About SIWI
SIWI is a water institute. We leverage knowledge and our convening power to strengthen water governance for a just, prosperous, and sustainable future. We focus on a range of research and development topics within and around water that support decision-makers world. We believe that the best way to tackle water crises, and help bring about lasting change, is to strengthen water governance among public and private actors alike. SIWI’s strong, international team of knowledge-generators, convenors, facilitators, and trainers works to strengthen the systems and processes that govern access to and protection of fresh water, with the overarching aim to contribute to poverty eradication. SIWI also hosts several flagship programmes, including the UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility, the International Centre for Water Cooperation (ICWC), the Action Platform for Source-to-Sea Management (S2S Platform), and the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA). Through the Swedish Water House, we connect Swedish water stakeholders with each other and to international processes.
SIWI has been active in Ethiopia since 2015 starting with the inception of the Sweden Textile Water Initiative (STWI). The program has been engaging factories, companies, ministries and agencies to address resource use and technical production challenges that the industry and government agencies face in the textile sector in Ethiopia. The STWI programme was a collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and the Ethiopian Textiles Industries Development Institute (ETIDI) and the new programme is an expansion of previous experiences.
SIWI has now been granted additional funds from Sida to support national efforts in improving coordination and governance of shared water resources, addressing effluent challenges from textile production and landscape restoration needs in river basins.
The aim of the program is to develop a water governance program in select river basins in Ethiopia with the overall ambition of translating water management policy into action through the improvement of governance arrangements at a basin scale. SIWI will support River Basin Authorities, as the apex bodies responsible for all aspects of water management, to practically operationalize improved national and regional IWRM routines and communication mechanisms with relevant stakeholders. These stakeholders include government bodies, academia, civil society organizations as well as the private sector.
The program includes three work programs; (1) IWRM Capacity Building (2) Landscape Restoration and (3) Textile, under which the following objectives will be programmed and implemented:
1. Capacity Building amongst government bodies with responsibility or interest in water, or the textile sector as well as civil society stakeholders on methodologies to promote environmental good practice focusing on water management, improved governance and regulation and encourage stakeholder participation in decision-making.
2. Capacity Building to restore degraded landscapes, improve availability of clean water and productivity of land and natural resources through stakeholder dialogues and training of a broad group of landscape stakeholders such as farmers, foresters, pastoralists and local communities.
3. Capacity Building of academic institutions to perform comprehensive risk assessments and develop dialogue and adoption of risk assessment processes with government ministries and agencies responsible for development of industrial zones.
4. Capacity Building of ETDI in assessing and improving efficiency of water, energy and chemical processes in select textile factories (applying the STWI methodology).
5. Systematically assessing technological capacity and the required skillsets needed for industrial parks. In addition to cost-savings for the owners as well as reducing water use, developing skills for wastewater re-use, and reducing harmful effluents, a dialogue regarding compliance and sanctions for non-compliance will be held, aiming to develop trust between stakeholders.
Support a basin vision process in the Rift Valley Basin which can lead to standardisations and better coordination between the Ethiopian Basins Development Authority and its branch offices, encourage all stakeholders to overcome the collective action problems associated with adhering to or implementing environmental good practice, no matter which water-use sector they represent. The visioning process would be based on the successes achieved in the textile industry and then extended to include other sectors.
As part of the programme activities, SIWI is now looking for a technical coordinator to be responsible for delivering programs and activities of Work Program 3.
Key responsibilities
The key responsibilities of a technical coordinator comprise:
Estimated time allocation
1 | Coordinating, organizing workshops | 30% |
2 | Supporting Program Management | 20% |
3 | Developing reports | 10% |
4 | Supporting communication, outreach and multi-stakeholder engagement | 10% |
5 | Contribute to knowledge management | 10% |
6 | Contribute to program strategy direction | 20% |
Consultancy contract - 190 days
Preferred qualifications
Required skills
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