In implementation of the decision of the Council of Arab Ministers regarding environment and sustainable development indicators in the Arab region, and based on the recommendations of the activities of the first meeting of the Arab Group concerned with environment and sustainable development indicators, the Arab Ministerial Water Council decided to form a committee whose membership includes many parties to clarify a new formulation of the Millennium Development Goals to suit the circumstances. And the reality of our Arab nation. The Arab Network for Environment and Development “Raed” was honored to be a member of this committee along with the Economic and Social Committee for Western Asia “ESCWA”, the Environment and Development Center for the Arab Region and Europe “CEDARI”, the World Health Organization, the Arab Water Council, and the Arab Water Utilities Association “ACWA”, who work Together to prepare a unified model for indicators and standards for implementing the Millennium Goals with regard to water supply and sanitation, with the aim of reaching an integrated Arab vision on this issue.

As part of its membership in this committee, “Raed” applied and implemented the questionnaire prepared by “ESCWA” on local Arab communities in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Republic of Tunisia as a preliminary stage in three villages in Egypt and five villages in Tunisia.

Then 4 Arab countries were chosen to implement the first phase of the questionnaire: Sudan, Palestine, Mauritania and Yemen, in some villages that suffer from problems with drinking water and sanitation.

“Raed” continues to implement the second phase of the project in Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, and this questionnaire is implemented by civil society organizations that are members of “Raed” in these countries.

Overall goal

Completing the official data collected by national monitoring teams in some Arab countries to calculate indicators on achieving the additional Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by collecting data at the local level on water supply and sanitation indicators from some selected regions in the specific Arab countries.

Brief description of the project

Preparing a unified model for indicators and standards for implementing the Millennium Goals with regard to water supply and sanitation. This is done through a group of research through which data is collected at the local level in some of the regions that were selected from the Arab countries in which the project is to be implemented. This is in the context of the urgent need to amend the Millennium Indicators from an Arab point of view that takes into account the vision of Arab local communities, especially since these communities are fully aware of the real dimensions of water and environmental sanitation issues as a priority reflected in the lack of water supplies, which leads to deterioration of environmental, health and living conditions, especially since the indicators The current data does not reflect the actual reality of the quality and continuity of services.

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Implementation site

Preliminary stage: Arab Republic of Egypt – Republic of Tunisia

The first stage: the Republic of Sudan – the State of Palestine – the Islamic Republic of Mauritania – the Republic of Yemen

The second stage: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – the Syrian Arab Republic – the Republic of Iraq – the Lebanese Republic

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Partners

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia UN-ESCWA, Arab Water Utilities Association ACWA, Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe CEDARE, World Health Organization WHO, Arab Water Council AWC

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Donor

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia UN-ESCWA.

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Duration of the project

The project began in 2014 and ended in 2016

Project results

A report was prepared on the final results reached and presented to the partners and to the Arab Ministerial Water Council of the League of Arab States, and the results were incorporated into the second report that was issued.