4th regional tarining course

Day Four Wednesday 19/10/2011 Session 1 The activities started at 08:45 with reflection on the field trip. Dr. Ghazi abu Rumman on behalf of the AlKhayouf Group carried the presentation starting with an overview on the region, current situation and the pilot activity planting the Jojoba tree and the expected benefits, passing to the main obstacles (No Electrical power) facing the local community in developing the area .

Al Rusaifa Case, 36 families living along the dry water course, are small farmers, poor and suffering of water scarcity and waste of industrial factories, beside neglect of official agencies, the Yeast factory representative and some farmers expressed the benefit of the factory waste as fertilizers, other farmers denied and claimed against.

Farmers required environmental standards to be applied on the factories, the inhabitants called for the ministry of Environment and Agriculture to work jointly to maintain balance of stakeholders needs in the area, the case was presented by Mr. Mustafa Elrawady – Egypt and Mr. Eyad Adel.

In continuation of Day 2, the groups starting the presentation of the stakeholder's analysis and Venn Diagram. Starting Jordan case, followed by the Palestinian, Iraq case, Nile Basin case ending with the Morocco case about the Al Sous Valley. The five groups spent some time in both the presentation and the discussion by the plenary.