International Network on Participatory Irrigation Management

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International Network on Participatory Irrigation
Management
Tirana Albania June 2004 Hatsuya Azumi
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Gany Hafied

• What does the logo indicate
• Focus on PIM rather than expand to other areas
• Haque
• Participation is a social phenomena diverse and
  varied
• Excellent to have a network.
• Focus on grouping countries in the regional
  context
• Learning is easy where one can relate to
• Dhingra
• Migrate from Water management to ?Participation?
• Agenda 21 management at the basinstakeholders
  participation WCD WM and PIM to go together
• PIM ?PWM?!

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INPIM How it came about?

• World Banks interest in Mexico Case (1993)
• National Seminar in India (1994)
• National Seminar in Pakistan
• International Seminar in Mexico
• Continue networking of professionals
• International NGO registered in Washington DC
  (1994)

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INPIM - Mission

• Global network of professionals involved in
  irrigation and water resource management to
  facilitate and promote participatory irrigation
  management.
• Through Exchange of
• Ideas
• Best practices
• people
• Training material

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INPIM - Status

• Registered non profit based in Washington DC
• Originally created by the staff of the World Bank
  and located at the EDI/ WBI
• Board of Directors
• Currently supported by the Dutch Government
  through a grant
• 2 full time staff

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INPIM - Membership

• open to any individual who is involved
  professionally in irrigation management and
  shares a commitment to exchange information and
  experience across national boundaries
• Membership by Type
• Individual 208
• National Chapter 918
• World Bank 21
• Institutional 6
• TOTAL 1153

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INPIM National Chapters

• INPIM aims to build country networks for the
  facilitation, promotion and advocacy for
  participatory irrigation management
• National Chapters
• India -China
• Pakistan -Jordan
• Nepal -Egypt
• Indonesia -Mexico
• Vietnam -Albania

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International Seminars

• International seminars on participatory
  irrigation management enable exchange of ideas on
  PIM
• Mexico (1994)
• Turkey (1996)
• Indonesia (1998)
• India (1999)
• China (2002)
• Albania (2004)

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INPIM - Partnerships

• WORLD BANK
• IWMI
• MAIB, Bari, Italy
• FAO
• DSI, Turkey

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Where Do We Go From Here?

• Main Issues
• Financial Sustainability
• Objective/Program Direction

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Where Do We Go From Here?
WRM
PPP
PIM
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Participant Feedback -2

• Ito Hiroo Director General, Irrigation Sector
  Strategy Development, JBIC
• New movement to Japan Local to Local activities
  similar to PIM
• Exchange of experiences (neighbors difficulties)
  of Japanese with the others.
• There is a room for participation by the JBIC
  exchanging the Japanese experience.
• Will explore the possiblity of developing
  partnerships with INPIM.

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• HA comments received are comments
• Logo arrow its a forward movement. Whats
  happened in Albania is a case of a revolutionary
  movement with ideas..
• Opinions were divided to stick to PIM or to widen
  the canvas of activities.

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• Salah
• Next seminar
• France?
• Egypt ?
• Grouping of countries - ..
• Main mission
• Irrigation and participation central to INPIM
• Broaden as needed options PPP or others