Consulting Services for review of design, construction supervision and accompanying measures
Funded by: KfW
Client: Ministry of Transport and Communications/ Municipalities of Gostivar, Kavadarci and Gevgelija
Implementing partners: IncoWest/Hydrophill
Overall project value: 1,696,615€
Country: N. Macedonia
Implementing period: 17/06/2020 – 01/11/2023
The Water and Sewerage Programme Macedonia (“Programme”) is aimed at ensuring sustainable supply of drinking water for the population in selected Programme Municipalities at socially acceptable costs. While the Ministry of Transport and Communication (MoTC) represents the Recipient as the Programme Coordinating Agency (PCA) at the central government level when carrying out the Programme, the public utility companies of the participating municipalities (“Programme Municipalities”) are the Project-Executing Agencies (“PEA”), which are in charge of the implementation and operation of their respective investment projects.
The programme concerns the rehabilitation of urban water supply and sewerage systems in selected medium-sized municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia: Gostivar, Kavadarci and Gevgelia.
The programme is funded by German bilateral co-operation, with KfW as the lending agency and with funds from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and EU Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBIF).
The Project objective is to deliver funding for strategic investment projects in the Western Balkans in the environment, energy, transport and social sectors as well as for private sector development.
Type of services provided
- Review and upgrade of project design and tender documentation
- Technical assistance in procurement and contracting
- Supervision of works and quality assurance
- Assistance in commissioning of facilities
- Institutional support measures, including organizational adjustment
- Conducting a TNA, Training Plan, Horizontal Learning and trainings using on site and on job training approach
- Capacity building of Public Enterprise (PE) staff in human resource development, financial management, billing and collection, public relations and customer communication, operation and maintenance and non-revenue water management
- Training and assisting the PCE in implementation, supervision and contracting maters in compliance with ESHS requirements
- Providing a long-term capacity-building plan and guidelines for the sustainable development of utility staff capacities over the next 5-10? years
- Construction of supervision of 2 water reservoirs, and 28 sewerage and water supplies line in three municipalities