Projects

Eastern Eurpoe & South Caucasus

Country	Project/TA	Executing Agency	Brief Description
Armenia	On-line Hydrological and Water Quality Data Sharing	USAID	Designed and conducted a course to strengthen the professional capabilities of the technical staff of the Environmental Impact Monitoring Center, Armenian State Hydro-meteorological and Monitoring Service, and Water Resources Management Agency in hydrological and water quality data/information collection, communication, and on-line sharing with other water resource stakeholders.
Armenia	Program for Institutional and Regulatory Strengthening of Water Management	Ministry of Nature Protection and USAID	Providing short-term technical assistance to: (1) finalize and implement the proposed generic coding system for water resources in Armenia, (2) develop the required spatial data layers for water management, including spatial and tabular database integration, (3) recommend the necessary hardware and software for implementation of the GIS activities, (4) design, construct, and implement the State Water Cadastre, and (5) assist in drafting a Cooperative Agreement among all stakeholder organizations on the agreed design for the State Water Cadastre.
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia	Study Tour to Sevier River Basin in Utah	USAID	Conducted a 14-day training program in Utah for 12 Hydromet officials from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The goal of the program was to show the participants the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the State of Utah, and non-profit private organization activities in water resources data acquisition, management, communication, and sharing with other agencies in Utah and in the Sevier River Basin.
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia	South Caucasus Water Program	USAID	Advised and assisted the three governments to: (1) design water user permit databases, (2) develop state water cadastre information systems, (3) update the national hyrdromet websites, and (4) build a web-based regional information management system to share water resources data on-line.
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia	Water Management in the South Caucasus	USAID	Reviewed the national hydromet data management and exchange activities of all three countries. Provided recommendations for better utilization of the national water quantity and quality databases. Made suggestions for development of a sustainable data exchange program in the region (www.meteo.am, www.hydromet.ge, and www.azhydromet.com)
Georgia	Irrigation and Drainage Community Development	Ministry of Agriculture and Food and World Bank	Assisted IDCD PIU to prepare long-term training programs for Amelioration Associations, local trainers, and consultants.
Romania	WUA Development Project	Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry and USAID	Reviewed legal and institutional issues related to the formation of WUAs. Developed a plan for making necessary improvements to the existing regulatory framework, such as identifying areas requiring revision and improvement. Reviewed and tested a questionnaire for collecting baseline data from the irrigation WUAs. Identified project performance indicators and targets. Developed a WUA information system for tracking and evaluating water user association development, a plan for monitoring and evaluating project performance, and a Website to share WUA data/information via the Internet. Assessed the feasibility and cost of adding a GIS component to the WUA Information System. Mapped Tecuci and Gorjdibodu WUAs with the project Garmin GPS unit. Built WUA service area maps based on GPS waypoints, Landsat TM images for the areas, and AutoCAD drawings of the irrigation systems. Published dynamic WUA maps under the project website. Approximately 600,000 hectares of irrigated land were managed by WUAs by the end of the project.
Turkey	Watershed Monitoring and Evaluation Training	Ministry of Forestry and World Bank	Conducted training in watershed M&E for government officials from Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project.