USAID grants $2.95 million to UNESCO-IHE to improve groundwater management in MENA region |
USAID, the United States Agency for International Development has awarded a $2.95 million grant to UNESCO’s Institute for Water Education (IHE-Delft) for the creation of a “collaborative knowledge network” aimed at improving the management of groundwater in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. The MENA region includes Lebanon, Tunisia, Jordan, Algeria, the Palestinian Territories, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman.
Development of the three-year project will take place at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (Delft, the Netherlands), a UNESCO Category 1 Institute, with support from research institutions in the U.S., the Netherlands, and the Middle East/North Africa region. consortium organized around the United States’ Category 2 Institute, the International Center for Integrated Water Resource Management (ICIWaRM), was actively involved in the grant application process and will continue to complement the work of the sub-network and provide expertise throughout its implementation. ICIWaRM is headquartered at the U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources (IWR) in Alexandria, Virginia and has been under the auspices of UNESCO since October 2009.
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