Regional Water Demand Initiative

WaDImena, the Regional Water Demand Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa is a multi-funded water demand management initiative coordinated by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Middle East/North Africa (MENA) office in Cairo, Egypt.

WaDImena will contribute to effective water governance in the countries of the MENA region by promoting tools, approaches and strategies to enhance water-use efficiency, euqity and sutainability through:

- Improvements in the research and knowledge base on WDM and its associated challenges, opportunities and incentives for the practical application in specific contexts, with particular focus on women and the rural poor.
- Enhanced skills development and strengthening of individual and institutional capacities to positively affect WDM implementation (see Regional Exchange Facility and Capacity Development)
- Creation of a viable network to share experiences, foster dialogue and promote partnerships among key actors.
- Strengthened relationships and collaborative arrangements with national, regional and international water governance programmes to motivate the WDM agenda.

Project number	n/a
Subject(s)	POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , WATER DEMAND
Acronym	WaDImena
Geographical coverage	Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
Budget (in €)	n/a
Programme	International program
Web site	http://www.idrc.ca/wadimena
Objectives	WaDImena aims to facilitate the adoption and implementation of water demand management strategies and tools in the countries of the MENA region: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, and to translate awareness into action for tangible impacts.
Period	[01/01/2004 - 31/12/2009]

Partners

International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa.

IDRC has worked in close collaboration with the Middle East and North Africa since 1971. Three years later the Centre established a permanent presence in the area with the opening of a regional office in Beirut, Lebanon. Relocated to Cairo, Egypt in 1976, this office is the focus of activities in 10 countries and territories extending from Turkey to Morocco. In the past 30 years IDRC has supported more than 550 research projects directed and managed by researchers and institutions in the region. A series of Country Profiles provides an overview of IDRC's work in the region by country and includes project highlights.

Based on IDRC's Corporate Strategy and Program Framework (CSPF 2005-2010), four broad Program Areas will be supported in the region, namely: Environment and Natural Resource Management (ENRM); Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D); Innovation, Policy and Science; and Social and Economic Policy (SEP).

Coordinator	acts as project coordinator
Type
Country	Egypt
Web site	http://www.idrc.ca/wadimena/ev-8557-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Contact	Ms. Lorra Thompson, Position: WaDImena Project Coordinator Phone/fax: +202 336-7051/2, +202 336-7056 Email: LThompson@idrc.org.eg

Rural Poverty and Environment (RPE) Program Initiative

On April 1st, 2005 IDRC launched the Rural Poverty and Environment (RPE) program initiative. RPE supports research focusing on the needs of the rural poor who live in fragile or degraded ecosystems. The program initiative uses an approach that combines participatory action research to generate knowledge; capacity development for researchers and decision makers to participate in multi-stakeholder processes; and policy engagement to build action and learning oriented partnerships.

Country	Uruguay
Web site	http://www.idrc.ca/wadimena/ev-58566-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Contact	Ms. Helen Raij, Position: Phone/fax: , Email: http://www.idrc.ca/pda/en/ev-71546-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html?toID=4224

Urban Poverty and Environment (UPE)

The Urban Poverty & Environment Program (UPE) funds research and activities in developing countries that apply integrated and participatory approaches to reducing environmental burdens on the urban poor and enhancing the use of natural resources for food, water and income security.

Type
Country	Canada
Web site	http://www.idrc.ca/wadimena/ev-5911-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Contact	Mr. Naser Faruqui, Position: UPE Team Leader Phone/fax: +613 236-6163 ext.2309, +613 567-7749 Email: nfaruqui@idrc.ca ; upe@idrc.ca

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is Canada’s lead agency for development assistance. It has a mandate to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.

Type
Country	Canada
Web site	http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/index.htm
Contact	, Position: Phone/fax: 819-997-5006 + Toll free: 1-800-230-6349, 819-953-6088 Email: info@acdi-cida.gc.ca

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. The Conference was organized in response to the food crises of the early 1970s that primarily affected the Sahelian countries of Africa. The conference resolved that "an International Fund for Agricultural Development should be established immediately to finance agricultural development projects primarily for food production in the developing countries". One of the most important insights emerging from the conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production, but structural problems relating to poverty and to the fact that the majority of the developing world’s poor populations were concentrated in rural areas.

Type
Country	Italy
Web site	http://www.ifad.org/
Contact	, Position: Phone/fax: +39-0654591, +39-065043463 Email: ifad@ifad.org

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