IFAD Experience in Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) in the NENA Region

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IFAD Experience in Participatory Irrigation
Management (PIM) in the NENA Region
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Lessons Learned from International Experience

• Over 10 years of international experience have
  demonstrated that PIM holds the key to
• reducing financial and institutional burdens of
  the government in relation to operations and
  maintenance of irrigation systems
• promoting economic use of water, and the
  associated increase in productivity
• promoting irrigation system sustainability
• providing a basis for fair access to water as a
  scarce resource

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Lessons Learned from Experience in the Region

• The long-term viability of water supply systems
  is dependent on improved systems of management
  and disciplined approaches to the allocation of
  the scarce resource
• Limited public funds and recognition of the
  capacity of the private sector have motivated
  governments to adopt policies, enact laws, and
  initiate programmes aimed at improving the
  efficiency of water supply systems
• Common element in recent IFAD-funded projects has
  been a shift from government-run systems to
  supporting the introduction of the PIM approach

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Lessons Learned from Experience in the Region

• Through recent thematic and impact evaluation
  studies undertaken by IFAD and others, it was
  recognized that
• recent steps in establishing enabling conditions
  for PIM have not been sufficient to motivate
  water users to join a true partnership with
  governments
• efforts to-date focused more on enabling
  conditions which require decisions at the upper
  levels of government, and much less on creating
  the conditions for implementation for those
  decisions at the field level
• the introduction of PIM has to involve a stage of
  capacity building and a stage of confidence and
  trust building between water users and government
  agencies

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IFADs Ongoing Action-Research PIM Progamme

• 4 countries Armenia, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
• Objective To help develop methodologies for the
  effective introduction of PIM and the use of PIM
  as a model for replication on a nation-wide basis
• Coverage 4 types of irrigation systems
• Approach Demonstrative in nature

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IFADs Ongoing Action-Research PIM Progamme

• 1st intervention identify and define the missing
  prerequisites (laws, policies, etc.) for
  introduction of PIM
• Output refined institutional and legal framework
  for effective partnership between Government and
  water users

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IFADs Ongoing Action-Research PIM Progamme

• 2nd intervention create institutional conditions
  for PIM to become operational
• Output enhanced capacities in the fields of
  mobilization of water users, establishment of
  WUAs, on-farm water management, planning and
  implementation of OM activities, financial
  management, water scheduling, cooperation and
  conflict resolution

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IFADs Ongoing Action-Research PIM Progamme

• 3rd intervention create channels for active and
  sustained policy dialogue on water management
  issues
• Output establishing a steering committee
  consisting of representatives of the 4 countries
  and IFAD. The committee allows for a
  cross-country exchange of views and experience
  and to discuss the need for any adjustments in
  the design of the action research programme