Attachments
Advisory Model - Lessons Learned
This document provides a concise summary of lessons learned through implementing the "Advisory Model" partnership between the IRC and EBRD to support the West Irbid Wastewater Project in Jordan.
For the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), partnership with a humanitarian NGO is a new way of working. The initial commitment to find new ways to partner came during the WEF Global Future Council 2020-2021, where actors from across sectors urged greater collaboration between multilateral development banks and NGOs. IRC and EBRD then established a pilot partnership to support the West Irbid Wastewater Project in Jordan near the Syrian border.
This project, for which EBRD signed a EUR 25m sovereign loan (December 2017) alongside significant grants from the EU (EUR 19.6m), GCFF (EUR 2.5m) and EBRD SSF (EUR 5m), will construct wastewater networks in 15 towns to be connected to the nearest wastewater treatment plant.
This will benefit both Jordanians and Syrian refugees, who account for 7 per cent of Jordan’s total population, providing urgently needed sewage infrastructure to over 120,000 people in the project area. Through this project, EBRD is piloting an ‘advisory model,’ intended to leverage different, but complementary, skill sets to enhance the impact of the investment. IRC is providing oversight and advice to EBRD on the project’s community engagement plan, which is being implemented by a Jordanian NGO, the Royal Scientific Society. These are initial lessons learned from EBRD and IRC’s partnership.