📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: Various sponsors
Land: Albania Funding amount: €7,500,000.00 Start: October 1st, 2023 End: September 30, 2028
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
The project specifically aims to increase Albania’s approximation with the EU water acquis. The overall objective of the project is to enhance the implementation of the National Water Reform and the progress of Albania towards meeting EU water legislation requirements – resulting in increased capacities for managing the sector in line with EU policies.
expected results
• Output 1: The overarching Integrated Water Management (IWM) legal and institutional framework is substantially enhanced in line with the requirements of the EU acquis (Water Framework Directive [WFD and other water related directives).
• Output 2: The Implementation of River Basin Management (RBM) is increased in all river basins in line with the requirements of the WFD.
• Output 3: Water monitoring, reporting and enforcement are sustainably enhanced in line with the requirements of water related EU Directives.
target group
The principal project partner is the Agency for Water Resources Management (AMBU), which is the key authority to coordinate work with line ministries involved in the integration processes within the EU regulatory framework (transposition, implementation, and enforcement of environmental legislation), being responsible for the implementation of at least ten water related Directives. Other water-monitoring institutions like the National Environmental Agency, Institute of GeoScience or the Institute of Public Health will also directly benefit from the project. Approx. 250 persons working there are direct beneficiaries. A set of specific trainings and services for water laboratories & monitoring will be implemented by the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences of Vienna (BOKU).
Indirect beneficiaries are the Albanian citizens, who – in the long run – will benefit through improved health and living conditions, increased resilience and provision of ecosystem services, and improved job opportunities as a result of an improved business environment.
Measures
The planned activities will involve technical assistance to develop policy and strategic documents relevant for water resource management & protection in Albania, mechanisms for such policy implementation, provide continuous on-the-job training, and support for the endorsement of draft by-laws and legal documents, updated draft strategies, draft River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) etc. The planned activities are very much interconnected and often built on each other.
The activities will strengthen the development and application of RBMPs across the whole country aligned with the requirements of the WFD, to achieve a more integrated, inclusive, practical and results-oriented programme of measures to fulfill good ecological status conditions of all water resources.
background information
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