need to adopt a participative approach responsibilities of the River Basin administrative instructions in Law (Law No. 2004/24). (ensuring inclusion and District Authorities are clearly connection with the administration According to paragraph 19.4, the minorities’ gender mainstreaming) in their policing defined, understood and broadly of water resources procedures, composition and Kosovo’s activities, in accordance with accepted structure of the River Basin principles. District Authorities shall be “environmental justice” Activity and staffing schedules are determined by the MESP in a prepared, budgets increased and Subsidiary Act. However, this still physical assets maintained is pending. If the Project wants to New permits for water uses within achieve its full impact, it will be the Drini River basin are issued important to ensure that the following broadly accepted water issuing of respective allocation rules and procedures administrative instructions will be In 2 sub-basins of the Drini River given high priority on the part of Basin, the MESP. An inventory of water resources has been completed, mapped Water resource protections zones are identified and delineated River basin management guidelines are adopted by planners Result 1: Information system for Relevance check All available raw data and Information technology at Water integrated water resource information is transparent and Department is functional Consistency checks management. willingly shared amongst the Relevance, consistency, accuracy Data exchange protocols project partners. An integrated water resource data and and coherence of standardised Duplication survey results for information management system of the Project partners have access to data stored in a database are water quality parameters Drini Bardhë/Beli Drim River Basin is sufficient resources and capacity assured established, functional and tested, to fulfil their tasks with the Meta data and formats are fully including the collection, quality control, required accuracy and within set compatible processing and storage of relevant time limitations. Analytical error of data is within the sets of data and information accepted range In order to test procedures and Sources of analytical errors are data quality a successful pilot detected sub-basin can be completed with Information system enables the full support of all stakeholders officers of the Water Department to carry out specific queries and
need to adopt a participative approach (ensuring minorities’ inclusion and gender mainstreaming) in their policing activities, in accordance with “environmental justice” principles. responsibilities of the River Basin District Authorities are clearly defined, understood and broadly accepted Activity and staffing schedules are prepared, budgets increased and physical assets maintained New permits for water uses within the Drini River basin are issued following broadly accepted water allocation rules and procedures In 2 sub-basins of the Drini River Basin, An inventory of water resources has been completed, mapped Water resource protections zones are identified and delineated River basin management guidelines are adopted by planners administrative instructions in connection with the administration of Kosovo’s water resources Law (Law No. 2004/24). According to paragraph 19.4, the procedures, composition and structure of the River Basin District Authorities shall be determined by the MESP in a Subsidiary Act. However, this still is pending. If the Project wants to achieve its full impact, it will be important to ensure that the issuing of respective administrative instructions will be given high priority on the part of the MESP. Result 1: Information system for integrated water resource management. An integrated water resource data and information management system of the Drini Bardhë/Beli Drim River Basin is established, functional and tested, including the collection, quality control, processing and storage of relevant sets of data and information Information technology at Water Department is functional Relevance, consistency, accuracy and coherence of standardised data stored in a database are assured Meta data and formats are fully compatible Analytical error of data is within the accepted range Sources of analytical errors are detected Information system enables officers of the Water Department to carry out specific queries and Relevance check Consistency checks Data exchange protocols Duplication survey results for water quality parameters All available raw data and information is transparent and willingly shared amongst the project partners. Project partners have access to sufficient resources and capacity to fulfil their tasks with the required accuracy and within set time limitations. In order to test procedures and data quality a successful pilot sub-basin can be completed with the full support of all stakeholders
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