Promoting Twinning of River Basins for Developing Integrated Water Resources Management Practices

WEBCONFERENCE

January 10th - Alain Bernard, Project Manager

• Objective :Develop Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) good practices, by focusing on Human Resources Development (HRD) in Basin Organisations

• Means :Promotion of Twinning agreements between Basin Org. and support of joint activities for HRD (staff mobility)

• Support for implementation of - Water Framework Directive- European Union Water Initiative « Water for Life »

TwinBasinXN

Promoting Twinning of River Basins for Developing Integrated Water Resources Management Practices

Why ? In many cases Twinning agreements :

• have not really been really implemented above the “political” event organised for the signature of the Agreement and related Communication campaign.

• lacked budget for such “basic” topics as Plane tickets and Per Diem;

• when implemented, their positive results generally gained from these experiments remained confined at the level of directly involved structures and dissemination step is not sufficient

TwinBasinXN

Promoting Twinning of River Basins for Developing Integrated Water Resources Management Practices

• Activities : Think Tank for fruitful twinning between members(Model agreements, type of activities, reporting, …)

Promotion of twinning North-South, S-S, N-N(Partner search facility, …)

Support for peer-to-peer exchanges and staff mobility (hands-on periods in sister-organisation)

Bottom-up identification and promotion of practices (hands-on reporting, community exchanges, web seminars, …)

Dissemination of research outcomes(web seminars, community exchanges, …)

• Partners

– International Office for Water

– Agence de l’Eau Seine Normandie (France)

– International Network of Basin Organisations

– Ea Pôle de l’eau (France)

– Confederacion Hidrografica del Jucar – MENBO (Spain)

– Secretaria de Recursos Hídricos - SRH - Ministry of Environment (Brazil)

– Global Water Partnership (Sweden)

– Techware - Hydrocontrol (Italy)

– RZGW – Gdansk (Poland)

– National Water Authority - OVF (Hungary)

– Interstate Co-ordination Water Commission – Aral Sea (Uzbekistan)

– Jara Tirta I Corporation (Indonesia)

– African Network of Basin Organisations - ANBO (Africa - Niger)

– Basin Agency Algerois – Hodna – Soumman (Algeria)

– Hydraulic Basin Agency – Sebou (Morocco)

– Organisation pour le Mise en Valeur du Senegal (Senegal)

– Comision Nacional del Agua - CNA (Mexico)

– Apele Romane (Romania)

• Description

• A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as voluntarycommitment to participate to the exchanges

• Creation of working groups among participants (Special Interest Groups - SIGs) for production of guidelines, white papers and models (both on twinning and IWRM)

• Supply of grants for supporting staff mobility (according to rules defined by SIG)

• Implementation of an IT infrastructure for communication (collaborative work, news dissemination, webconferences, ...) and knowledge management

• Special Interest Groups - SIGs• SIG Twinning :

– promotion of twinning agreements between BO; – setting of operating rules for profitability of the exchanges.

• SIG Mobility : – organising financial support of the project to the mobility of BO professionals;– delivering allowances when all criteria are fulfilled.

• SIG Dissemination : – knowledge management from research and from twinning activities, – identification / implementation of diffusion ways (including e learning) ;

• SIGs on IWRM topics : later on, to promote exchanges on the practices identified in BO-members

MoUthe entry point

Efficient Twinning

SIG Mobility

SIG Twinning

SIG Dissemination

SIG IWRMStaff

Mobility

Models, rules, recommendations, reports, practices, seminars

• Facts and figures

• A core group of 17 participants (actual contractors) as the Steering Committee of the project

• Participation to the SIGs : open to all MoU signatories (other Basin Org., Administrations, NGOs, Research teams, Universities, SMEs, …) - objective = 150 members

• Facts and figures

• Boosting at least 25 to 30 agreements based on SIG recommendations during the 4-year project

• Mobility grants for 60 missions / year during periods of 1 week - 2 months (120 man-months) open to BO - MoU signatories (practitioners)

• Link with other twinning-related FP6 projects (cluster)

• Duration : 4 years (Starting date : January 1st, 2004)

• Budget : EUR 900.000

• Supported by the European Commission - DG Research under 6th Framework Program

TWINBASINXN WebSite : www.twinbasin.org

Project advancement

1st Call for Proposals

Project advancement

5 twinnings supported through 1st Call (March 2005)

Júcar River Basin Organisation (REMOC / Confederación Hidrográfica del Júcar)

Spain

Direction Apelor BUZAU-IALOMITA Romania

AELB - Agence de l’Eau Loire Bretagne FranceConsortio Bacia Piracicaba-Capivari-Jundiai Brazil

AESN - Agence de l’Eau Seine Normandie FranceABHAHS - Agence de Bassin Hydrographique Algérois-Hodna-Soummam Algeria

Tajo - Confederación Hidrográfica del Tajo del Ministerio de Medio Ambiente

Espagne

Reventazon - Comision para el Ordernamiento y Manejo de la Cuenca Alta del Rio Costa Rica

AESN - Agence de l’Eau Seine Normandie FranceCNA - Comision National del Agua Mexico

2005C1T3

2005C1T4

Ref. Participant name Country

2005C1T5

2005C1T1

2005C1T2

2nd Call : 9 requests approved in September 2005

Project advancement

Ref. River Basin Organisation Pays

2005 C2 T6 Black Sea River Directorate Bulgarie

  Dobrogea Litoral Water Directorate Roumanie

2005 C2 T7 Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du fleuve Sénégal Sénégal

  Niger Basin Authority Niger

2005 C2 T8 Comité de Valorisation et de concertation du bassin versant de la rivière Richelieu (COVABAR) Québec

 Institution Interdépartementale pour l’Aménagement du Fleuve Charente et de ses affluents (EPTB

Charente)France

2005 C2 T9 Segura River Basin Authority Espagne

  Crete River Basin Authority Grèce

2005 C2 T10 Agence de l’Eau Rhône Méditerranée & Corse France

  Agence de Bassin Hydraulique du Tensift Maroc

2005 C2 T11 Ebro River Basin Authority Espagne

  Moulouya River Basin Agency Maroc

2005 C2 T12 Motueka Integrated Catchment Management Programme Nouvelle Zélande

  Spey Fishery Board Ecosse

2005 C2 T13 Agence de l’Eau Rhône Méditerranée & Corse France

  Agence de Bassin Hydraulique du Souss Massa Maroc

2005 C2 T14 Agence de l’Eau Artois Picardie France

  Banat River Basin Authority Roumanie

14 on-going twinnings (more than 50 missions)

26 Basin Organisations

17 countries

Various and varied topics related to IWRM - FWD implementation- economical and institutional aspects- hydrobiology & hydrology, - coastal waters’ management, - basin valorisation by tourism, - etc.

Project advancement 1st and 2nd Call for proposals

REQUIREMENTS

1. Define a twinning : two basin organisations

2. Sign a twinning agreement

3. Sign Project MoU

4. Submit a Program of exchanges (missions)

1. Two « Basin Organisations »• Public organizations with legal existence, statutes and own

budget:

• applying or being interested in applying integrated water management at river basin level;

• even better if (but not compulsory) :– associating administrations and local authorities, as well as users

from the various sectors, – having specific budgetary resources, through the application of "user-

polluter-pays" principle.

Including organizations managing large national, federal or transboundary river basins

2. Twinning Agreement 1. Identifying a good cooperation between two river basin

organisations

2. Establishing specific points of interest and topics in order to :– Exchange knowledge, learn from each other discussing problems;– Improve expertise;– Foster effectiveness of integrated water management within

organisation;– Improve overall operation of your institutions;– Realise capacity building.

3. Sign the MoU

• If you want to participate actively to make progress in the filed of IWRM mainly through twinning of basin organisations,

• If you have an interest in the deployment of IWRM practices and to help to bridge the gap between RESEARCH and actual IMPLEMENTATION of IWRM principles…

• It is a voluntary agreement with no legal obligation.It represents a public commitment to respect certain principles and to work toward common goals

4. A program of missions

• Generally One or Two weeks duration

• Focused on IWRM : – legal and institutional frameworks,

– economic and financial issues,

– planning aspects,

– technical issues (information systems for instance), communication,

– awareness raising, public participation,

– capacity building and educational actions.

Financial Support from Twinbasin

For each mission :• Travel Cost : limited to 1000 Euros (Plane

ticket in economic class;• Per diem : 70 Euros.

• Extra costs are to be covered by twinners (co-financing);

• Reimbursed costs (no advance payment).

Request form : a program of missions

Reporting Guidelines

Illustration on Website

Approval Procedure

Twinning agreement

Mission proposal

Assessment by Mobility Commitee

Coherency with SIG 1 recommandations

Mission realization

SC Approval

- Coherency with SIG 2 recommandations -Duration : 7 days to 2 months-Relevance for IWRM improvement

- MoU signed

Twinning agreement

Mission proposal

Assessment by Mobility Commitee

Coherency with SIG 1 recommandations

Mission realization

SC Approval

- Coherency with SIG 2 recommandations -Duration : 7 days to 2 months-Relevance for IWRM improvement

- MoU signed

To receive financial support

Mission realization

Mission report(cf. guideline)

Report AnalysisBy Mobility Committee

Report analysisapproval

Financial report(Plane Ticket and

Boarding Pass)

Reimbursement

Knowledgedissemination

YesNo

WELCOME ON BOARD

Promoting Twinning of River Basins for Developing Integrated Water Resources Management Practices

www.twinbasin.org

a.bernard@oieau.fr

10th January 2006