USAID - Water Management in the South Caucasus

Water Management in the South Caucasus

USAID; contracted with Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI)

EU Tacis; Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW); NATO South Caucasus Program; UNECE; JICA Technical Assistance; UNEP GRID; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (DEZA); WMO; UNDP; OECD Environmental Programme; etc.

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National Counterpart Agencies; Collaborating Organizations; Key Stakeholders in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia; Key International Participants

South Caucasus (Kura and Aras/Araks River Basin System)

Sept 2000 - July/Sept 2004

completed (July 2004)

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Project web-site of the USAID South Caucasus Water Program (SCWP)

Recently updated (Sep 06) with a “Maps” page (The dynamic Internet Map Services (IMS) will be available via SCWP web site in early 2007

The project goal is to increase the dialogue for sustainable water management between representatives in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in the riparian states of the South Caucasus, and to encourage bilateral actions on the sustainable use of natural resources.

The general activities include support to the appropriate agencies in each country for:

• Monitoring, data exchange, and training in each country,
• Integrated river basin planning in bilateral pilot areas, and
• Institutional framework for addressing water policy issues in the region.

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PROJECT SUMMARY

The project activities have been successful in increasing sustainable water management among the stakeholders in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia in:

• Monitoring and Data Exchange - provided practical demonstration projects that restarted the monitoring programs, and developed and implemented a common database for web-based data sharing in the region;
• Training Programs - developed an extensive training program at the local and national levels for basic and advanced data management, geographic information systems, and web site development, including a basin model of the Debed River in Armenia;
• Integrated River Basin Planning - increased understanding of effective water management in the Khrami-Debed River basin, and included the completion of seven (7) prefeasibility evaluation reports and 70 grants that increased the effective participation of stakeholders in river basin planning issues;
• Institutional and Legal Framework - provided policy support for sustainable water management that addressed and prioritized water issues with the extensive collaboration of counterpart agencies, other donors, and project implementers in the region;
• Basin Council Development - initiated stakeholder meetings in the river basins that included the preparation of registration documents and support for the establishment of basin councils that resulted in the formal registration of three new basin council organizations at the grass-roots level; and
• Leveraging of Support - leveraged support from other contractors and donors to continue the public awareness in the basin areas, to conduct a study tour on basin management in the US, and to consider the funding of the prefeasibility evaluations in a phased program.

(For more on project results see Selcted Project Results or browse the Selected Reports from Phase 2 and Selected Reports from the Extension Period)

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