Duration: June 2009 - June 2013

Client: Development Alternative Inc. (DAI)

Donor: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Location: Morocco 

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Project Description: 

The Morocco Economic Competitiveness Program (MEC) was a four-year USAID-funded economic growth program that took a multi-sectoral approach to reduce barriers to productivity, trade, and investment in Morocco.

Provided Services: 

ECO Consult provided technical assistance to MEC during its program lifecycle in:

• Improving the capacity of key Government of Morocco institutions to implement water/agricultural policies
• Developing institutional and operational structures for agricultural wastewater reuse at the regional level (Meknes and Oriental)
• Finalizing and supporting the implementation of treated wastewater reuse schemes in the Meknes agricultural pilot project
• Completing a feasibility study on the wastewater reuse downstream of the wastewater treatment plants in Oujda (replication of the Meknes study
•  Facilitating the creation of a partnership between selected organizations within the Government of Morocco and the Royal Hashemite Government of Jordan.