Newsletter September 2012 SaafConsult

Contents: Introduction | Projects | Pipeline | CarboWet Foundation

Introduction

This is the third newsletter of SaafConsult this year and the first after the summer break.Things are still moving rapidly the last three months. Even in this summer there were new developments, new projects and new opportunities in the Mid-dle East, Asia, Europe and Africa. Let me start with an update of the on-going projects at the moment. Projects

Tunis

In Tunis, SaafConsult won the African Development Bank project “Water and Sanitation Project Evaluations’ Review and Synthesis”. This is the first time that we win a project directly with the AfDB and not through another company. The main purpose of this assignment is to contribute to the on-going reflection within the African Development Bank on quality water and sanitation project design and imple-mentation for better development results on the ground in order to reinforce the effectiveness of the Bank’s Man-agement and Water and Sanitation Department. Our main tasks for this project are:• Toassessthequality,andvalidatesixprojectcom pletions reports (PCRs) in the Water and Sanita tionsector(seelistinannex);• Tosynthesizetheevaluativefindings,conclusions, lessons learned and issues from the available 2010- 2012 Water and Sanitation PCR-ENs and PPERs(see listinannex)• Providesubstantivecommentsandsuggestions on the i) draft evaluation report on Integrated Wa ter Resources Management (IWRM), and i) review of River Resources Management (RRM)

Consultants involved: Ele Jan Saaf en Vincent van Haaren

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Projects and Pipeline

Nepal

Ele Jan went to Nepal in August for the “Planning of Completion Phase for The Rural Water Supply and Sani-tation Project in Western Nepal” a project with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. Ele Jan was the In-ternational Climate Sustainability and Ecosystem Based Natural Resources Management Adviser for this project.

Consultant involved: Ele Jan Saaf

Tajikistan

InTajikistanMarieKörneristheexpertfortheSDCfund-ed “Drinking Water Tariff Research and Development of the Tajikistan Water Supply and Sanitation Project”. The project is to review Tajikistan national, and relevant international, drink water tariff practices and develop a set of recommendations to present to members of the TAJWSS network and for potential implementation in 2 pilot districts.

Consultant involved: Marie Körner

European Commission - Jordan

In Jordan, in cooperation with HTSPE, we have signed a contract with the EC to evaluate “The Programme Management Unit (PMU) of the Greater Amman Water Sector Improvement Programme. The EC funded pro-ject: The Programme Management Unit (PMU) of the Greater Amman Water Sector Improvement Programme (GAWSIP) has been completed in 2006, however some activities were continued under the Al Meyyah project and phased out by the mid of 2008.





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Palestine

Together with CEC Palestine, we have been invited by the Palestinian Water Authority to write a proposal for Water Sector Capacity Building Project to prepare strategies for Transboundary Water Resources Management and pro-grams for Palestinian Transboundary water resources in ab-sence of a comprehensive agreement with Israel on water.

Consultant involved: Ele Jan Saaf , Sabrina Doetjes

UNDP - Jordan

For the UNDP in Jordan, we are asked to map and assess existingandpotentiallinkagesbetweenclimatechangeadaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR), Assist the Government of Jordan to design a Framework for Ac-tion and a detailed three-year Action Plan to promote po-tential linkages between current efforts to promote climate change adaptation and current disaster risk management efforts with the objective of increasing natural and human resilience. We are asked to identify and develop a project proposal to be supported by UNDP.


Presentation International Conference on Fresh Water Governance for Sustainable Development5th - 7th November 2012 : Drakensberg, South Africa

Ele Jan Saaf and Belynda Petrie (One World Sustainable In-vestments, Cape Town) will give a presentation about how Transboundary River Basin Management can contribute to peace and prosperity. The presentation aims to present case studies from the Jordan River Basin, the Indus River Basin, theZambeziBasin,theNileBasinandtheLimpopoBasin.The common denominator of these case studies will be to identify and illustrate the core strengths of transbound-ary river basin management as more than just a format for planning.


CarboWet

CarboWet is currently writing a proposal to to be eligible for CrowdFunding possibilities. We’re submitting our pro-posal on the website of Crowdfunding Facilities (http://www.crowdfundingfacilities.com/).

Crowdfunding Facilities is an online platform for non-prof-it organizationswhoareopen tonewwaysof attractingmoney.

We think that CarboWet will fit in because our research is like the projects presented on crowdfunding. They are real projects, with a real promise.

Best regards,

Ele Jan Saaf

Managing Director SaafConsult B.V.

Found out more about the CarboWet Foundation:

http://saafconsult.com/car-bowetFoundation.html

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