Capacity Building to the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) for the formulation of an Implementation Plan of the MWRI Institutional Reform Vision/Strategy

Description

The Institutional Reform Unit, established in 2002, completed the first phase of the MWRI Institutional Reform (IR) in 2005 which resulted in the development of a vision/strategy for the institutional reform of MWRI. The developed vision is the backbone of the MWRI local administrations restructuring from a centralized into a decentralized organization. The reform process has been divided in 8 strategies, listed below.

The MWRI IR Vision/Strategy has been guided by eight principles:

• Participation: increased responsibility and authority of users
• Decentralization: delegation of MWRI operational responsibilities to horizontally integrated local MWRI administrations
• Basin organization: adoption of hydrological unit boundaries for management and administrative units wherever feasible.
• Water quality: pollution control and prevention as an integrated dimension of water management.
• Private sector participation: increasing the demand for private sector investment and services and facilitating their supply.
• Privatization: divestiture, where feasible, of nonessential MWRI assets and activities.
• Cost recovery: transfer of financial responsibility to users along with management responsibility, recovery of selected main system O&M costs, and partial recovery of selected local I&D improvement costs.
• Interministerial coordination: establishment of National Water Council to ensure policy and program coordination, strengthen laws, and improve enforcement. 

The eight strategies are applied, in different degrees and combinations, to Egypt’s three main water management contexts:  the old lands of the Nile Valley and Delta, the groundwater-based areas of Egypt’s deserts, and the “new lands” developments of Toshka and North Sinai. 

Within this context NSCE with its partner, EcoConServ, are supporting/assisting IRU in the formulation of MWRI IR Vision/ Strategy overall implementation plan 2007-2017 and its rolling plan 2007-2012. In which milestones, activities indicators, timeframe and needed resources were developed for each reform strategy.

See also: TA Project MWRI Institutional Reform (IR) Vision Implementation Plan

For the Capacity Building Component, the consultant worked closely with the IRU in order to analyze the existing organizational structure and to assess the current staff capacity. The consultant reviewed the Vision Implementation Plan documents and other relevant documents to identify required strengths for the MWRI to enable it to build the suitable cadres for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).

Services

Training Needs Assessment:

• Identify the skills and capacities for the staff involved in each strategy at different managerial levels
• Design of training needs assessment plan and tools of implementation
• Validate the TNA tools

Data Compilation and Structural Functional Analysis:

• Review the data analysis
• Identify the training needs for each of the 8 strategies taking into consideration the overlaps of modules and topics

Design of the Training Programs and M&E indicators:

• Develop of detailed training programs
• Design of monitoring and evaluation of the training programs regarding progress and quality
• Design of monitoring and evaluation for impact assessment of the trainees before and after the training courses

Delivery of Consultation Workshop:

• Prepare the material for a consultation workshop to present the developed training plan
• Moderate the workshop.