% while the previous traditional drip irrigation system was with 60% efficiency.

Fencing and signing with Arabic around the project sites

Completed A fence with doors and locks have installed to protect all the installed units and equipment’s.

Establishing the infrastructure of a glass greenhouse

Completed MIRRA Installed a glass greenhouse at Rihab Secondary School for Girls to allow the school agriculture department staff to have a controlled planting environment. The glass greenhouse allows to grow the mother plants for the school and local community nurseries needs.

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Under Output 2: Students have knowledge on water conservation and good environmental practices

WASH best practices and behaviors booklet

Completed MIRRA staff together with the local staff formulated a booklet named “Water is our wealth” address the school students. The booklet is very simple and lively to engage the students and let them know more about water conservation in the home and school, Hygiene promotion and sustainable irrigation and agriculture.

Under Output 3: Capacity of school and ministerial staff and community members for automatic irrigation, DWWM management, wastewater treatment and grey water is improved.

Sustainable operation and maintenance booklet drafting and designing

Ongoing MIRRA staff together with the contractors and local staff formulated a booklet named “Decentralization of treatment for wastewater reuse in institutions: 3 model government schools in the village of Rehab in Mafraq Governorate Guide” The booklet first part gives a brief about the environmental challenges in the targeted area, the sustainability concept, climate change, water scarcity and the applied integrated sustainable solutions. The booklet second part gives the guideline of operation, maintenance and sustainable management of the applied integrated sustainable solutions in the schools

Intensive training day for direct staff on operation and maintenance

Completed MIRRA built the capacities of more than 30 personal from Rihab village schools, Mafraq education directorate, Rihab Municipality and local councils on the operation and maintenance of the installed components in three schools in Rihab for sustainable water and agriculture management. The training included the operation and maintenance of the low-energy automated drip irrigation systems using both fresh and treated water, Solar power system to provide the whole electricity need, decentralized wastewater treatment plants using modified septic tank technology and grey water treatment and reuse for toilet flushing.

5.2 DESCRIPTION OF UPCOMING ACTIVITIES FOR THE NEXT PERIOD

Name of activity Expected dates

Short Description

Under Output 1: Children have access to safe and sustainable services

Renovation works of the school’s premises, WASH services and pathways to be accessible for disabled children

Oct 2019 - Mar 2020

A wide spectrum of renovation works is planned to convert the schools into an advanced site that is safe, comfortable and accessible by every student/people group. Also, this will establish the surroundings very comfortable and nice to receive visitors. This is needed because this project site should be a role model demonstration in Jordan regarding integrated sustainable management of environmental resources, meaningful users’ participation and social cohesion.

Monitoring program Nov 2019 – Aug 2020

A monitoring program will be designed and implemented for at least 8 months to measure the success of the project's objectives. Several parameters will be monitored on the quality of treated water, quantity of water saved, irrigation efficiency, maintenance and operation need and awareness of students and the surrounding Jordanian communities in general.

Under Output 2: Students have knowledge on water conservation and good environmental practices

Behavior Change program

Oct 2019 – Dec 2019 Feb 2020 – Mar 2020

A training program will be implemented to change the WASH negative behaviors of students and train teachers to guide students and design materials and signs on best practices and behaviors necessary for the sustainability of these behaviors for the current and future students. This will be implemented through the use of activity classes every week to train students through practical application, outside events and discussion sessions.

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6. SUCCESS STORIES

● A complex of three public schools, adjacent Mosque and adjacent park in a rural village in Jordan adapts an integrated sustainable scheme to manage their environment resources successfully. Here is the graphic showing the sustainability components in Rihab Secondary School for Girls.

7. CHALLENGES, LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES RELATED TO THE

PROJECT

a) Identify the specific challenges related to any of the activities in overall implementation:

- Weather conditions, it was very difficult to work in winter. - Schools start, which led to delay some activities to prevent students from the inconvenience and confusion - Poor infrastructure for schools that need to be maintained so that we can install and operate the new system

sustainably and efficiently - Delayed approval from the Ministry of Education, which led to the difficulty of communication and training of students

for more than 8 months without the approval - The teachers' strike has delayed the training of students due to the difficulty of communicating with them for nearly a

month - Rihab is an archaeological area there was a fear when excavation works begin that it is possible to find some and

buried archaeological sites such as water canals.

b) If relevant, identify lessons learned and/or recommendations for future action:

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- It is essential to follow up the top-down approach with public schools which entails having the Ministry of Education as facilitator and observer from the very beginning to avoid any concern at the schools, education directorates and hosting communities.

- Make public institutions and schools compete in terms of their desire to implement their development projects. This increases the opportunities for effective collaboration and support during project implementation, project sustainability and enhanced ownership.

c) Identify unexpected results (positive or negative) if any:

- Society's negative view of reuse of treated water for irrigation and other uses - Elementary students background lack knowledge of public hygiene and water use

d) If relevant, what activity needed to be changed? What results or indicators needed to be modified?

- Increase the number of communities to train and raise awareness of the use of treated water

e) Describe any delays or milestone deviations in the implementation calendar:

- Delay in the building capacity programs due to the delay in getting the Jordanian Ministries’ approval and the first money advance.

8. CUMULATIVE BUDGET UTILIZED FOR THE PERIOD

Result Level

Result/activity

Timeframe (quarters/year(s)

Total (MIRRA+UNICEF) JD

MIRRA contribution JD

UNICEF contribution

Actual Expenditures of UNICEF contribution

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cash11 Supply

Progr. Output 1:

PCA Output 1: Solar powered decentralized wastewater treatment and greywater12 reuse systems installed in 3 schools.

157,620.00 13,750.00 143,870.00 0

Act.1.1 "Scoping workshop in Amman addresses the whole Programme Document (PD) at MIRRA/ Union of Environmental Associations. "

x 320.00 0.00 320.00 312.052

Act. 1.2

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) study of "Category B: preliminary EIA” in case requested by the Ministry of Environment.

x x 4,025.00 0.00 4,025.00 3950

Act. 1.3

Designing, constructing and testing two

x x x 63,550.00 1,350.00 62,200.00 71325.3

11 The budget is prepared in the currency of implementation. Most generally, this corresponds to the local currency in

the country.

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separate decentralized Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs).

Act. 1.4

Water quality testing and monitoring for the inflow and outflow from the WWTPs as well as other two Greywater treatment units (i.e. six sampling events)

x x x 14,125.00 12,400.00 1,725.00 956

Act. 1.5

Installing two automatic drip irrigation systems each to serve an area around 3000 meters inside the schools. One system for the girl’s school and the other for the two adjacent boys schools.

x x x 23,600.00 0.00 23,600.00 24498.39

Act. 1.6

Reorganization of agriculture (~ 3000 meters) and cultivation of empty spaces (~ 3000 meters) inside the 3 schools.

x x x 975.00 0.00 975.00 1026

Act 1.7 Other expenses and/or Contingency (to be agreed with UNICEF in advance)

x x x x 1,125.00 0.00 1,125.00 1401.6

Act 1.8 Designing, constructing and testing two grey water systems. One at the girls school.

x x x x 12,300.00 0.00 12,300.00 13200

Act 1.9 Designing, constructing and testing the PV-solar power systems (Installing solar power systems (~ 50 kW) for the complex of the 3 schools)

x x x x 37,600.00 0.00 37,600.00 21496.3

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Progr. Output 2:

PCA Output 2: Improved practices of key WASH behaviours at home and school through mobilization activities at school and surrounding communities

13,902.00 2,040.00 11,862.00 0

Act 2.1 Manual for a practical training activity on the automatic irrigation for the girls’ vocational education.

x x x 2,000.00 1,500.00 500.00 500

Act. 2.2

Lab section for water quality testing in the Science Lab at Irhab Secondary School for Girls.

x x x 3,800.00 0.00 3,800.00 3600

Act 2.3 installing 3 interactive boards demonstrations on the water reuse schemes for each of the 3 schools

x x x 2,800.00 0.00 2,800.00 2099.582

Act 2.4 design and print informative pamphlet of the Project

x x 500.00 0.00 500.00 500

Act 2.5 Training on the whole PD scheme management, operation and maintenance.

x x 1,650.00 0.00 1,650.00 1650

Act 2.6 Design and print manuals on the system management, operation and maintenance.

x x 720.00 540.00 180.00

180

Act 2.7 Closing workshop and ceremony.

x x 2,432.00 0.00 2,432.00 1995

Act 2.8 Hygiene promotion x x 14,004.00 7,002.00 7,002.00 7007.38

Sub-total for the outputs 178,526.00 22,792.00 155,734.00 0

Progr. Output 3

Effective and efficient programme management 24,998.00 9,378.50 15,619.50 0

Act 3.1 Standard activity: In-country management & support staff13 pro-rated to their

x x x X 16,380.00 6,066.00 10,314.00 10314

13 Costs of technical assistance/staff directly related to the achievement of planned results are budgeted as part of

programme output budgeting.

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contribution to the programme (representation, planning, coordination, logistics, admin, finance)

Act 3.2 Standard activity: Operational costs pro-rated to their contribution to the programme (office space, equipment, office supplies, maintenance)

X x x x 6,125.00 3,312.50 2,812.50 2812.5

Act 3.3 Standard activity: Planning, monitoring, evaluation and communication14, pro-rated to their contribution to the programme (venue, travels…)

x x x x 2,493.00 0.00 2,493.00 2529.38

Sub-total for effective and efficient programme implementation costs

24,998.00 9,378.50 15,619.50 0

Extension

Fully Automated Ultra Low Energy Drip Irrigation in Rihab Schools and adjacent Public Park

X 5833.7 0 5833.7 5833.7

Renovation Works for the Toilets

X 24256 0 24256 24256

HQ costs15

HQ technical support16 (7% of the cash component)

0.00 0.00 0.00 0

Total programme document budget (JD) 233613.7 32,170.50 201443.2 201443.2

Total programme document budget (US$) 329500.44 45374.88 284125.56 284125.56

14 Costs of M&E and communication activities directly related to the achievement of the planned results re budgeted

as part of the programme output budgeting. 15 Only payable to organizations with headquarters outside of the country of implementation. 16 Amount is an estimate. Amount paid is a standard 7% on actual expenditures subject to calculation exclusions as

per Annex H of the CSO Procedure.

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9. THE COMEING MONITORING PLAN

Monitoring Plan (10 Months, Nov 2019- Aug 2020) The location: Rihab Schools, Rihab, Al-Mafraq, Jordan

The Project: Decentralized wastewater treatment and reuse in institutions The Project ID: RFP#: WASH/JOR/PCA2018178/PD2018188/2018/MIRRA/Mafraq

Monitoring Staff/Institutes

A. MIRRA Monitoring Officer Name: Hakam Al-Manduri The Monitoring purpose: 1. The monitoring will be used by Hakam for his master thesis 2. The monitoring will be used by MIRRA to Report for UNICEF on the project operation and sustainability. Bio: Hakam Mandouri achieved his B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering in 2016 and currently studying a master's degree in IWRM MENA (integrated water resources management with a focus on MENA region) at technical university of Cologne in Germany including one exchange semester at GJU (German Jordanian University). Hakam has worked as a structural inspector for a consultancy firm (Aurecon Engineering international) in Dubai, including the entire elements of infrastructure from scratch. In addition to his managerial experience, Hakam gained short water-related experience by attending two internships in Qatar; the first one is about water quality control with one of the world's leading inspection and testing companies (SGS), while the second one is about construction of water Mega reservoirs with Consolidated contractors company (CCC). From October 2018 onwards, Hakam is carrying out intensive scientific research as part of his M.Sc. including the major aspects in the water management field, with a purpose of knowledge transfer from developed to developing countries, especially the MENA region.

B. Wakileh Contracting Name: Nabil Wakileh The Monitoring purpose: 1. The monitoring will be used by Wakileh for their R & D purposes 2. The monitoring will be used by Wakileh to assess the workability of the systems during the year of warranty to which they are committed. Bio: Refer to Wakileh.co website

The Monitoring Plan Outcomes

1. The performance of the project 2. Life Cycle Assessment 3. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats 4. Refined Sustainability Plans 5. The handover of the project to the authorities with sustainable comprehensive O & M plans 6. Scientific paper draft

The Monitoring Time Frame

Field/Office Data Collection: 6 Months (Nov 2019 to April 2020) Monitoring Data Assessment/Modeling & Reporting: 3 Months (May 2020 to July 2020) Final Reporting to UNICEF: Aug 2020

Field Obligatory Terms by Monitors

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1. Do not leave the leftovers of meals, drinks and cigarette on site and dispose of them appropriately in the nearest basket, garbage bag or container. 2. Clean the site or place completely after the completion of the required work. 3. Never smoke inside the buildings. 4. Not to sit with the management and institutional cadres in the workplace and the host community, except for the absolute necessity to avoid hindering institutional work and disturb the cadres, students and the community as a whole. 5. Not to request any kind of hospitality from the institutional staff except if they have shown strong desire to do so. 6. Don't use of personal relations to carry out the work expect necessity approved by MIRRA headquarters. 7. Wearing MIRRA's Vests and bands on site

Monthly Deliverables by Monitors

1. The monitors must post once a month about the project performance on MIRRA Face Book Page, Website and LinkedIn Page 2. MIRRA's Monitoring Officer Field Visit Forms 3. The monthly monitoring data Forms 4. Monthly Monitoring Report (must include the month/cumulative data assessment, work progress and challenges)

The Data to Be Monitored

1. Wastewater treatment plants and gray water systems: Water flow and Number of working hours of the various equipment. 2. Irrigation System Performance: Water Flow, Water Pressure and Uniformity of the drippers 3. Water Quality: More than 13 chemical and biological parameters to be measured at Wakileh labs, MIRRA labs and WAJ Note: There are specific forms for each data type include the exact parameters, Sampling events, measurement procedures and Measurement frequency.