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<strong>Scoping</strong> Mission on Rwanda for Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kigali • Poverty and lack of fertile land has pushed poor Rwandans on marginal lands like steep hills and marshland. This has resulted in uncontrolled degradation of land and nature. • Poor sanitation, lack of urban and industrial waste water treatment, mining activities and intensive agriculture applying inorganic fertilisers and pesticides seriously pollute surface waters that are also being used as the source for drinking and industrial process water. • Substantial expansion of irrigated land and the presently consequently drainage of marshlands need innovative systems highly efficient in water use and hybrid approaches to ensure availability for water for ecosystems and maintain water buffer capacity of marshland. • Rwanda is at the verge of a new era of developments as reflected in Vision 2020 that aims to eradicate poverty and may bring Rwanda into the league of middle-income countries by 2020. This route will define put a pressure on water resources claimed for various uses. • New settlements, including the ‘imidugudus’, and new and expanding industries including service sector will demand high investment in water supply infrastructure. • Most cities and towns have outdated water supply infrastructure while rapid urbanisation and modernisation takes place. To control public health in these densely populated areas, city/town new or rehabilitated sewerage systems are to be constructed. Both urban water supply and sewerage are activities high on the development agenda of the GoR; huge infrastructural investments are required, in the order of several hundreds of million US Dollars. • WRM is a novice and learning sector in Rwanda, with many challenges despite the recent policy and strategic framework (both July 2011). Human resources are limited in number and capacities, both at the national (RNRA is being established) and decentralised level (district) where WRM is hardly known, understood and practised. Water catchment authorities for decentralised IWRM are still to be formed, resourced and capacitated. • Regarding rural water service provision, the private service providers in the PPP model for rural water service have insufficient capacities to adequately manage rural water services; the Contract providers/managers– the districts’ authorities – lack the capacities and experiences to do proper contract management and adequately govern water service provision. • Political leadership on integrated water resources management is low, the focus remains on infrastructure for domestic, industrial and mining water supply, agriculture and hydropower, where sustainability of resource quantity and quality is very much at risk. This calls for awareness creation on importance of IWRM among national and local politicians. Page 19
<strong>Scoping</strong> Mission on Rwanda for Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kigali 4 Rwandan demands for water resources and water development The demands and priorities are presented in a tabulated format and in order of priority to create a structured and easily accessible overview. The arguments and motivation for priority setting have been given in the earlier chapters and reflect the statements from the government officials met, often amplified by representatives from the DPs. Priorities in WRM Details Components (indicative) Institution building Capacity development Learning for Improved Performance and Sustainability WRM Master Plan Water Governance Evidence-based advocacy WRM institutions needed at catchment and sub-catchment New departments within MINIRENA, the new RNRA and the tobe-established water catchment offices need to develop relevant capacities among their new staff Life-long learning structures; national and decentralised multistakeholder learning to enhance coordination and harmonisation for improved performance and sustainability Development of key document based on policy and strategy, to guide planning and implementation Systems, structures and dissemination channels to govern water planning, allocations, practice at national and catchment levels Awareness and information system for non-directly involved government departments and politicians and the CSOs and general public Institutional and organisational development; Regular IWRM courses at degree and diploma level, also demand for PhD levels; short courses in specific knowledge and skills areas. Seminar, workshops, internet-based learning. Learning fora for dialogue among stakeholders Studies, overall overview stakeholders uses and demands, general planning, guideline development IWRM Systems, structures for monitoring and dialogue, and dissemination channels (linked to the WRM Monitoring) Series of information products on opportune IWRM issues to raise political and general public awareness and support Rwandan Institutions involved MINIRENA, RNRA, districts MINIRENA, RNRA, catchment authorities, districts; Rwandan universities and polytechnics, water training institutions MINIRENA, RNRA, catchment offices, districts; NGOs, other institutions directly involved in WRM at national and catchment level MINIRENA, RNRA, REMA; And other institutions directly and indirectly involved in WRM MINIRENA, RNRA, REMA; districts, water catchment offices, NGOs And other institutions directly and indirectly involved in WRM RNRA, REMA, CSOs, NGOs, marketing firms Potential Dutch partners Water Boards; Union of Water Boards; Cap. Building organizations; Government agencies Dutch Capacity Development institutions SNV, IRC, Water Boards; Union of Water Boards; Cap. Building organizations. Water Boards; Union of Water Boards; consulting firms Water Boards; Union of Water Boards; universities, IRC, consultants Union of Water Boards; NGOs Priorities in monitoring Monitoring Details Baseline on quantity, quality, present use and demands; regular monitoring for management, governance and Components (indicative) Monitoring system development; Monitoring processing and information presentation and use for defined purposes. Rwandan Institutions involved MINIRENA, RNRA and REMA; decentralised management bodies at district and water catchment level; MININFRA and EWSA; MINAGRI; NBI, Potential Dutch partners Water Boards; Union of Water Boards; Water Dienst; universities; Consultants; ICT companies Page 20
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