The Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Fisheries (MARHP), through the Directorate General for Water Resources (DGRE), has led a process to develop an Action Plan (PAGIRE) to strengthen its Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) from June 2022 to March 2023. This process was facilitatedby the Global Water Partnership for the Mediterranean (GWP-Med), through the SDG 6 IWRM Support Programme. A Task Force was set up to steer the development of the Action Plan, guide the consultation process and examine and comment on the outline of the Action Plan before it was presented to the stakeholders for discussion and validation. The consultation process brought together 85 representatives of the various ministerial departments and structures involved in water resource management within the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Equipment and TerritorialPlanning, at both central and regional level, the National Institute of Meteorology, the National Centre for Cartography and Remote Sensing, professional and civil society organisations, representatives from academia and independent experts. The result is an IWRM Action Plan (PAGIRE) consisting of 13 actions to strengthen IWRM implementation, providinga framework for advancing coherence and synergy in government action on water resources management. The following action is part of the PAGIRE.
This action aims at developing a monitoring and evaluation system with gender-specific indicators for water-related policies. It includes the setting up of an inter-ministerial committee to oversee the implementation of the activities, which focus on: drafting relevant studies to take stock of existing policies and policy evaluation framework related to water to identify gaps and explore the possibility of developing gender-specific indicators for monitoring and evaluating water-related policies. This will be followed by the definition of a process to be adopted for evaluating public policies, and developing and operationalising the M&E system. In addition, relevant teams will also be capacitated on the gender-focused M&E system. Resulting evaluation reports on public water policies would be presented to the National Council for Water, that is being discussed to become a Superior Council for Water under the presidency of the Prime Minister.
