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• Continued distribution of MALR publications on High Value Crops (HVCs) and water conservation practices (WCT). The regional offices distributed the publications to the BCWUAs that attended the dissemination of information and orientation workshops. • Receipt and review of detailed summer cropping pattern information submitted by Abu Kebeer and West Belbeis IWMDs for the districts as a whole, and for the pilot branch canals. • Distribution of a newsletter on HVCs to the two Regional Offices for further distribution to the directorates and the districts. • Received an unsolicited request for a seminar on HVCs from El Maksar BCWUA. The seminar is scheduled to be conducted in October. • Continued training workshops for MWRI and MALR staffs in capacity building for high value crops (HVC) and water conservation practices and technologies.. Staff of MWRI and MALR in Damietta Directorate IWMDs (2 districts) and El Salam Directorate (4 districts) received training. The total number of trainees was 47 from the six IWMDs. Training was conducted also for the staff of the eight IWMDs of East Dakahlia, with, 47 trainees from all eight districts attending. Eng. Ibrahim El Gamasy, Undersecretary (US) Dakahlia, attended and discussed his experience and benefits of using the improved (drip) irrigation system He stated that productivity increased by 40 percent and saving on fertilizer use was more than 35 percent. • At the workshops for BCWUAs, dissemination of information on HVCs and WCTs continued. During this quarter, 102 BCWUAs from eight IWMDs of Damietta, El Salam and East Dakahlia received this training. The table below shows the districts, the number of BCWUAs, number of farmers and MWRI/MALR staff who received this training. • Conduct of a one day training event for BCWUAs, MWRI/WATs and MALR/Ag Extension staffs of Port Saied and Materia IWMDs, El Salam Directorate on 28 September. Eng. Zienab El Raies, US Damietta and Eng. Saad Mousa, GD El Salam Directorate attended and answered farmers’ questions. Ms. Naglaa M. Hassan, Director of Technical Support of the MUCIA Project attended as an observer. Eng. Wafaa, COTR and Eng. Fouad Elleithy, Program Office, USAID, also attended. • Attended a USAID hosted meeting involving IWRM II/IRG and MUCIA to discuss the possibility of collaboration and reduction of duplication. Eng. Wafaa and Dr. Abu El Wafa from USAID, Mr. Andy Tczap and Dr. Wadie from IRG and Dr. Mohamed Samy, COP MUCIA, participated. Number of BCWUAs and Farmers attending the HVCs/WCTs Training this Quarter No. of Directorate District Total No. of No. of farmers MWRI/MALR staff BCWUAs in BCWUAs persons attending this Qtr. the District attending attending this Qtr. MWRI MALR Damietta Damietta 13 11 14 3 3 Faraskour 14 11 19 4 3 ElSalam Port Saied 15 15 30 6 1 El Matariea 11 11 22 3 2 San El Hagar 20 20 28 3 3 8 Quarterly Report Year 3: 3 rd Quarter (July - September 2011)
W. El Kantara 10 10 14 5 3 E. Dakahlia E. Manzala 23 13 19 3 3 N. Mansoura 12 11 21 3 3 Total in this Quarter 118 102 167 30 21 Total to date 383 278 485 1.3 1.3.a TASK 1.4: WASTEWATER REUSE PMP Indicators and Targets Year 1 Task Indicator Units Baseline In compliance with a USAID mid-term evaluation recommendation and concurrence of MWRI, the project has ceased further activity under this task. TASK 2.1: REGIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS (RWMO) Year 2 Target Actual Target Actual Yr 3 Target Year 3 In compliance with a USAID mid-term evaluation recommendation and concurrence of MWRI, the project has ceased further activity under this task. TASK 2.2: FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS Actual Qtr 3 Improvements in Water Productivity and Efficiency Number of farmers receiving training on High-Value Crops and Number 0 100 0 300 502 500 987 water saving technology Eng. Nabil Fawzi and Eng. Maher Khodary, both LTTA Senior Water Resource Management Specialists, are the IRG coordinators for this Task. Eng. Ayman Shedid is providing technical support to the Zagazig Regional Office. Eng. Akmal Badie is doing the same for the Mansoura Regional Office. These two engineers are on LWOP from MWRI and two additional engineers MWRI engineers were identified by MWRI to be added to IRGs field staff to fully staff the two field offices. The two new engineers will start work with the project in October. Activities carried out during the report period include: • MWRI continued installing ADSL lines for internet access in IWMDs. A list of the 19 IWMDs lacking ADSL service was sent to the Project Coordinator for information and action. The continuation of this service requires payment of overdue telephone invoices and some of the districts do not have budget for this. • Directorate IT teams continued to make regular visits to their respective IWMDs to provide computer maintenance support. • Directorate Under Secretary monthly meetings were held (15 events) attended by MWRI and MALR staffs. Dr. Khaled Toubar (MWRI Project Coordinator) and Eng. Nabil Fawzi attended the East Sharkia, Salhia and Ismailia monthly meetings on 26 and 27 September. Quarterly Report Year 3: 3 rd Quarter (July - September 2011) 9
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