The Water Governance Activity (WGA) program is a multi-year project funded by USAID, which aims to support the Government of Jordan (GoJ) to achieve measurable improvements and greater sustainability of the water sector by providing technical assistance to strengthen the GoJ’s reform, policy development and implementation, and capacity-building efforts. WGA will support the following objectives; support the GoJ to define and resolve water sector strategy and policy issues; improve water entities’ performance by reducing network losses, increasing conveyance efficiencies, and improving utility cost recovery; and specific, cross-cutting objectives related to support to gender, youth, persons with disabilities (PWD), and private sector engagement.
The Water Audit Expert will work closely with the WGA team, MWI and the water utilities (Miyahuna, Aqaba Water Company, Yarmouk Water Company) to develop and implement a plan to build the capacity of the different partners in performing water auditing and feasibility analysis in addition to support WGA in selecting and implement water saving schemes in 2-3 of large water consumers. The following tasks describes the expected tasks in details.
Task I: Assist WGA water conservation team in selecting and follow up the implementation of 2-3 water saving schemes in 2-3 pre-selected large water consumers facilities
Expected effort level (10 days)
Task 2: develop and conduct Water Auditing training (material and actual training)
Expected effort level (24 days)
Task 3: develop a monitoring and follow up mechanism to show the progress in the places that were selected to do water saving models that
Expected effort level (24 days)
Deliverables under this work scope will include:
Deliverable title | Description | Due date |
Task 1 | ||
Recommendation report for selecting the Large consumer that WGA will target | Review the WIT report and come out with recommendation for the best locations to work with a clear analysis of Cost-benefit and expected financial and technical outcomes | week 3 |
Implementation approach and workplan | Develop an implementation plan for the selected locations that includes BOQs, schedule and deliverables of the technologies used | Week 4 |
Conduct training for the seven large consumers audited by WIT project | Conduct on the job training for three staff members of the seven large consumers that WIT project included in their report the on water auditing | Week 8 |
Technical information regarding the benefits and saving provided | Assist in developing the promotional materials for the water saving schemes so that they can be used as a model for other institutions (provide technical and financial analysis)
| Week 8 |
Task 2 | ||
Customized training materials developed (Water Audit) | Used already available or develop customized material specific for water utilities | Week 2 |
Train at least 25 staff on water audit | Formal and on the job training for at least 25 staff of MWI, the three water utilities, and the target large water consumers | Week 6 |
Training reports | Each report should include the trainings that was conducted, the approach and training material, participants, at least four audit reports that the trainees done for a facility in each water entity (the ministry and the utilities) as part of the on the job training | Based on the training schedule |
Task 3 | ||
Monitoring plan for the selected locations | The consultant should develop a monitoring plan for the water saving in the selected location to document the progress and show evidence for the technical and financial benefits before and after installing the saving technologies. It should include cost estimation and equipment and techniques needed for documentation | Week 12 |
Evaluation report for the selected | Conduct a 6 months evaluation to the improvements and benefits of the implementation plan to show evidence of the validity of the saving and to use the findings information for additional promotional materials | Week 22 |
The total Level of Effort contemplated for this assignment is a period of up to (58) days as follows:
Task 1 (10) days
Task 2 (24) days
Task 3 (24) days
This assignment is mostly to be conducted in Amman, with some travels to the different locations in Jordan as needed. Might need accommodation and transportation
The position holder will directly report to the Water Demand management Team Leader, or his designee.
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