India
and Rawanda has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral
co-operation in Water Resources Development and Management to realize
the goal of achieving food security in the African nation and promote
friendly bilateral relationship between the two countries.
The MoU was signed by Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat and his Rwandian counterpart Agnea M Kalibata.
It specifies various areas of co-operation with focus on planning,
design and implementation of marshland and hillside irrigation,
watershed management, water governance, and training and capacity
building of farmers and functionaries in the water sector.
The MOU also wants promotion of Joint Ventures between the private
entrepreneurs of the two countries through mutual facilitation of
investment procedures and for working out mechanisms and modalities for
funding and technical assistance. The agreement also provides for a
Joint Commission to follow up implementation of this MoU.
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