📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2017.4051.3
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
3300 Middle East 1
Contact person:
Nayef Hammad nayef.hammad@giz.de
Partner countries:
Jordan
SUMMARY
Goals:
Jordan’s scarce water is being managed more efficiently and sustainably to ensure the country’s future water supply.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Jordan Valley Authority
Financier: not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
76 170 000 euros
Current project:
76 170 000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
16.03.2017 - 31.03.2027
Current project:
16.03.2017 - 31.03.2027
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Adaptation to climate change
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
14015 Conservation of water resources, including data collection
EVALUATION not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
Jordan is one of the most water-poor countries in the world. Population and economic growth as well as a high number of refugees are increasing the pressure on water resources. In addition, there is high unemployment in communities that have taken in many refugees.
At the same time, river banks are eroding and the dams King Talal Dam, Mujib Dam, Wala Dam, Zeglab Dam, Kofranja Dam, Wadi Arab Dam, Karak Dam, Zarqa Ma'een Dam and Alwehedi Dam are silting up. Sand and other sediments are accumulating in the reservoirs, which means they can store less water. In the long term, silting up is a threat to the water supply for agriculture.
Objective
Employment-intensive measures maintain the storage capacity of the reservoirs and reduce erosion in the dams' catchment area. The short-term employment opportunities improve living conditions in the host communities.
Approach
The project is part of the special initiative "Reducing the causes of flight, stabilizing host regions, supporting refugees" of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It creates temporary employment opportunities ("cash for work") for needy Jordanian families and Syrian refugees. It works in three fields of action:
1. The project carries out protective measures against soil erosion. These include reforestation and the construction of retention dams as well as terraces, gabion walls, riprap and dry stone walls in the catchment area of ??the dams.
2. The employees preserve cultural and historical sites and renovate relevant ancient water infrastructure.
3. The project creates a project support unit in the Jordanian Ministry of Labor to ensure
