Cases, environment and climate change
Making Water Cooperation Happen in Middle East & North Africa: Piloting Tangibles MENA Water Matchmaker 2
The MENA Water Matchmaker 2 Project was built around demonstrating Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus local technical solutions in Jordan and Palestine in a cross-country context, combined with promoting employability and entrepreneurship for youth and women, while elaborating and disseminating knowledge and policy tools that enable scaling-up of such interventions
Tags: Water management, Climate resilience, Water, Energy, Food, Ecosystems.
Challenges addressed
- The COVID-19 conditions imposed certain obstacles to the Project implementation up to late 2021, including related to travel bans, particularly to Palestine, limiting opportunities for the Project Team to engage with national authorities, stakeholders as well as technical and development partners. In response, all available e-means were intensively utilised, including a range of consultations with the Palestinian counterparts.
- At different periods, security reasons have challenged, and at times prevented, the commuting of the Project Team to the field sites in Palestine. Due to a prolonged turmoil in the first half of 2023, it was not possible to hold the inauguration event of the Sa’ir Technical intervention. The Palestinian beneficiary farmers as well as representatives of stakeholders participated in the inauguration of the technical interventions in Salt, Jordan, as well as in the capacity-building course that was organised back-to-back.
- Project procurement, evaluation, and contracting of technical interventions faced delays, not uncommon for such procedures, including while these abide by EU procurement rules that are followed by UfM and GWP-Med.
- Implementation of technical interventions faced delays for different reasons, including property rights matters, technical challenges in connecting to the electricity grid, etc.
Main objectives
- Prove, through piloting (Jordan/Palestine, Cross-Country Context), the integrated concept of applying local WEFE (water, energy, food and ecosystem) Nexus technical solutions while capacitating beneficiary groups on employment options, offering measurable and scalable contributions for further application in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries, and assisting the UfM Water Agenda to enter and mark progress on tangible benefits, contributing to Sweden’s Strategy for MENA 2021-2025.
Facts
Project type Water Management, WEFE Nexus
Partnership Implemented by Global Water Partnership – Mediterranean (GWP-Med) in collaboration with local authorities.
Funding It was financially supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) through a ‘fund-forwarding’ arrangement to GWP-Med through the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
Start date 1st October 2020
Website GWP Med Inauguration ; GWP Med Jordan Pilot
Project description
The project ‘Making Water Cooperation Happen in MENA: Piloting Tangibles’, aka MENA Water Matchmaker 2, which is funded by Sida and UfM and implemented by GWP-Med, aims to equip UfM MENA countries, specifically Jordan and Palestine, with tangible and scalable local technical solutions, combined with employability capacitation as well as with selected applicable and shareable policy tools, for improved water management and climate resilience, through multi-stakeholder, multi-sectorial and gender mainstreaming approaches while assisting the UfM Water Agenda to enter and mark progress on tangible benefits, contributing to Sweden’s Strategy for MENA 2021-2025.
Impact and results
- Field indicatorsJordan:
- Capacity of treated wastewater [6 months (April – September) per year]: 21 m3/day
- 3.843 m3 for 183 days.
- Renewable energy production [for 5 hours per day and 6 months (April – September) per year: 72 kWp installed, 65.880 kWh for 183 days.
- Carbon dioxide saved (0,233 kg CO2e/kWh): 15.360 kg CO2e
- Cost impact on the selected farms (cost saving per year, in USD): Commercial price = $0,123/kW $8.103,24
- Quality of treated wastewater (for irrigation, in compliance with the National Standards): in compliance.
Palestine:
- Capacity of treated wastewater [6 months (April – September) per year]: 45 m3/day
- 8.235 m3 for 183 days.
- Renewable energy production [for 5 hours per day and 6 months (April – September) per year: 60 kWp installed, 54.900 kWh for 183 days.
- Carbon dioxide saved (0,233 kg CO2e/kWh): 12.800 kg CO2e
- Cost impact on the selected farms (cost saving per year, in USD): Commercial price = $0,0723/kWh, $3.969,27
- Quality of treated wastewater (for irrigation, in compliance with the National Standards): in compliance.
Socio-economic indicators:
Jordan:
- No. of families benefiting by the project (direct beneficiaries): 5
- No. of farmers engaged in the project: 8
- No. of female farmers engaged in the project: 2
- No. of young scientists, researchers and trainees: 2
- No. decision makers, managers involved in the project: 8
Palestine:
- No. of families benefiting by the project (direct beneficiaries): 6
- No. of farmers engaged in the project: 17
- No. of female farmers engaged in the project: 3
- No. of young scientists, researchers and trainees: 2
- No. decision makers, managers involved in the project: 6
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