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Information Sharing, Cooperation, & Coordination - Illustrative Capabilities of the ME&A Team

The main purpose of the Pan European Transportation Corridor VIII project is to connect localities and their private sector stakeholders to the process of developing the corridor. Through these means, localities will have a voice in development plans and be able to take advantage of economic and business development potentials while at the same time protecting themselves from negative environmental impacts. The tools used to accomplish this are local economic development strategic planning and coalition building for effective advocacy. ME&A is working directly with network members to build communications (including a web site), and provide training and technical assistance in LED strategic planning. The current grant program includes a survey of LED plans to be used for economic development coordination purposes. These same techniques can be employed in assisting localities and stakeholders in water resource, coastal resource and environmental planning, and advocacy under IWRM.

In addition, ME&A has been prime contractor on a number of complex USAID projects and in some cases delivered services under very difficult circumstances. Examples include the Food for Peace Institutional Support Contract, a decade long effort that supported a $850 million grant portfolio; the Egypt University Linkages (ULP II) project that created and administered an $18 million program supported 80 grants for 810 researchers representing 58 Egyptian and U.S. education institutions; the Poland Manufacturing Technology Transfer Program that implemented a $4.3 million project creating four regional Technology Transfer Centers, while managing seven subcontractors in its implementation: and the Kharkiv Partnership project, a regional and local economic development activity that was successfully implemented in a difficult political environment and required major mid-course corrections. Finally, ME&A, as a major subcontractor on a State Department grant, was responsible for and successfully established an on-site project office and program in Iraq in support of the Kurdish health delivery system, which was accomplished without break immediately before and during the recent war in Iraq . Most of these examples are outlined in more detail in subsection 2.1.

This experience in managing complex international projects, primarily for USAID, together with the management systems ME&A has successfully employed in doing so, will serve to provide efficient and effective contractual services under the IWRCM IQC.

DevTech recently provided gender training to Conservation International, USAID's implementing partner in the Population and Environment program. Population growth causes increased pressures on natural habitats and the carrying capacity of environmental goods such as water, fish supply, and natural wastewater treatment, which impact food security and health. Country programs represented included the Philippines where coastal water management and fishery management rank as high priorities in country activities. As a result, community-based approaches must respond to specific roles that men and women play in water resource usage.

CENN, as a grass-roots organization, focuses its approaches directly on those who are using the resources and would benefit most from interventions to better manage them. To gain an understanding of the issues, CENN initially reconnoitered areas within the three countries, organized stakeholder meetings to gain a more in-depth understanding of these issues, and began to build local capability to identify and manage them. CENN then implemented its region-wide public environmental awareness raising campaigns through collection of information from the very grassroots level of stakeholders, informing the local society about the issues, and mobilizing the community around the water concerns. Their advocacy work in this case included an information hotline, a book identifying concerns, free Internet service, an environmental library, and public service announcements on radio and television. They used rapid rural assessment, worked with the local people to institute voluntary public river monitoring for water quality, produced a local and regional newsletter, and organized regional roundtables in mobilizing the communities. As a key part of this activity, CENN established Public Environmental Information Centers, which are repositories of all local water resource information and act as a local gathering place to discuss these issues.