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Stakeholder
Participatory Sustainable Water Management at Farm Level
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| Partners | Countries | Contacts | Contact Adresses |
| HWA – Hilfswerk Austria (Consortium Leader) | AU | Heidi Burkhart Director of Programs |
Ebendorferstrasse 6 1010 Vienna Tel. +431 40 57 500-30 Fax +431 40 57 500-60 Mobile +43676 8787 60100 |
| FPSC – Fundación Promoción Social de la Cultura | ES | Belén García Masó | MEDA desk office Madrid C/ Huertas, 71 -5º decha 28014 Madrid Tel: +34 91 344 01 76 Fax: +34 91 344 03 66 |
| JRF – Jordan River Foundation | JO | Maha Khatib Director General |
P.O.Box 2943 Amman 11181, Jordan Tel: +962-6-5933211 Fax: +962-65933210 |
| JOHUD – The Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development | JO | Farah Daghistani Executive Director |
P.O.Box 5118 Amman 11183, Jordan Tel: +962-6-5825241 Fax: +962-6-5827350 |
| PARC – Palestinian Agriculture Committee | PS | Ismail Daiq Director General |
P.O.Box 25128 Shu’fat – Jerusalem, Via Israel Tel: +970-2269-3840 Fax: +970-2269-3850 |
Hanan Salah
Project Coordinator
Hilfswerk Austria
Amman, Jordan
Mob. +962-79-5406365
Off. +962-6-5523576
Project Summary:
The irrigation system in Jordan and Palestine is strongly impaired due to
socio-economic, cultural and technological lacks. Out-standing problems are an
inefficient and ineffective water management of national water resources,
outdated and partly leaking water networks, bad water quality, inefficient
irrigation networks, limited quantities of water per household and the training
lacking of the population as the optimal use of limited water resources.
Apart from a well coordinated technical improvement of water quality and irrigation management, a fundamental and systematic improvement of the relations between the individual groups of interests on municipality and local level is of crucial importance for the regional development in Jordan and Palestine. Due to the different interests of the irrigation suppliers and the farmers an external intervention is necessary, in order to adjust these relations and introduce an institutionalised communication process.
A further problem in the present relations between the groups of interests are the conditions of women in the agriculture. Although women carry the largest load in the agriculture, they are not merged in decisions and educational facilities. The reason therefore is both, the traditional understanding of roles and the technical training lacking. There are initiatives of local NGOs, which aim at the support and revaluation of the women, but not as a relevant strategic goal in the country or as priority topic.
The available project connects two approaches – the socio-economic and the technical – for the solution of the multilayered problems of the water management in Jordan. The aim is a complete and sustainable improvement of the regional development.
The project starts with the definition and systematic inclusion of local/regional and national groups of interests and leads to the definition of a know-how and technology basis for the further implementation in technical and non-technical training, as well as to demonstration and pilot activities and equipment (irrigation networks, collective wastewater treatment, construction of common and individual reservoirs and cisterns, rehabilitation of production wells, etc.). Through the access to a relevant national and international know-how, the knowledge basis of the groups of interests and final consumers is extended by means of professional trainings in 8 different sections of sustainable Water-resource-Management. This knowledge and consciousness basis are decisive for the core activities of the available project:
Efficient water supply management activities are implemented like
Ø Pilot projects for the salvage of sewage,
Ø Irrigation networks,
Ø Demonstration of non-conventional irrigation technologies,
Ø Enlargement of capacities of reservoirs, cisterns and wells,
Ø Rehabilitation of wells and distributing systems,
Ø Establishment of back gardens and thus integration of the final consumers,
Ø Demonstration of biological agriculture and,
Ø Demonstration of waste water use methods in households.
At the same time organisational structures are created (associations, cooperations, forums) with institutionalised strategic interfaces. These structures shall not only act as committees for the exchange of opinions, experiences or well working training models on micro-economic level, but also strengthen the capacities of the groups of interests and municipalities. A decisive role in these organisms has to come to women.
The complementary of technical “Hardware” and socio-economic “Software” is a direct answer to the complexity of the problem definition and aims a sustainable improvement of the regional development.
Projects documents available for MEDWA
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