The final product of the nwrp project is the National Water Resources Plan – 2017.  The Plan gives a description of the water resources in the country, the objectives, problems and issues and the proposed measures and activities.

The nwrp strategy includes a large number of policy decisions and measures that will be implemented in the coming years. Many stakeholders are involved in this implementation and careful planning and coordination is required. An implementation framework has been developed that assigns clear responsibilities for carrying out the activities involved. It also includes the budgetary requirements for the implementation, including investments and recurrent costs. The framework specifies:

• what: the concrete actions that have to be taken
• who: the stakeholder that will be the prime responsible and who will take the lead in the implementation of the action;
• how: the steps to be taken and the consultative process  involved; and
• when: the time planning.

The implementation of the National Water Resources Plan will follow the five-year and annual planning system of Egypt. It is an element of the overall planning and coordination structure of the water sector. Actually,
the implementation framework covers the bottom part of the planning cycle, as illustrated in Figure 14. The main elements of this framework are:

The National Implementation Plan
The National Implementation Plan provides an overview of the actions to be taken. It includes a listing of the actions and required budgets for investments and/or recurrent costs involved and indicates which stakeholder will be first responsible to take action. Moreover, the National Implementation Plan describes how the actions of the individual stakeholders will be coordinated, monitored and evaluated.

The Operational Plans.
The operational plans of the individual stakeholders contain the translation of the National Implementation Plan into concrete activities of the stakeholders and the assignment of the responsible organizational units. Some of these operational plans have a national nature, others a more local one. The stakeholders have the full responsibility for their own plans. Therefore, these operational plans have not been included in the nwrp.

Monitoring, Progress Reporting and Evaluation.
The stakeholders will also be responsible for the monitoring, progress reporting and evaluation of the implementation. A procedure has been described in the nwrp. The monitoring will follow the progress of implementation and provide feedback on the impacts of the implementation on the water resources system. As such it will contribute to the next round of planning. The monitoring, progress reporting and evaluation will be overseen by the National Water Council.

Above description of the elements of the implementation framework illustrates that the main responsibility for the implementation remains with the individual stakeholders. This is similar to the present situation. What is new is that the implementation of the various measures is placed in an overall national context (the National Water Resources Plan), coordinated at a national level and that the results of the implementation will provide feedback for the next round of planning.

National Policy Document
Based on the National Water Resources Plan a Policy Document for decision makers at the political level is under preparation. Although the project has considerably contributed to the preparation of a draft policy document, the completion of the final document is the sole responsibility of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, beyond the competence of the project.