A development partnership was established that included the Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE), the African Water Facility, the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) for over three years. In 2011 a pilot project aimed at developing a unified mechanism for monitoring and evaluation to enables the countries of North Africa for the preparation of an annual report based on a regular monitoring of water situation and thus increase the efficiency of the water sector at national and regional levels: Monitoring and Evaluation of the Water Sector in the North Africa Project (MEWINA), that was implemented by the Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE), in cooperation with the ministries of water resources in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania and Tunisia.
On the occasion of the conclusion of the first phase of the project, CEDARE organized the Round-Table Meeting of Donors on 8th of December 2014, to publicize the major outputs of the project that include State of Water reports 2012, in addition to the Rapid Assessment Reports for monitoring and evaluation of the water sector, at the regional and national level and the shared basins and aquifers.
Also during the 3rd Arab Water Forum, organized by the Arab Water Council from 9 to 11 December 2014, private session to launch the water situation reports for the year 2012 as one of the major outputs of the project include the Regional State of Water reports 2012 for North Africa, and the National State of Water reports of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania and Tunisia, and State of Water reports of shared river basins and Aquifers; Nile River Basin and Senegal River Basin and Nubian Sandstone Aquifer and reservoir of the Northwest desert Aquifer System, in the Dec. 9, Cairo