Chers
Collègues, members of Twinbasin Steering Committee,
In the
framework of TwinBasin "Second Call for Proposals for TwinBasin", I wish to
inform you that Mobility Committee gathered on August 23rd in order
to assess received requests.
Nine
(9) eligible proposals were received. They were assessed according to our
Guidelines : mainly the definition of mission objectives, the relevancy of
the exchange towards IWRM implementation and improvement.
Mobility
Committee wishes to underline that strong selection has been made : many
improvements have been required from proponents throughout last weeks and
various requests were not ready enough to be officially proposed to the project
within the deadline.
Mobility
Committee proposes to support the requests submitted by following Basin
Organisations:
2005 C2
T6
:
Black
Sea
River
Directorate
(Bulgaria) and
Dobrogea Littoral Water Directorate
(Romania) ; Main
Topics : IWRM, Integrated Costal Zone Management.
2005 C2
T7
: Organisme pour la Mise en Valeur du
Fleuve Sénégal (OMVS – 3 countries – Headquarters in Senegal) and Niger
Basin Authority (9 countries – Headquarters in
Niger) ; Main
Topics : operation & management of hydraulic structures ; OMVS
Observatory study.
2005 C2 T8
:
Comité de Valorisation et de Concertation du Bassin Versant de la Rivière
Richelieu (COVABAR - Québec)
and Etablissement Public Territorial de Bassin de la Charente (France) ;
Main Topics : Flood prevention, Hydrobiology themes, Basin valorisation by
ecotourism.
2005 C2 T9
:
Segura
River
Basin
Authority
(Spain) and
Crete
River
Basin
Authority
(Greece) ; Main
Topics : Water Framework Directive (WFD), Flood prevention and measuring
networks.
2005 C2
T10 : Agence
de l’Eau Rhône Méditerranée & Corse
(France) and
Agence de Bassin Hydraulique du Tensift (Maroc) ; Main Topics :
Moroccan Basin Organisation development strategy, conception of an Information
System about water resource and financial charges, user
involvement.
2005 C2
T11 :
Ebro
River
Basin
Authority
(Spain) and
Agence de Bassin Hydraulique de Moulouya (Maroc) ; Main
Topics : WFD, GIS-Spatial Data Infrastructure and measuring
networks.
2005 C2
T12 : Motueka
Integrated Catchment Management Program
(New
Zealand) and
Spey Fishery Board (Scotland) ;
Main Topics : IWRM, integrated catchment’s management.
2005 C2 T13
:
Agence de l’Eau Rhône Méditerranée & Corse (France) and Agence de Bassin
Hydraulique du Souss Massa (Maroc) ; Main Topics : Water charge
management, user involvement.
2005 C2 T14
:
Agence de l’eau Artois Picardie (France) and Banat River
Basin Authority
(Romania) ; Main
Topics : WFD, user involvement.
You can
find on Website corresponding Request Forms and Complementary Elements (Twinning
Agreements, Context, Justifications) : www.twinbasin.org within "Members’ Site", in "TWINBASINxn
Missions” / “Call for Proposal” /
“Second Call for Proposals").
Each
member of SC (one person per institution - as the official representative for
TwinBasin project) has received Personal Log in (if not, please contact us).
Two
(2) other proposals were considered non-eligible:
SIC
ICWC
(Uzbekistan), Institut fur Bodenkunde und Standortslehre (Germany)
Direction Générale de l’Hydraulique (Bénin) and Centre de Recherches
Agricoles d’Agonkanmey (Bénin) ; Non-eligibility reasons: most of four
involved structures can not be assimilated to Basin Organisations. There is no
Twinning Agreement. Main topics to be tackled with were not clearly linked to
IWRM and missions were not sufficiently respectful of Project guidelines
(duration, objectives,…).
Lake
Chad
Basin
Commission (Chad) and
ABN (Niger) ;
Non-eligibility reasons: There is no twinning agreement. The topic of the
exchange program isn’t dedicated to TWINBASIN objectives : indeed, the aim of
the proposed mission is the realisation of a meeting which implies a cooperation
agreement signature.
DECISION
PROPOSAL:
Mobility
Committee proposes to accept these 9 eligible proposals, as they respond to main
project requirements.
This
Second Call would imply 48 000 Euros expenses, about 15 % of Mobility
budget.
Steering
Committee Members are required to give their opinion / approval before
September
10th 2005.
For Mobility
Committee
Alain
Bernard
Twinbasin Project Manager
International Office for Water
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4 92 94 58 00
00 33 6 03 02 92 45
www.iowater.org