Scoping Advice for the Dutch IWRM Support Programme Rwanda

main water-related actors, an overview of dominant water related issues and an overview ofimplementation steps.- A WRM Strategy and a WRM Five-year Plan describing the funding needs for theimplementation of the Strategy, were being finalised during NCEA’s mission. The GoR hassecured funding from its own means for approximately 50% of the necessary budget for a 5year period, showing its commitment to implement IWRM in Rwanda. Staffing of the WaterDepartment is gradually being increased.1. The NCEA concludes that Rwanda has made swift and consistent steps in the development of anIWRM policy framework at national level, following internationally acknowledged principles ofIWRM, showing commitment to the process by allocating significant staff and budgetary means tothe process.Aside from this progress in the development of the policy and institutional framework for IWRM,Rwanda has started making IWRM operational:- The strategy is at present being translated into a comprehensive National Water ResourcesMaster Plan, to be finalised before October 2013. The Master Plan process fully integrates andoperationalises the principles of IWRM 10 . The Master Plan is developed by an international andlocal team of consultants (SHER) 11 . See also 2.3.- The same consultant is developing a Management Information System (MIS) for waterresources management.- The Rwanda Integrated Water Security Program (RIWSP), supported by USAID, has recentlydeveloped a capacity needs assessment 12 , as well as a staffing plan 13 for the waterdepartment. These two documents provide great detail and illustrate which relevantknowledge and know-how is present in each governmental organisation involved in waterrelated issues. The staffing plan shows how the RWRD will develop. At present the departmenthas about 18 employees and 3 directors will be selected soon.- Several programmes and projects have initiated activities in local catchments, which contain(elements of) IWRM principles. These programmes however do not fully cover the country, donot always seem to be coordinated from an IWRM perspective, or have only just recentlystarted. These include national projects, such as the Land and Water Husbandry (LWH) project,supported by the World Bank, RIWSP, and regional programmes, such as, among others, theKagera River Transboundary Integrated Resources Management and Development (KR-TIRWM&D) and the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project Phase (II) (LVEMP-II).10 Consultancy services for development of Rwanda national water resources master plan (Progress report -1), SHER Ingénieurs-Conseils s.a., October 201211 Terms of Reference for the development of the National Water Resources Master Plan (NWRMP), RWRD, 201112 Capacity Situation Analysis and Capacity Development Needs Assessment of Integrated Water Resources Management Sub-Sector in Rwanda (draft final report), RIWSP/Centre for Resources Analysis Limited, April 201213 Organisational Review and Five-Year Staffing Plan for the Integrated Water Resources Management Department of the RwandaNatural Resources Authority, RIWSP/Centre for Resources Analysis Limited, October 20127