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To this effect, the proposed programme will boost the capacity of the MoWE and the Basin Offices in areas of gender-sensitive and inclusive human resources development, logistics, office set up and sector coordination."}, {"bbox": [97, 469, 1128, 524], "category": "Text", "text": "Contributing to Specific Objective 2, a comprehensive hydrologic basin water information system in the selected basins is in-place and functional."}, {"bbox": [97, 549, 1066, 577], "category": "Text", "text": "2.1. Improved access to an accurate information on the water resource availability, variability, and quality"}, {"bbox": [97, 578, 976, 604], "category": "Text", "text": "2.2. Improved watershed and land planning capacities of MoWE, BCO, DBOs and communities"}, {"bbox": [97, 604, 835, 631], "category": "Text", "text": "2.3. Improved resilience capacity of economic actors depending on water energy"}, {"bbox": [97, 655, 1162, 869], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to ensure effective, efficient and sustainable water resources development and management, accurate information on the resource availability, variability, and quality is required. This includes information on climate, hydrology, water resource use, watershed, socio-economic activity in the basin or sub-basins and their impact in term of pollution. In particular, sources, quantities and impacts of generated solid and liquid wastes will be thoroughly analysed in relation of depletion of water resources and biodiversity. Collection of information will integrate the gender and human rights perspective to account for specific barriers and opportunities of women, pastoralists communities and other vulnerable groups. All information at a basin level will be centrally archived through a data sharing protocol."}, {"bbox": [97, 894, 751, 922], "category": "Text", "text": "Contributing to Specific Objective 3, enhancing local DRM institutions"}, {"bbox": [97, 946, 1128, 1001], "category": "Text", "text": "3.1. Improved capacities of regional and Woreda administration disaster risk management (DRM) institutions in efficient early warning systems (EWS) and management enhanced."}, {"bbox": [97, 1001, 698, 1028], "category": "Text", "text": "3.2. Restored and disaster-prepared livelihoods and communities"}, {"bbox": [97, 1053, 1162, 1188], "category": "Text", "text": "The capacities of communities, regional and local (Woreda) administrations will be strengthened to improve inclusive DRM. Livelihoods and living conditions of disaster-affected communities are restored, and are better prepared to withstand future disasters, especially through adoption of appropriate water conservation and management techniques at the farm level. Specific needs of women and girls, displaced populations and pastoralist communities as a disproportionally affected part of the population are being addressed."}, {"bbox": [85, 1234, 367, 1261], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.2 Indicative Activities"}, {"bbox": [97, 1279, 593, 1307], "category": "Text", "text": "**Activities related to Outputs under the Outcome 1:**"}, {"bbox": [130, 1308, 1162, 1415], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Build the IWRM implementation capacity of MoWE, BCO and the Decentralised Basin Offices through formal long-term and short term trainings, on job skill development trainings, and exchange visits mainly focusing on coordination, stakeholders' engagement, water allocation, pollution, calculation of water tariff, conflict management, planning, modelling etc.;"}, {"bbox": [130, 1415, 992, 1442], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Provide technical assistance to MoWE and the target basin offices on the following areas:"}, {"bbox": [167, 1443, 1162, 1496], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Water governance: IWRM institutional set up and coordination; and establishment of water governance in selected Basins (mainly focusing on water allocation, water use permit and Water tariff)."}, {"bbox": [167, 1496, 1162, 1575], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Water economics: analyse the economic viability of the basin plans (mainly focusing land and water resources), develop improvement plans and strategies and provide the necessary technical support for their implementation."}, {"bbox": [167, 1575, 1162, 1628], "category": "List-item", "text": "  * Business development support: provide technical support to the ongoing solar minigrid projects to rationalise the use of water and energy for productive use in the lowlands."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 27"}]