EuroMediterranean

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Euro-Mediterranean
WPF
WATER and POVERTY FACILITY
Type 2 Initiative Egypt, Greece and GWP-Med
Prof. Michael Scooullos
Chairman, GWP-Med
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Euro-Mediterranean Water and Poverty Facility
Typology of interventions for poverty eradication
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Euro-Mediterranean Water and Poverty Facility
OBJECTIVES
- To assist in improving the livelihoods of poor
people primarily in urban areas of the
Mediterranean, particularly in relation to water
and sanitation
- To contribute in designing guidelines on
social performance of water pricing

• Develop guidelines and expertise aiming to
  facilitate
• the integration of poverty reduction components
  and
• impact on poverty assessments in major water
  projects

- Develop functional tripartite initiatives to
facilitate regional and national investment on
Water and Poverty initiatives
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Euro-Mediterranean Water and Poverty Facility
OBJECTIVES - More specifically the WPF will
- Elaborate and implement a Plan of Action
for compatible economic instruments and
incentives for securing a min amount of
safe water per capita in urban areas at low
price for building in poverty abatement
components in on-going and new bilateral
and multilateral projects for water
sanitation for contingency plans and for
reduction of risks from floods for
appropriate formal and informal education
for appropriate capacity building schemes
- Create a multistakeholders Partners Forum
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Euro-Mediterranean Water and Poverty Facility
LEAD PARTNERS

• LEAD PARTNERS
• Egypt, Greece and GWP-Med

- Task Group and Steering Committee Chairman
H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zeid Minister of Water
Resources and Irrigation, Egypt
- Task Group and Steering Committee Co-
Chairman H.E. Dr. George Papandreou
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece
DURATION
7 Years
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Euro-Mediterranean Water and Poverty Facility
PARTNERS confirmed
IGOs EU Commission World Bank /
METAP OECD GWP UNEP / Blue Plan CEDARE
COUNTRIES Egypt Greece Tunisia Morocco
MAJOR GROUPS MIO-ECSDE RAED EPE IME ICLEI
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Euro-Mediterranean Water and Poverty Facility
EXPECTED RESULTS
- Act as a regional model forum for synergies
to promote integration of poverty abatement
components in projects for water sanitation
- Operate as a think tank to provide expertise
and insight

• Intervene at local level and in 12 specific
  project areas applying
• the WPF methodologies

- Act as an observatory of investments on water
and their alignment with sustainability
indicators
- Act as a capacity building channel on IWRM and
poverty eradication
- Support sectoral triple bottom line benchmarking
- Raise awareness and educate on best practices
- Assist countries to raise the issue higher in
their national agendas
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Euro-Mediterranean Water and Poverty Facility
TIME FRAME
- Year 1 Set up of the WPF and its governing
bodies Plans of Actions
elaborated and agreed Donors
engaged and funds mobilized
Initiation of local activities
Simple monitoring system established
- Year 2 First set of local activities
implemented tangible results
- Year 5 Expansion of the WPF in more
Mediterranean countries and
eventually in rural areas
Transfer of know-how, adaptation initiation
of WPFs in other regions
- Year 7 Full set of activities implemented
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Euro-Mediterranean Water and Poverty Facility
Activities undertaken
- Planning Meeting organised
- High level launching in Johannesburg
- Presentation in international / regional events
including Kyoto
- Elaboration of the detailed project proposal
Next steps
- Better marketing of the project proposal to
donors

• Methodological framework for financial
  requirements to meet
• MDGs / WSSD targets related to WSS in the
  Mediterranean

• Elaboration of a Baseline Assessment on WSS and
  Poverty
• in South and East Mediterranean

• Pilot Local Assessments on Water and Poverty in
  2 projects

- Presentation in CSD 12 and other events
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Mediterranean Component
of the EU Water Initiative
LEAD COUNTRY GREECE
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Focus Themes of the Mediterranean Component

• Water supply and sanitation,
• with emphasis on the poorest part of the
  societies
• Integrated water resources management,
• with emphasis on management of transboundary
  water bodies
• - Water, food and environment interaction,
• with emphasis on fragile ecosystems
• - Non-conventional water resources

and Horizontal Focus Themes on - Transfer of
technology and know how training - Education