Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW) is preparing to issue a prequalification notice for the consultancy contract for an irrigation project in the Kafr el-Sheikh and Damanhour governorates. KfW has allocated Eur 19 million ($23 million) towards the total cost of the project, which is the latest in a series of water and wastewater schemes in the Nile Delta region. The programme has been co-managed and co-financed by the German and Egyptian governments since the mid-1980s. The latest project covers some 40,000 feddans out of the total 248,000 feddans covered by the programme.