Economic development and population growth paired with poor investment in competencies, legal frameworks and infrastructure of the water sector have led to considerable overexploitation of water resources, resulting in loss of vast areas of land suitable for irrigation and drinking water supply shortages. This puts social and economic development gains of the last decades at risk. Insufficiently developed competencies of the sectoral water institutions. GIZ is the main actor in the field of integrated water resource management in rural areas, contributing to the implementation of the overarching national water strategy.

To improve the competencies of the water sector institutions with the aim of an integrated and sustainable water resource management, focusing on rural Morocco.

Direct beneficiaries:

• Ministère de l’Energie, des Mines, de l’Eau et de l’Environnement (MEMEE), in particulier la Direction de la Recherche et de la Planification de l’Eau (DRPE) and its employees;
• Agences de bassins hydrauliques (ABH) and its employees;
• Beneficiaries of pilot projects.

• 11 mio. water users living in the watersheds of intervention (Tensift, Souss-Massa, Oum Er-Rbia) and surrounding areas.

1. Appui à la modernisation du Ministère de l’Energie, des Mines, de l’Eau et de l’Environnement (MEMEE) et des Agences de bassins hydrauliques (ABH).
2. Meilleure préservation des eaux souterraines.
3. Meilleure gestion des eaux pluviales.
4. Valorisation des eaux usées.

Principaux résultats antérieurs:  

Phase 1 01.12.2012 - 31.03.2014   (Completed)