This document discusses a project to improve governance and access to drinking water and sanitation in the rural Nirnova sub-basin of Moldova. It involves cooperation between France and Moldova. The project aims to create a local inter-municipal structure covering the Nirnova sub-basin to manage drinking water and sanitation projects. This structure would develop a multi-year program and serve as a contact point for implementing measures from the river basin management plan. The document also describes an assessment that was conducted and the creation of a "platform of mayors" to discuss establishing the inter-municipal structure and selecting initial demonstration projects.

1. Improvement of governance and
access to drinking water and
sanitation in the rural sub-basin of
Nirnova (Moldova)
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2. Decentralized cooperation in the field of drinking water and sanitation
FRANCE
MOLDOVA
Solidarity Water Europe
SEE/SWE
 Artois Picardie Water Agency (AEAP)
 Rhin Meuse Water Agency (AERM)
 The National School of Water and Environment Engineering of
Strasbourg (ENGEES)
 Grand Est Solidarity and Cooperations for Development (GESCOD)
 Alsace-Moselle Water and Sanitation Inter-municipal Structure
(SDEA)
 Rayon of Nisporeni
 Rayon of Hincesti
 Water Agency : Apele Moldovei
 Agency of Central Regional Development
 French Embassy
Convention between And
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3. Project identification and localization : 30 municipalities concerned
Moldova two hydrographic basins Nirnova sub-basin 3
16 villages in Nisporeni
14 villages in Hincesti
2 Rayons

4. Actual context of the project
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43 858 inhabitants
23 %
urban areas
77 %
rural areas
30 % connected to WS system
15 % without Nisporeni
Other part use wells and sources
4 municipalities have a sewer system
1 treatment plant in Nisporeni
15 % have a septic tank
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5. Slide 4
VT1 Groundwater has high level of mineral not suitable for drinking/non compliant with water drinking normes
Vrabie Tudor; 07.06.2018

6. Building up a local inter-municipal structure covering the Nirnova sub-basin
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Gathering the means and skills to reach the critical size and think at a proper scale
Become a credible project owner to design, implement and ensure the
decentralized management of drinking water and sanitation projects
Establish a feasible multi-year programme for the development of municipal water
and sanitation services, taking into account the considerable needs and constraints
Be a focal point for the local implementation, on the sub-basin of the NIRNOVA, of
concrete actions envisaged by the basin management plan of the river PRUT

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Link between inter-municipal structure and river basin Management Plan
Overall political vision of Management Plans
Local implementation of concrete measures and actions
The inter-municipal structure could be:
• consulted and give its opinion for the elaboration of the
Programme of measures (pressure on the resource, advice
on the provisions to be retained in the PoM)
• Support local implementation of selected measures

8. Project Implementation
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 A technical and institutional diagnosis of the sub-basin was carried out (Moldovan regulatory
framework, water and sanitation situation in the villages, detection of first priority projects that
can be financed)
 Creation in Strasbourg in March 2018 of a Moldovan and Alsatian "platform of mayors",
resulting in:
• a consensus on the creation of an inter-municipal structure model of the Inter-
municipal Development Association (IDA) type, with a technical operator
• selection of a first series of demonstration projects (protection of catchment areas,
construction of a wetland treatment plant, improvement of access to drinking water
with pricing) for experience sharing at district scale with EUWI+ support
VT3
VT4

9. Slide 7
VT3 ...as demostrative projects
Vrabie Tudor; 07.06.2018
VT4 I would take off the technical operator. put another point saying a consensus about having a single technical/regional operator
for the region
Vrabie Tudor; 07.06.2018

10.  Setting up of two task groups :
- Inter-municipal structure development
- Technical operator management
 Presentation of the first solutions to the steering committee in early October
 Proposal to contribute to better connect the measure implementation model developed at
Nirnova sub-basin scale with the RBMPlanning process at Danube Prut and Black sea River Basin
District scale including consistency of stakeholders involvement mechanisms
Project Implementation
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Necessary skills
Choice
Organizing mode
Legal form
Missions
Operating mode

11. An example of intermunicipal structure for
improving water-sanitation governance in Moldova
 More competent and credible project owner who could better
carry out its mission on WSS development, financing project,
attract and guide international aid
 This model could constitute a standard strategic “meta-measure"
that can be integrated to the programme of measure of the
Moldavan 2 RBMP
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