Water Team Days 2014 – SDC Rés’Eau

Швейцарское Бюро по сотрудничеству - Узбекистан

Посольство Швейцарии

Regional Advisor for Water and Disaster Risk Reduction, 23.06.2014, Thierry Umbehr 1

Water Team Days 2014

Highlights from the CIS Division (Cooperation with Eastern Europe)

Water Team Days 2014 – SDC Rés’Eau

Швейцарское Бюро по сотрудничеству - Узбекистан

Посольство Швейцарии

Regional Advisor for Water and Disaster Risk Reduction, 23.06.2014, Thierry Umbehr 2

Moldova

Ukraine

Tajikistan

KyrgyzstanUzbekistan

Cooperation with Eastern Europe

Community of Independent States CIS

Caucasus

Water Team Days 2014 – SDC Rés’Eau

Швейцарское Бюро по сотрудничеству - Узбекистан

Посольство Швейцарии

Regional Advisor for Water and Disaster Risk Reduction, 23.06.2014, Thierry Umbehr 3

Republic of Moldova

April 2014: New Cooperation Strategy 2014 - 2017

• improve access to Water & Sanitation through replicable models covering nation-wide projects

• SDC leads the Sector Cooperation Council Environment-Water-Sanitation

• Community partnerships in the frame of regionalisation of water operators

• Protocol on Water & Health implementation

2014: ApaSan as a developer of models in WES

• First regional (district) W&S masterplan in Moldova on the way

• Water supply for small villages: moving from community management to multi-village schemes to regional operators

• Ecosan school toilet blocks: high demand and increasing local financial contribution (now 40%)

Water Team Days 2014 – SDC Rés’Eau

Швейцарское Бюро по сотрудничеству - Узбекистан

Посольство Швейцарии

Regional Advisor for Water and Disaster Risk Reduction, 23.06.2014, Thierry Umbehr 4

Moldova

Ukraine

Tajikistan

KyrgyzstanUzbekistan

Cooperation with Eastern Europe

Community of Independent States CIS

Water Team Days 2014 – SDC Rés’Eau

Швейцарское Бюро по сотрудничеству - Узбекистан

Посольство Швейцарии

Regional Advisor for Water and Disaster Risk Reduction, 23.06.2014, Thierry Umbehr 5

Ukraine

November 2013: New Cooperation Strategy postponed

• Possible abandon all projects in Crimea and reallocation in one new province

• Ownership and project cooperation implanted into the Provincial administration (incl. budgets)

• Upscaling of decentralisation projects is assured through incorporated approach

• Urban areas are being included for Water Supply

• Sanitation approaches piloted rural areas

• District water sector strategies are being developed

• National programmes on rural water supply are being studied on request of National Government with sets of recommandations

Water Team Days 2014 – SDC Rés’Eau

Швейцарское Бюро по сотрудничеству - Узбекистан

Посольство Швейцарии

Regional Advisor for Water and Disaster Risk Reduction, 23.06.2014, Thierry Umbehr 6

Moldova

Ukraine

Tajikistan

KyrgyzstanUzbekistan

Cooperation with Eastern Europe

Community of Independent States CIS

Water Team Days 2014 – SDC Rés’Eau

Швейцарское Бюро по сотрудничеству - Узбекистан

Посольство Швейцарии

Regional Advisor for Water and Disaster Risk Reduction, 23.06.2014, Thierry Umbehr 7

Central AsiaKyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

June 2014: Mid-Term Review of the Cooperation Strategy

• Water Resources Management Projects remain the key activities

• Water Diplomacy, Watershed management and Climate Change increase in importance

• Water Supply and Sanitation is confirmed as a priority sector

• SDC continues to lead the sector councils in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, informally in Uzbekistan

• World Bank publishes the Rogun dam (335 m) feasibility studies

Water Team Days 2014 – SDC Rés’Eau

Швейцарское Бюро по сотрудничеству - Узбекистан

Посольство Швейцарии

Regional Advisor for Water and Disaster Risk Reduction, 23.06.2014, Thierry Umbehr

CIS – Division: Water highlights

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