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The
main goal of this assignment is to recommend a strategy for
developing maintenance capacity with the local private sector.
Therefore, the objective of this consultancy assignment is to
conduct capability survey of small contractors and to make an
assessment of work standards and needs for capacity maintenance
works. In other words, the study of identify opportunities of
decentralization and privatization of the drainage maintenance work
through:
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Recommending options for efficient
utilization of EPADP-owned heavy equipment currently used in
self-implemented maintenance work through the private
sector.
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ii)
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Identifying options and approaches to
involve the private sector in the maintenance of small open
drains and pipe drainage through the private sector
including privatization of EPADP-owned maintenance
capability (i.e. maintenance centers and equipment).
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Reorganization of EPADP’s drainage
department and centers to cope with the vision and
objectives of the institutional reform and to rely more on
the private sector in implementing the maintenance work
while focusing more on monitoring regulation and providing
drainage advisory service (DAS) when needed.
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The
second phase of the project is to carry out experimental work to
evaluate private sector contractors contracting with EPADP or
Integrated Water Resourc4s Directorates, and with Water Users’
Organizations. This will help in validating the various basic
assumptions of the proposed strategy of private sector participation
in maintenance activities. The experimenting work will help in
attaining preliminary indices for expected level of success for
achieving the targeted objectives for the expansion of the private
sector participation and the institutional reform program (as a
framework of such participation). Moreover, it will provide a model
that can be used in the case of the pilot project success as an
effective tool for the promotion of the institutional reform
program.
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