Task 3.1: Review of recent EUWI/WFD joint process activities and related practices – Bridging inputs and needs for non-EU countries
The project partner International Office of Water reviewed water policy experiences in non-EU countries and especially the recent practices of transfer of knowledge acquired in EU countries towards Mediterranean non-EU countries. The aim of this work is to propose a mechanism for helping to implement IWRM (WFD) principles in Mediterranean non-EU countries, which is tested in two pilot river basins (Sebou-Marocco, Litani-Lebanon).
Nine initiatives have been analysed to highlight their strong/week points and lessons learnt (for more information, click on the project name below). Only two of them are directly related to the WFD (MED-JP and institutional twinning):
MED-EUWI ( MEDiterranean component of the EUropean Water Initiative)
MED-EUWI/WFD Joint Process (Joint Process between Med-EUWI and Water Framework Directive)
EMWIS (Euro-Mediterranean Water Information System)
MEDA Water Programme (Euro Mediterranean Regional programme for Local Water management)
MENBO (MEditerranean Network of Basin Organisations)
EU TWINNING PROGRAMMES
TwinBasinXM project (Twinning between Basin organisations, FP6)
INWEB (International Network of Water Environment centres of Balkans)
WWI by WWF (Water and Wetland Index)
The main lessons learnt :
- The main lessons learnt regarding the implementation of the WFD principle in non-EU countries are:
- To promote a bottom-up and participatory approach (enhancing the interface between the local and national level, the dissemination of the results on the national level and the improvement of the training for capacity building),
- To finance the initiative’s activities and WFD implementation (financing management of projects, coordination of the partners, network of experts and transfer of technologies as monitoring…),
- To hold the attention of the people involved
- in working on concrete cases, tools, tests on field, dissemination of the results, training of end-users…
- in developing EU instruments of cooperation long enough to maintain the efforts of the non-EU countries in their change
- in adapting the WFD principles to the specific context
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