MACEDONIA IRRIGATION AND REHBAILITATION PROJECT

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MACEDONIA IRRIGATION AND REHBAILITATION PROJECT

• LILE SIMONOVSKA

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Macedonia Irrigation Rehabilitation
Restructuring Project
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FO
RESTRY WATER ECONOMY
Governament support of Irrigation sector reform

• Legislation framework
• Establishing of new water economies (WE)
• Establishing of Irrigation water comunities
  (IWC)
  
• Rehabilitation of main irrigation
  infrastructure
  
• Rehabilitation of IWC distributive network
• WE Capacity buildig program
• IWC Capacity buildig program

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Macedonia Irrigation Rehabilitation
Restructuring Project

• Water Economies Law
• WE are resposible for OM of the main structures
  (dams) and chanals
  
• WE may be established in order to supply water
  for irrigation drinking, domestic and
  commercial uses industrial uses, including power
  generation.
• Autonomous self-funding public law bodies
• Managed Board of water users
• Irrigation Water Comunities Law
• IWC is an association of owners or users of
  agricultural land associated and responsible for
  management, OM, construction, reconstruction or
  expansion of tertiary and/or secondary network or
  small irrigation schemes
• IWC is legal entity and is non-profit
• Management board (farmers and local self
  governament representatives)

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Macedonia Irrigation Rehabilitation
Restructuring Project
Empowered IWC (WUAs)

• IWC acctivities
• Preparations for the irrigation season
• Evaluation of previous irrigation season
• System walk-through
• Annual work plan
•      the provisional cropping plan
•     proposed maintenance and repair works
•     proposed manner of water distribution
•     proposed way of fee collection
•     proposed schedule of Assembly meetings, and
•     proposed hiring of staff and/or labour
• WUA budget
• Cash flow forecast

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Macedonia Irrigation Rehabilitation
Restructuring Project
Empowered IWC (WUAs)

• IWC acctivities
• 2. Operation and maintenance
• Cleaning/repair of irrigation infrastructure
• Irrigation requests from farmers
• Advance payment of water fees
• Submit water needs to WE
• Recruit a water masters
• Publish irrigation requests on notice board
• Prepare irrigation schedule
• Field irrigation
• Maintenance/repairs as needed

Rehabilitation of IWC distributive network
(first year suport from the Project)
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Macedonia Irrigation Rehabilitation
Restructuring Project
Empowered IWC (WUAs)

• IWC acctivities
• 3. Collection of water fees
• Irrigation requests from farmers
• Collect advance payment of water fees from member
  farmers
  
• Submit water needs to WE
• Publish irrigation requests on notice board
• Prepare irrigation schedule
• Field irrigation
• Collecting water fees during the irrigation (on
  the field)
  
• Payment of monthly bill to WE
• Reserve found

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Macedonia Irrigation Rehabilitation
Restructuring Project
Empowered IWC (WUAs)

• Elements of IWC water fee calculation
• Water Economys price of water (m3)
• IWC Yearly amount of water (m3) demanded from
  WE
  
• IWC internal costs for MO

• IWC is responsible for collecting of water fee
  from farmers
  
• No money no water!!!
• 100 of water fee payment

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IWC organizational strengthening
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Macedonia Irrigation Rehabilitation
Restructuring Project
Various functions looked after by the private
sector

• Planning (irrigated area, crop pattern, required
  quantity of water)
  
• IWC Management board
• Construction (structures, network, compensation
  basins)
  
• Construction firms
• Design (extension of network, new irrigation
  methods and field irrigation equipment)
  
• Extension agencies
• Maintenance (annual maintenance, specific
  maintenance and repair of hydro equipment)
  
• IWC private civil working firms
• Capacity building program
• National consultant firm
• Financial management (preparation of invoices and
  financial statements, auditing)
  
• Private accountant

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Macedonia Irrigation Rehabilitation
Restructuring Project
Rehabilitation of irrigation infrastructure

• HMS Tikves 13.400ha
• Acumulation (dam), intake tunnel, joint chanal,
  right and left magistral chanal, distributive
  network (secundary chanals, pipelines)
  
• Planned reconstruction of open trapez chanals
  90,98 km
  
• Completed reconstruction and sanations of 67,88
  km(75)
  
• Planned reconstruction of distributive network
  for 13.375 ha
  
• On going reconstruction
• HMS Bregalnica20.400ha
• Accumulation (dam), right and left magistral
  chanal, distributive network (secundary chanals,
  papelines)
  
• Planned reconstruction of open trapez chanals of
  74,50 km
  
• Completed reconstruction and sanations of 50,50
  km(68)
  
• Planned reconstruction of distributive network
  for 20.393 ha
  
• On going reconstruction
• HMS Polog8.000ha
• Main irrigation chanals, distributive network
  (secundary chanals, papelines)
  
• Planned reconstruction of open trapez chanals
  20,90 km
  
• Completed reconstruction and sanations of 15,60
  km(75)
  
• Planned reconstruction of distributive network
  for 8.000 ha
  
• On going reconstruction