Climate Risk Management in Finnish Development Cooperation - Gaia

4.4 Technical Assistance to the Watershed Monitoring and
Evaluation (WME) Component of the Tana Beles Integrated Water
Resources Development Project (TBIWRDP)
The overall development objective of the WME project is “improved watershed and natural resource
management, leading to improved and sustainable livelihoods in the Ribb, Gumera and Jema subwatersheds”.
Hereby the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system that will be established should
demonstrate the benefits of watershed conservation and management practices and facilitate the
utilization of information produced for the benefit of all stakeholders.
The project, which is entering implementation phase in July/August 2009, has identified 6 results
(see Climate risks for project outcomes, below) that can be achieved through two main activities, i.e.
i) development of a modern reliable MIS (Management Information System) and M&E, including
data collection and database design into a system which will enable horizontal and vertical
communication, and ii) improving management, planning and decision making based upon the use
of M&E through capacity building and encouraging the use of timely and reliable data to raise
awareness of its benefits and thereby increase ownership.
The WME project, which is a component of the Tana Beles Integrated Water Resources
Development Project (see figure 12 below) has a very strong focus on organisational development,
capacity building, training, and awareness and could serve as a basis for improved monitoring and
evaluation services on regional and national level in Ethiopia.
Figure 12. WME project area. The overall objective of TBIWRDP is to develop enabling institutions and
investments for integrated planning, management and development in the Tana and Beles Sub-basins to
accelerate sustainable growth. Component B1 is one of the seven sub-components of TBIWRDP has been
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