Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector - Operational level<b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">The National Focal Points</b><br />
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National Focal Points (NFPs) are small teams working in a public
organisation responsible for water-related documentation and information.
Their tasks consist in creating and developing a national information
server; organising communication processes and access to vetted information;
ensuring information availability in the working languages; developing
access to the information and maintaining relations with the users in their
country. To date, 20 of the 37 partner countries have created a NFP, and 16
of them have launched their own website.<br />
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<b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">The Technical Unit</b><br />
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<p>The Technical Unit is a permanent body managed and financed by a
group of water operators acting on behalf of their governments: CEDEX
(Spain), Office International de l’Eau (France) and SOGESID
(Italy). <font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Its major
roles are to:</font></p>
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<li><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">coordinate
and provide assistance and recommendations to the National Focal
Points</font></li>
<li><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">support the
activities of the Steering and Coordination Committees</font></li>
<li><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">act</font> as the
International Focal Point. In this role, it is responsible for collecting
data on institutions, for documentation, training, research and development
and data management at international level (<font
style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">relevant for</font> the
Euro-Mediterranean region). It manages the EMWIS information portal,
acting as a single access point for inland water in the Euro-Mediterranean
region, and providing access to international information and NFP
websites. It also works towards reaching agreements with
international initiatives and projects.</li>
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