Egyptian Water Partnership

5- A Task Force for Local Action on Pollution Abatement and Prevention was established. The Task Force held its first meeting on 17 November 2003, and selected Mubarak Industrial City, Qowesna, Munofeya Governorate, to be the area of the local action.

6- Training "Water Demand Management" in Sharm ElSheikh, Egypt, 14-17 December 2003.

7- Conference "Solid Waste Management – Problems and Solutions"

المكتب العربى للشباب والبيئة , 28-29 December 2003. Cairo

8- Seminar "Water Policies and Regional cooperation between Nile Basin Countries in the field of Water Resources Management" Center for Developing Environmental Management, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, 29^th December 2003.

9- Association of Enterprises for Environmental Conservation, Seminar

"كيفية القضاء على مشكلة تلوث مياه خزانات المبانى" , 20^th January 2004.

10- APP Workshop o MWRI Young Professional Organization (YPO) 14-18 January 2004, Ein El Sukhna.

11- Attending Seminar "Egyptian Environment and Mondial 2010", 27^th January 2004, Conrad Hotel.

12- Attending Final Seminar of the Egyptian – Dutch funded project "The Groundwater Sector", 18-19 February 2004 in Ein EL Sukhna.

13- A kick-off workshop for the local action (المشاركة فى الحفاظ على الموارد المائية من التلوث) was held at “El-Araby Engineering Company” in Mubarak Industrial City, Qowesna, February 22^nd 2004.

There was extensive media coverage of the event, and the recommendations of the workshop were also published in a large number of newspapers and magazines.

14- Following the workshop, the local action started by selecting four locations in Quesna, where the EWP, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, and NGOs joined forces and cleaned the canals in these areas. The local authority of the Munofeya Governorate then provided its equipment for the removal of the wastes (solid wastes) picked up from the canals. Awareness signs were launched at these four locations.

Currently, the development of a mechanism for solid waste collection at these locations is being studied and discussed to be implemented in the very near future.

15- Attending Brain storming meeting, Advisory Panel Project on Water Management, 25th February 2004, APP Central Office, kanter.

16- Attending EMPOWERS Project "Documentation and Information Workshop" 29^th Feb – 4^th March 2004, Sonesta Hotel, Cairo.

17- GWP-Med Partnership Council meeting, 17-18 March 2004, Brussels.

18- Meeting for Heads of Sectors and Dutch Projects at the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation with the consultants to discuss Head lines of Joint cooperation programme, 20^th March 2004, APP.

19- Meeting on polluted places with Dr. Robert Zoober, 21^st March 2004.

20- On the occasion of the World Water Day, 22 March, the EWP in cooperation with LIFE Prgramme of the UNDP, and local NGOs held workshops and local actions in 19 Governorates of Egypt in parallel. Each workshop was accompanied by an awareness campaign. Awareness materials developed by the EWP, MWRI, and the Arab Office for Youth and Environment (AOYE) were distributed during the workshops.

Following each workshop a clean-up local action of water resources in a pilot area was implemented.

21- Eighth International Conference for Water Technology, 26-27 March 2004, Alexandria. Workshop "Water Demand Management & Arab Water Security", 26-27 March 2004, Alexandria.

22- The Arab Water Council Launching Meeting, Cairo, Egypt, 14 April 2004

23- Regional Roundtable on Accountability in Service Delivery in the Water/Sanitation & Power Sectors, 18 -19 May 2004, Marrakech.

24- International Water Demand Management Conference, Dead Sea, Jordan, 31 May – 3 June 2004.

25- Public Awareness meeting with Sheraton representative and UNDP, 7 June, 2004.

26- 9th Global Water Partnership (GWP) Consulting Partners Annual Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11-12 June 2004. During this meeting, a number of networking activities and establishing links took place such as:

- Meeting with Dr. Shahrizaila Abdullah and Dr. Salmah, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12 June 2004, discussing contour lines for cooperation/collaboration between EWP and MyWP. Among which are IWRM capacity building programmes where exchange of resources persons is a possibility, wastewater treatment, and information exchange.

- Meeting with Dr. Kees Leendertse, Cap-Net, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12 June 2004, where the possibility of establishing the Egyptian Cap-Net was discussed. Also the forthcoming capacity building activities organized by Cap-Net were explored for potential involvement of the EWP.

- Meeting with Ms. Attie J. Kuiken, Project Officer, Netherlands Water Partnership, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 14 June 2004. (Means of cooperation and support of NWP to EWP were discussed).

- Meeting with Mr. Munguti Katui-Katua, Kenyan Water Partnership (which is a newly established Country Water Partnership), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 14 June 2004, where it was agreed to initiate bilateral cooperation between the EWP and KWP (maybe in capacity building), and to promote partnerships among the CWP's of the Nile Basin.

- GWP Workshop on IWRM Guidance Document, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 13-14 June 2004, where EWP representative provided the working groups with recommendations for the reorganization of the structure of the document, and suggestions for the technical content.

27- Workshop for Capacity Building of the Middle Management Staff of the MWRI, Port Said, 14-16 July 2004, where a presentation on EWP was given.

28- World Water Day organized by the MWRI.

29- EMPOWERS workshop on IWRM, BeniSuef, 25 August 2004, where a number of local actions were identified within a participatory approach with all stakeholders. EWP has agreed with EMPOWERS to contribute to the sanitation local action.

30- Consultative Workshop on the IIIMP, Cairo, 31st August 2004.

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