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The News N° 25
FRom one conTinenT To anoTHeR
Pursuant to the decision of
5 September 2011 of the
Ministry of Regional Plan-
ning and Environment,
the
Algerian National Observatory of Envi-
ronment and Sustainable Development
(ONEDD)
has to develop with its partners
some indicators on sustainable development.
To fulfill this mission,
”ONEDD” is imple-
menting an Environmental Information
System (EIS).
This fundamental work aims to increase envi-
ronmental knowledge inAlgeria.
The expected results of the twinning project
funded by the
EuropeanUnion
are:
l
Capacity building of
”ONEDD”
in the
processing and interpretation of geogra-
phic and environmental data;
l
Establishment of an operational EIS;
l
Training of
”ONEDD”
engineers and
technicians on the operation of the EIS;
l
Increase of the sharing of environmental
information and its access for the civil
society.
Thisproject, ledby the FrenchMinistryof Eco-
logy, Sustainable Development and Energy
(MEDDE), was initiated in September 2014
and is supported by fifteen French and Aus-
trian experts collaboratingwith their Algerian
colleagues. This corresponds to 280 days of
expertise and training in Algeria and two
study tours in France and Austria over a
period of 18months.
Substantive action on data manage-
ment is conductedby IOWater.
It involves the development of a catalogue of
data sources of the Environmental Informa-
tion System, the establishment of new
exchange systems and the harmonization of
data production formats between the invol-
ved parties.
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Algeria - ONEDD
Environmental Information System
Middle East
Training sessions
for Degrémont
As part of the capacity building of its staff
based in Dubai and Jordan,
Degrémont
entrusted in 2014 IOWater’s National
Water Training Center (NWTC), with
the realization of training sessions in
Amman and Dubai
on techniques for
drinkingwater production and treatment of
wastewater of Degrémont group.
These training sessions followed a training
course conducted earlier inDoha, Qatar.
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Palestine
PalestinianWater Authority (PWA)
Under the decentralized
cooperation activities of
the
Adour-Garonne Water Agency
and pro-
jects of the FrenchNGO,
HAMAP, IOWater’s
National Water Training Center (NWTC)
achieved in 2013 and plans to conduct, trai-
ning courses in Palestine and Limoges for the
capacity building of the Palestinian Water
Authority (PWA) andPalestinianmunicipalities
on the themes of selection, sizing and opera-
tion of urbanwastewater treatment plants.
Training sessions are scheduled in 2015 to be
performed in Limoges and Ramallah on the
assessment of treatment units.
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Visit of Ramallah
wastewater treatment plant
Sultanate of Oman
Training for PAEW
The Suez Environment Group entrusted
IOWater with the realization inOman of
12 training courses,
between November
2013 and February 2014, for technicians and
engineers of
the Public Authority for Elec-
tricity andWater (PAEW),
on the topic of
drinkingwater supply.
IOWater
conceived the educational docu-
ments used tomeet local conditions. Training
Kits were developed in English, and
the
courseswere conducted inArabicand/or
English.
About a hundred PAEW employees, from the
Water Departments from all governorates of
the Sultanate of Oman, benefited from this
very technical training program.
On successful completion of this training pro-
gram,
it is planned that IOWater will
helpSuez Environment-PAEW toachieve
a second trainingplan in2015.
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