The Middle East Water Data Banks Program and the Palestinian Water Authority Report from the EXACT III Meeting, Aqaba, Nov. 31 - Dec. 1 1995

Abstract

The Middle East Water Data Banks progamme and its Implementation Plan, consisting of 39 recommendations for multilateral action and one special programme, Work Package A, for capacity building on the Palestinian side, have several interfaces with the bilateral cooperation between PWA and Norway. Work Package A actions mainly relates to tbe Water Resources/Hydrological services part of the PWA. It considers capacity building within data collection and storage, field work and laboratory capability. This report, based on discussions at and around the third meeting of EXACT - the Executive Action Team of the Middle East Data Banks Plan, therefore focuses on identifying the interfaces and possible overlaps between these programs and the cooperation between PWA and Norway. It also seeks to give some recommendations on the work on establishing the water data unit and hydrological services of PWA, to the extent that is possible at tbe present stage of organization planning of the institution.