Stockholm - Sweden, 17 Aug 08 - 23 Aug 08

The ETG will be holding a Side Event at water week to launch the EMPOWERS publications as well as share our expeiences at the MENA Seminar on "Innovations in groundwater management for the Middle East and North Africa Region".

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EMPOWERS Partnership is proud to launch and share with the water and development communities a set of five publications related to local water governance and its different aspects. All publications can be accessed and downloaded from under EMPOWERS Main Outputs or our ETG Resources. The publications range from guidelines, methods and tools for use in an innovative approach to planning and dialogue within and between local and intermediate level stakeholders; to a Guide to Process Documentation.

Another publication is a story book documenting the successes and challenges faced by the community people and the water service providers as they plan together for the better management and development of their villages’ water resources. While the last publication is a set of principles and recommendations for policy and practice for improved local water governance…

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All publications advocate a process of collaboration through dialogue, to bring about a change in the way water sector professionals and water users work with each other to better plan and manage their water resources, as well as, advocate the inclusion of marginalised groups in these planning and decision making process…

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Click read more for the complete list and information about these publications. All publications are available in Arabic..

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Despite the end of our project in August 2007, EMPOWERS local partners in the governorates, district and villages have continued with their work in implementing the activties and plans they developed during the time EMPOWERS Project was still being implemented.

In the Balqa Governorate, Jordan, our partners in the Governorate launhed the first phase in the establishment of an integrated water information management system (WIMS) that covers the different directorates and departments in the governorate. Click Read more to read the translated news article that appeared in the Jordanian Daily News Paper " Al Rai" on March 6th, 2008.

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The EMPOWERS Family would like to bid a

Big Farewell and Thank You to all its friends, colleagues, and last but not least, the MEDA Water for the past 4 fruitful years, and for making our programme a success...

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Although August 31st, 2007 was officially the last day of EMPOWERS; it was not the end of it...

No! that date was the first day of a new beginning and a new collaboration in the form of The EMPOWERS Thematic Group (ETG)...so you haven’t seen the end of us yet ; - )

Believing in its value, several EMPOWERS Partners have decided to form the ETG to build on and continue developing the methodologies and tools that were developed by EMPOWERS (2003 - 2007) on participatory planning for improved local water governance.

Soon, the ETG will launch its new website under which all the content of this EMPOWERS website will be transferred there.

Therefore, for now, instead of saying Farewell, we’ll say Au revoir !

Please keep a lookout for more news from the ETG..

Au revoir

The EMPOWERS Family

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October 2007

External_Evaluation_Report_EMPOWERS_October_2007.pdf  (533 kB)

Overview of the EMPOWERS Partnership Programme

2003 - 2007

During the last four years, the EMPOWERS Partnership Programme has been developing and piloting innovative methods, tools and technologies for improving local water governance.

This brochure provides a brief overview of the approach developed by The EMPOWERS Partnership and a description of the piloting that has taken place at the village, district and governorate levels over the duration of the project, from Sept. 2003 to August 2007.

In case you face problems in opening the brochure, right click on the link below, then choose 'save link as' to save the document on your desktop.

Read more or download Empowers at a Glance - EN.pdf  (1.07 MB)

The following 7 Amman Principles have been adopted on the 7th of June 2007, at the regional Forum for Local Water Governance in Amman - Jordan.

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Under the patronage of His Royal Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan, the EMPOWERS Partnership is holding its Regional Forum on Local Water Governance, entitled “Water is everybody’s business.” in Amman, Jordan on June 6-7, 2007.

The Forum's principal objective is to promote a policy environment that is conducive to participatory stakeholder based approaches to planning and implementing water sector activities.

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Follow the link to read about a water management pilot that focuses on building the capacity of women in particular, to work in advocacy that will improve their access to water.

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EMPOWERS Partnership has recently published the second issue of its biannual magazine EMPOWERS Insight. The 24-page issue contains a variety of subjects related to integrated water resources management and participatory approaches to local water governance. This issue is a combination of articles, case studies and news that are aimed at creating awareness of the necessity, role and impact of right-based approaches to water management.

This issue is now available online below. You can download it either as a complete version or individual pages for a faster download. In few cases where a study or topic occupies more than a page, it is combined in one file.

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