Project Objectives

TERMS OF REFERENCE

General objectives towards which the project will contribute are to:

• Establish an improved basis for continued development of adequate water points for the rural area in Faryab Province

• Retain current implementation capacity to supplement that of the NGOs and the private sector

• Build capacity at the provincial level to take up and accelerate the role of monitoring and evaluation.

• Encourage NGOs, private companies and other agencies to continue their water (and sanitation) development efforts within the National Policy Framework.

• Develop an effective coordination mechanism at the national and provincial levels for the sector.

Specific objectives of the project:

• Enhance the capacity of MRRD RuWatSip Dept staff and the PRRD staff in conducting investigations and surveys of underground water through HGS. In this regard Faryab will serve as a pilot province.

• Find out better and sustainable solutions for water supply sources taking into account the information obtained from hydrogeology investigations. In this regard Faryab will serve as a pilot province.

• Improve the capacity of MRRD and PRRD technical staff in conducting water quality testing, drilling technologies, and working with the existing management information system (MIS), etc.

• Develop methodological knowledge of hydro-geological  investigations of groundwater sources in Faryab to be used as pilot entry point to other provinces.

• Enable MRRD and PRRD staff

• To plan and conduct studies of groundwater in consultation with MoM.

• To improve their technical knowledge and expertise in water supply designs, survey, MIS, GIS, water quality, water treatment and ethical project management.

• To address the problem of saline water in the Faryab Province.

• To make better plans for increasing the access to safe drinking water in Faryab.

• Prepare adequate information on groundwater sources in Faryab so that strategic water points for drinking purposes can be constructed in the future.

• To undertake conceptual/preliminary design of up to three water supply projects preferably in saline areas.

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