Approx. value of the contract EURO. Duration of assignment (months): 11 months

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1 Bago-Sittaung Integrated Water Resources Analysis innovative monitoring and data handling techniques to leapfrog operational flood management Approx. value of the contract EURO Location within country: Bago region Client: NL Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment Sandra Schoof, Senior Policy Officer Min. Infrastructure & Environment: Duration of assignment (months): 11 months Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 3 Completion date (month/year): June 2016 consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 3 associated Consultants, if any: - senior professional staff of your consulting Alwin Commandeur Data and modelling expert The aims are to increase system understanding, make this understanding widely online available and to involve the innovative business community (SMEs) Significant decisions are to be made about managing and engineering the water systems in Myanmar and developing large structural and non-structural projects (e.g. hydropower dams, industrial development, extension of irrigation capacity, operational quantity and quality management, etc.) An important aspect of integrated water resources management is near-real time operation and control. With near-real time data collection on the state of the water resources and computer models, predictions can be made and decision support can be provided to operators in the field. For example, if a heavy precipitation event is predicted, operators will be advised on reservoir operation strategies to reduce flooding downstream. Within this project we test en demonstrate these kind of innovations and tools and make them widely known. With Myanmar and Dutch experts, including MSc and PhD students from both countries we work on the Bago-Sittaung system analysis and innovative monitoring showcases. The project approach consists of four work packages, knowing: WP I: Making inventory data and monitoring system; WP II: Data collection and showcases; WP III: Independent and advanced data and system analysis; WP IV: Project management.

2 Capacity development for Integrated water Resources Management in Myanmar Approx. value of the contract EURO Location within country: Yangon Client: NUFFIC Ms. Brigitte Vos NUFFIC Completion date (month/year): August 2019 Duration of assignment (months): 4 years Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 80 (divided over 28 staff) consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 60 associated Consultants, if any: - UNESCO-IHE Deltares senior professional staff of your consulting Prof Nick van de Giesen Project Director Alwin Commandeur Permanent expert based in Myanmar Yangon Technological University (YTU) and Myanmar Maritime University both located in Yangon, requested assistance from the NICHE program for developing and further improving water resource engineering programmes at BSc MSc and PhD level. The project consist of: - Training of university staff: -of trainers - Design of curriculum for BSc and MSc degree courses and short courses for professionals - Development of course material - Preparation of exercises and case studies - Providing short term tailor-made for professional organisation in water management. - Improve modelling and data handling capacity of staff of both universities - Create a strong link with the labour market The following courses will be developed: 1. Integrated Water Resources Engineering 2. River & Coastal engineering 3. Port & harbour development The project consists of four specific objectives (with corresponding work packages). Each work packages consists of a cluster of activities: 1. Developing Degree Education 2. Developing Professional Education 3. Institutional Capacity Development 4. Academic Capacity Development 5. Networking The link with the broader Water community in Myanmar is very important including the business sector.

3 Young Professionals Programme (Young Water Professionals) Approx. value of the contract EURO Location within country: Yangon Client: Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend NL (RVO) Fernanda van der Velde, programme Manager, RVO : fernanda.vandervelde@rvo.nl Duration of assignment (months): 8 months Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 4 Start date (month/year): April 2015 Completion date (month/year): December 2015 associated Consultants, if any: - UNESCO-IHE National Water Resources Committee Myanmar AG consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 4 senior professional staff of your consulting Prof Nick van de Giesen Project Director Alwin Commandeur Permanent expert based in Myanmar There is little ministerial coordination or a cooperation structures for making integrated decisions on Water Resources Management in Myanmar. For this reason the National Water Resources Committee (NWRC) was established in late 2013, supported by the Advisory Group (AG). In order to function properly, these groups should be able to make use of reliable data, studies, decision support tools and human capacity. Within this programme 30 Young Water Professionals (YWPs) from key-ministries of Myanmar were coached and trained in specific Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) education professionals who earlier received poor education to enhance the human capacity of the NWRC. Under the programme, in six joint learning-by-doing projects, Dutch MSc students and YWPs provided the NWRC with reliable data, studies and valuable decision making tools in IWRM. Services were provided by Delft University of Technology in close collaboration with experts from the AG. The project approach consists of three work packages, knowing: WP0: Project Management & Monitoring WP1: Young Professional Programme - 1 year coaching of young Myanmar water professionals - Expert support and steering, during missions and upon request - Coordination between Myanmar YPP and Netherlands students activities and MoU projects - Integrate findings in Water Resources Curricula at Yangon Technological University (YTU). WP2: Learning-by-doing student research - Selection, recruitment and daily supervision

4 Pan Hlaing River Integrated Development Plan (PHRIDP) Location within country: Pan Hlaing river Client: NL RVO Fernanda van der Velde RVO: Approx. value of the contract EURO Duration of assignment (months): 12 months Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 15 Completion date (month/year): December 215 consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 1 associated Consultants, if any: - Haskoning DHV Deltares senior professional staff of your consulting Martine Rutten Coordinator factsheet development Since 5 to 7 years ago the Pan Hlaing River was totally silted and could not discharge any storm water from the area anymore. As a result surrounding farm land flooded, decreasing paddy yield and resulting in crop losses for farmers. Furthermore, the siltation led to almost no water supply for irrigation during the dry season. To reduce the floods and provide a dependable fresh water supply, the Irrigation Department has rehabilitated the Pan Hlaing River in to provide 20 m3/s for irrigation by means of excavation, of the Pan Hlang River (from Mezali to Ayeywa) and the construction of an upstream sluice at Mezali. Furthermore a (temporary) cofferdam was constructed at the downstream end to allow for the excavation and water storage in the dredged Pan Hlaing canal. The cofferdam can be opened during the rainy season to allow for discharge of flood waters. ID wishes to construct a more permanent structure at the downstream end of the Pan Hlaing river in the form of the sluicegate. If well designed, the sluicegate can bring benefits to more stakeholders in the area. The city of Yangon is growing rapidly and the area between the Pan Hlaing River and Twante canal is earmarked to satisfy Yangon s expansion ambitions. A new town plan is drawn up which will accommodate a 2 million population. Furthermore, on the Northside of the Pan Hlaing River s mouth is a luxury Golf Estate and adjacent (to the West) an important industrial zone, which are both developing rapidly. It can be stated that while the current land-use is agriculture, rapid urbanization will take and the areas land-use may quickly have a more urban character. It was required to take an integral approach and therefore a Pan Hlaing River Integrated Development Plan was drafted. To develop a toolbox of factsheets, to capture and spread the knowledge gained in the learning by doing projects. The factsheets describe approaches and tools that consultants use in their projects to implement IWRM and illustrate these approaches with practical examples from the projects. In addition references are given for further more in depth learning. Factsheets were developed together with staff and students from two local universities

5 provider Training Title: TMT-399-MMR New Computer Technologies to Support River Management Directorate of Water resources and Improvement of the River systems (DWIR) where the Number of Starting date Myanmar 10 Mar Description of the Tailor Made Training on (new) river skills including knowledge on numerical modelling tools. Ending date Mar implementation of the (%) consortium members (if any) 100 EP-Nuffic Training including lectures on numerical modelling, hydrodynamics of rivers, morphology and sediment transport, case study assignments, computer modelling exercises, field visits (how to do field observations?) and a closing seminar. See also the report TMT-399-MMR. provide r Training Title: TMT-400-MMR An Introduction to a New World: Use of Open Data, Open Information and Open Software in Water Management where the Number of Startin Endin implementatio n of the (%) consortiu m members (if any) Finance d by Irrigation Department (ID) Myanmar 10 Feb Description of the Tailor Made Training on how-to acquire open information, literature, open data and the use of remote sensing observations by means of opensource software to enhance irrigational designs. Feb 100 EP-Nuffic Training including lectures on online data acquisition, monitoring hydrology, agriculture and the climate, case studies and short exercises with GIS-software, field visit and a closing seminar. See also the report TMT-400-MMR. Training Title: Flood Risk Management provide r where the Number of Startin Endin implementatio n of the (%) consortiu m members (if any) Finance d by NWRC Nat. Water resources Cie Myanmar 14 June 2016 Description of the Tailor Made Training on flood risk management and the use of modelling (SOBEK) Sept RVO Training including lectures, fieldwork, computer practicals with SOBEK and a final seminar to dissiminate the results to the NWRC.