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EU projects join forces to enhance public private partnerships in water infrastructure in Mediterranean countries

12-01-2012

Twenty five high-level professionals from Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Territory, Tunisia and other Mediterranean countries took part in the training course on Mediterranean Public Private Partnership (PPP) schemes in Water Infrastructure organised by two EU-funded projects, the Horison 2020 initiative and the recently launched Sustainable Integrated Water management (SWIM) project.
 
A press release said the three-day regional training course, organized in Amman, Jordan from 19 to 21 December 2011, sought to deepen the participants’ know how on the concept of PPP for different projects, their capacity to identify risks and risk sharing methods as well as their implications, always within the context of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM).
 
The course consisted of four main parts: (1) Background and type of Private Sector Participation (PSPs) and selection methodology, (2) Enabling environment, risk management and allocation, (3) Financial considerations and modeling, and (4) Case studies.
 
The Sustainable Integrated Water management (SWIM) project aims to actively promote the extensive dissemination of sustainable water management policies and practices in the region in the context of increasing water scarcity, combined pressure on water resources from a wide range of users, and desertification processes, in connection with climate change.
 
The Horizon 2020 initiative aims to improve the quality of life of more than 420 million citizens living in the 25 countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It is an umbrella programme drawing together all the policies, strategies and action plans for enhancing environmental protection.
 
Horizon 2020 has mechanisms in capacity-building, research, monitoring and review that place the initiative in an excellent position to address the challenges it faces and ensure the efficient and effective use of the available resources. The inclusion of the Horizon 2020 Initiative as one of the six components of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) adds to the political impetus to address major environmental challenges. (ENPI Info Centre)
 
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Press release
 
Sustainable Water Management and De-pollution of the Mediterranean – fiche and news 
 
Horizon 2020 - website
 
ENPI Info Centre interview on H2020 – Battling to beat pollution in the Mediterranean Sea
 
 


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