Herath Manthrithilake

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IWRM Fergana OUTCOMES IN 2006

• Herath Manthrithilake

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Common achievements

• Capacity building in local areas and accumulation
  of huge experience on IWRM, for the first time in
  CA
• Raising Public awareness activities through Mass
  Media brings its positive results
• In each country building up platform for publicly
  participation and each level (WUG-WUA-Canal)
  interconnecting

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Common achievements

• Team-work guidance of canals - Implemented for
  the first time
• Establishing of WUGs
• where water users are close with WUAs,
• which increase
• water allocation,
• water counting,
• contractual relationship,
• Membership due collecting etc.
• where decrease
• waste of water in organizational level,
• conflicts,
• According to the project results it was published
  one of first technical marks/note for decision
  makers

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Results PC Level

• Stakeholders inventory and institutional analysis
  (KBC)
• Round table on transforming management to joint
  organization of KBC
• There were established 9 cells of ?WC in hydro
  areas (SFC)
• SMID team activities on supporting CWCs
• Assistance to AAC joint organization

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Results PC Level

• BP
• First version of guidance,
• Conducted approbation in cooperation with of
  CMO/CWCs specialists (AAC developed its BP)
• Conducted survey of international experience
  concerning water allocation on canal level
• Specified some canals to transfer good
  experiences Pravoberzhniy (KG) North Ferghana
  Canal/NFC (UZB and TJ)
• Established business relation with Education
  institutions (Memorandum,some materials provided
  and established working commission related to
  implementation of IWRM in teaching process)

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Results WUA Level

• Business plan development manual for WUA (WUA
  Japalak)and training
• Join management on water allocation within
  framework of WUA
• SMID team (22 members) Strategy development of
  WUA
• Training of trainers on water management for WUA
  (WU plan, water supply, counting,crops demand
  and evaluation of activities) - 25 specialists 12
  WUA UZB, 11 specialists and 3 WUA TJ, and 20
  specialists 5 WUA KG
• Assembling of potential hydrographic WUA ( South
  Ferghana Canal/SFC and KBC)

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Results WUA Level

• Hydrographic WUA were established
• 14 NFC (20,000 ha) 5 KBC (4,000 ha)
• SMID related to strengthen WUA (organizational,
  technical, and stirring up advices)
• Trainings were conducted on allocation of water
  by time with indicator evaluations
• Conducted annual survey of WU
• (182 WU Akbarabad, Zarafshan and Isan)
• WUA directors meeting effects for dissemination
  of success stories

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Results PRODUCTIVITY

• Training and seminars in cooperation with SIC and
  local consulting services on
• Additional irrigation,columbine, planning of
  irrigation based on weather forecasting,
  correcting of irrigation time in accordance with
  climate data
• Elaborated respective brochures and
  recommendations
• Established efficient WUG
• (51 ??C, 28 KBC ? 8 NFC)
• Elaborated brochure for WUAs, CMOs
• Why farmers joining to WUGs

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Results PRODUCTIVITY

• Train of WUG leaders for water allocation,
  assisting to elaboration of simple schedules,
• Farmers days in demonstration sites,
• Involving them in meetings of WUA and so on
• Support of initiatives WUG (KBC ? ??C)
• Training on budgeting,
• Project documents,
• Execution of collective maintenance of work,
• Joint planning of technical improvement with WUA
  management.
• Experience of WUG establishment has been
  recognized as an innovative project and
  experience of WUG establishment in KG awarded
  grant in amount of 3 000 (project presentation
  done by Janibek Kamilov ) and trip to USA
  (Washington) to CGIAR annual meeting

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Results National level

• Organization of study trip to Turkey to study
  their experience on implementing of IWMI
  principles.
• (11 persons regional WMU/?????????, CWUUs/CMOs
  and WUAs)
• National round table on establishment of working
  commission , discussion concept of transformation
  to joint management, draft of the transformation
  agreement
• (Khojent, December 2006)
• Seminar in cooperation with Ministry of water
  management and agriculture of UZB
• Transformation of WMO into market relation
• (November 2006)

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Results National level

• Political marks (technical marks) IWRM
  principles implementation
• Wide publication (PR)
• 1 ?V, 7 newspapers, 7 web-sites and 1 article in
  magazine
• 2 scientific articles in international magazines
  related experience of the project
• Established contact with local education
  institutes in order to adopting and implementing
  project outcomes into the teaching process
  accent for the future

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• Thank you!

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IWRM FERGHANA PLAN (2007)

• Herath Manthrithilake

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Plans ?? Level

• Stakeholders inventory, Institutional analysis
  and discussion on principles of representation,
  raising role of the ??? throughout hydro
  territory (SFC)
• Assistance on execution of signed agreements
  related to transmission of (KBC ? ??C)
• Stirring up SMIR along SFC (Andijan part) and
  KBC
• Round table on transmission of management to
  joint organization of SFC (Discussion of concept,
  contracts and establishment of critical mass)

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Plans?? level

• Institutional analysis of the right bank (Osh) in
  order to elaborate strategy of implementation of
  IWRM principles and transmission of experience
• Guidance on BP development for CMOs and
  conduction training
• Counting of all water resources in process of
  planning
• Self evaluation methodology of organizational
  activity of the CMO for CWUUs

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Plans WUA level

• Dissemination of guidance on business plan
  elaboration for WUA, Training of Trainers and
  monitoring
• Training on grant proposal elaboration , getting
  credits and efficient information search
• Implementation of coordinated method of water
  allocation in newly establishing WUA

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Plans WUA Level...

• Involving and assistance of CWUUs/CMOs in WUA
  development (assembling of potentials,
  establishment and reorganization into
  hydrographic WUA)
• 3 seminars on exchange of experiences with other
  projects in UZB, TJ and KG
• Exhibition of achievements of WUA in Ferghana
• Training and implementation of methods of water
  users survey in WUA meeting in order to evaluate
  its management

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Plans Productivity

• Elaboration of principles, brochures and
  recommendations(elaboration of water using plan
  for the leaders of WUG, water allocation in site
  of WUG, perfection relations of WUG and WUA,
  determination for water demand upon simplified
  methods)
• Conduct seminars and trainings for specialists of
  consulting services and ordnance yards in
  cooperation with SIC

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Plans Productivity

• Conduct farmers day in each country, where
  leaders of WUG will share their experience to
  others
• Involving of specialists and leaders of WUA for
  establishment of efficient WUG and train them in
  their territory

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Plans National level

• Rendering assistance to SIC in organizing
  national round tables, seminars and trainings
• IWMI conducts regional exhibition on project
  achievements for all interested parties in
  Ferghana
• Policy Brief elaboration Institutional
  development, raising of the potential, consulting
  services, implementation of economic mechanisms
  of IWRM etc
• Publication of 2 articles about project success
  in international magazines

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Plans National level

• Accomplishment of action on PR (on components) in
  close cooperation with local SMID
• Elaboration of interactive and multimedia disk
• Documentary film about project
• National round table on transmission of SFC
• Assistance for working group on transmission of
  KBC for agreement subscription
• Establishment of business relation with main
  Universities (Dushanbe Agrarian University,
  Tashkent institution on irrigation and
  melioration, Bishkek technical institute)

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Plans Small rivers

• Socio economic data gathering of interested
  parties
• Analysis of problem and institutional situation
• Organization of study tour in order to study Chu-
  Talas experience
• Organizing round tables, seminars and trainings
  on achievement of dialog in transboundary rivers,
  getting consensus and problem solving
  (international experience) and role of public
  participation

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Plans Small rivers

• Establishment of critical mass and assistance on
  creation of double committee in STR
• Discussion and elaboration of draft version of
  the bilateral agreement
• Strategy development on implementation of IWRM in
  STR

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• Thanks!