Discussion on updating ICRC's project plans in water, environment sectors


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Discussion on updating ICRC's project plans in water, environment sectors
[28/ September/2022]

SANA'A, Sep. 28 (Saba) - A meeting in Sana 'a was discussed Wednesday under the chairmanship of Deputy Minister of Water and Environment Hanin al-Duraib aspects related to the completion of ICRC's project plans and interventions in Yemen in the water and environment sector.

The meeting, which included ICG's Water and Housing Coordinator, touched on Antonella Viola and President of the General Authority for Rural Water Projects Adel Bader on ways to activate the role of the Red Cross in the implementation of water and environmental sanitation projects and their emergency and sustainable interventions.

At the meeting, the Deputy Minister of Water noted that ICRC had been a humanitarian organization in Yemen for 60 years.

He stressed the need to strengthen the Commission's interventions, especially as organizations had begun to work in Yemen after the aggression with larger projects and interventions, he also stressed the readiness to facilitate the Commission's task of implementing water and sanitation projects in various governorates.

For its part, Viola appreciated the cooperation of the leadership of the Ministry of Water and Environment in the Commission's implementation of emergency and sustainable projects and interventions.

In turn, Bader reviewed a list of rural areas' needs for projects exceeding $177 million. He stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation with the Committee of the Red Cross to implement rural water projects, thereby alleviating citizens' suffering.

For his part, the Director of Implementation of the Urban Cities Project Mohammed Al-Maqdami explained that urban cities' needs for projects exceed $200 million.

The meeting stressed the need for the Ministry of Water's bodies and units to accredit local implementing partners to ensure that the Red Cross's implementation capacities for its projects and activities are upgraded and that the necessary funding is absorbed in the water and environmental sectors.

The meeting endorsed the transition to sustainable projects that contribute to assisting local water and sanitation institutions on self-reliance in operation and maintenance, upgrading of projects and interventions in the water and environmental sanitation sector most in need.

He urged that the scale of the ICRC's interventions should be commensurate with the size of the need for rural and urban areas.
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