New USAID initiative for water governance in the MENA region

The International Resources Group and partners (IRG, Oregon State University, IWMI) have just been awarded a USAID contract for water resources governance in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) Region. The project called "Regional Water Governance Benchmarking" (ReWaG) was launched in September 2008 to run for 18 months and is funded by the USAID Office of Middle East Programs (USAID/OMEP) at a level of $1.5 million. Implementing partners working with IRG include the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University (OSU), Computer Assisted Development Incorporated (CADI), Nile Consultants of Egypt and ECO Consult of Jordan.