Institutional Development Plan for Establishing the Work Communication Unit in the Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources

摘要

The purpose of this delivery order (DO), according to the scope of work (SOW), was to initiate the creation of a unit in the Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources to operate a comprehensive water communication program. Work actually began May 4, 1995 with the arrival of Robert Kern, communication planning advisor, and John Woods, institutional development advisor and field team leader. Because the funding for this DO was linked to the Irrigation Management Systems (IMS) project, the original termination date was September 21, 1995. From the beginning, team members recognized that the DO could not create the water communication unit itself, but rather should assist the MPWWR to establish a necessary base and prepare an institutional development plan for the actual development of an operating water communication program. In the 4.5 months during which this DO operated, much was accomplished. There was an amendment to the contract in September which included a no-cost extension of the original contract by two months, which was mainly used to clean up administrative details. The total duration of the DO was thus officially 6.5 months.