The
training materials: Improving the Operation of Canal Irrigation
Systems and the Rapid Appraisal Procedure for irrigation
systems (Manual and spreadsheets) are now available in Chinese.
Posted
Date : 29 May 2005 
Thanks
to China National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (CNCID-www.
cncid.org). Read and download the documents at Link.
The
updated Bahasa Indonesia version of the spreadsheets of
the Rapid Appraisal Procedure for irrigation systems is
now available.
Posted
Date : 29 May 2005
Read
and download the documents at Link.
Nepal: Training Workshop on Irrigation
Modernization, Management Improvement, and
Benchmarking, Sunsari Morang Irrigation Project, May 2003.
More...
Posted
Date : 1 June 2004
Thailand: The Royal Irrigation Department
of Thailand and FAO have conducted a training workshop
Posted
Date : 1 June 2004
on irrigation
system appraisal, modernization, improvement of management
and benchmarking in the Nam Oon
Operation and maintenance project, from 3 to 14 November
2003. read the training workshop completion reports
(in English and Thai) - Link
The
Department of Irrigation and Drainage of Malaysia (DID - http://agrolink.moa.my/did/)
and FAO have organized a national training workshop on irrigation
modernization
Posted
Date : 21 May 2004
rapid appraisal process and benchmarking in
Alor Setar and Langkawi Island from 27th February to 7th March
2004.
During the workshop, the trainees have appraised the MADA
irrigation project (http://agrolink.moa.my/did/muda/),
the
largest irrigation system in the country producing over half
of Malaysia's rice production, and made proposals for its
modernization. DID will adopt the RAP in its national benchmarking
programme and this workshop will be followed by
future training workshops in the country. Read
and download the workshop's report.
Vietnam. The Word Bank has approved
on 30 March 2004 the financing of the
Vietnam Water Resources Assistance Project of the ministry
of Agriculture and
Rural Development of Vietnam.
Posted
Date : 17 May 2004
This project will support the modernization of six of the
largest irrigation systems of the country. The project
documentation can be consulted of the world banks website.
FAO has supported the preparation of the project through
two training workshops on irrigation modernization
and benchmarking on the Cam Son and Dau Tieng irrigation
schemes in 2002. View the Cam Son workshop
report
Participants in the The First Southeast
Asia Water Forum
Posted
Date : 17 May 2004
(17-21 November 2003 in Chiang Mai, Thailand) have called
for the modernization of irrigation systems in the region.
The objectives of the Forum were to build regional capacity
among Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
practitioners with emphasis on putting policy into practice.
The organizers of the Forum included the Southeast
Asia Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership,
, the Royal Government of Thailand, the Mekong
River Commission, IUCN, IWMI and FAO. A Water and food session
was jointly convened by FAO and IWMI.
The outputs of the six sessions of the forum can be downloaded
from the GWP-SEATAC’s
website at www.gwpseatac.org
The participants of the Water and food session identified
three priority areas for regional cooperation among ASEAN
countries:
- The improvement and transformation
of large rice irrigation systems for participatory decentralized
management,
improvement of efficiency
and service, multiple use, financial sustainability through
payment of service and IWRM.
- International organizations
should support a SEA regional irrigation benchmarking programme.
- Regional sharing of experience
on irrigation service fees, cost sharing and participatory
irrigation management
and irrigation management
transfer.
Indonesia Lodoyo irrigation modernization
and benchmarking training workshop,
August/September 2003.
Posted
Date : 17 May 2004
The National Development Planning Agency
and the ministry of Public works of Indonesia and FAO have
supported
the organization of a national irrigation modernization and
benchmarking training workshop in September 2003. During
the workshop, the Lodoyo irrigation system (East Java) was
appraised by the trainees who prepared proposals for the
modernization of the system. At this occasion, the training
materials for irrigation modernization were translated
into bahasa Indonesia. Consult and download the bahasa Indonesia
training materials, the findings and proposals
of the trainees and the FSO conclusions and recommendations
of the workshop on irrigation modernization in Indonesia
Link.
The
new version of the rapid appraisal Procedure of Irrigation
systems is now available
in the Indonesian lanaguage (bahasa indonesia). Read and
download the documents at Link.
Posted
Date : 17 May 2004
See at Tools
Page.
The Rapid Appraisal Procedure for
irrigation systems (manual and spreadhseets)
is now avaialbel in Spanish thanks to the Irrigation training
and Research centre
(ITRC - www.itrc.org ).
Read and download the documents at Link.
Posted
Date : 17 May 2004
See
at Tools
Page.
The Russian translation of the Rapid
Appraisal Procedure manual and spreasheets have kindly been
made available by the Irrigation Training and Research Centre
(ITRC, www.itrc.org
). They can be downloaded at Link.
Posted
Date : 27 November 2003
See
at Tools
Page.
The
Russian-English bilingual edition of the training program
on irrigation systems
Modernization and benchmarking has kindly been made available
for dissemination
by the Irrigation Training and Research Centre (ITRC) of
the California Polytechnic
University. Consult and download the training program at
this Link.
Posted
Date : 6 November 2003
See
at Training
Page : ITRC training materials.
The
Rapid Appraisal Procedure manual and excel sheets have been
translated into
Indonesian and can be downloaded.
Posted
Date : 11 July 2003
See
at Tools Page : Rapid Appraisal
Process (RAP) and Benchmarking : Explanation and Tools.
The
Vietnamese translation of the Irrigation system modernization
and benchmarking (ITRC training materials) program has uploaded
and is available.
Posted
Date : 21 March 2003
See
at Training Page
: ITRC training materials.
The
manual and questionnaires of the Rapid Appraisal Procedure
have been updated and improved in October 2002 by Dr Charles
Burt, ITRC, with financial support from the Irrigation Institutions
Window of the World Bank.
Posted
Date : 06 March 2003
The
files and documents can be consulted and downloaded at Tools
Page : Rapid Appraisal Process (RAP) and Benchmarking :
Explanation and Tools.
The
Technical Briefs section of the website is now open and
has been uploaded with a number of technical papers and
briefs.
Posted
Date : 06 March 2003
See
at Technical Briefs Page.
The
Vietnamese translation of the Rapid Appraisal Procedure
manual and questionnaire has uploaded and is available.
Posted
Date : 06 March 2003
See
at Tools Page : Rapid Appraisal
Process (RAP) and Benchmarking : Explanation and Tools.
The
technical report of the FAO/World Bank/National Irrigation
Administration training workhsop on January 2003 on modernization
of irrigation systems, improvement of management and benchmarking
at the Magat Irrigation System, Philippines, is now available.
Posted
Date : 06 March 2003
See
the report at Training
Page : ITRC training materials.
The
technical report of the FAO/World Bank/MARD training workshop
on modernization of irrigation systems and benchmarking
of March 2002 at Cam Son, Viet Nam, is now available.
Posted
Date : 06 March 2003
See
the report at Training
Page : ITRC training materials.
Nepal:
FAO and the Department of Irrigation of Nepal will organize
a training workshop in irrigation modernization and benchmarking
Posted
Date : 17 January 2003
The
workshop will be supported by FAO and Nepal's Nepal Irrigation
Sector Project, funded by the World Bank and will take place
in May 2003.
Thailand: the Royal Irrigation Department
will organize two training workshops on irrigation system
modernization and benchmarking in 2003
Posted
Date : 09 December 2002
The
Royal Irrigation Department of Thailand will organize two
training workshops on irrigation system modernization, appraisal
and benchmarking in April and June 2003 with the support
of FAO for a total of fifty staff of RID, national consulting
firms and national training and academic institutions. During
the two two-week workshops, the trainees will conduct the
Rapid Appraisal of 4 medium/large irrigation system
according to the tools and procedures developed by FAO,
ITRC, IPTRID and the World Bank (to be conducted during
the training workshop) and develop modernization plans for
the systems.
RID
is already using irrigation modernization concepts and rapid
appraisal procedures thanks to previous FAO activities in
support of the Department. Additional hands-on training
is required for proper understanding, use and adoption of
these concepts and tools by RID staff and consulting firms
involved in the current projects in preparation, as well
as dissemination of these concepts and tools through the
training curricula of training and academic institutions
in the country.
Training
materials and curricula and the Rapid Appraisal Procedure
will be available in Thai on this website.
For
more information, please contact Mr
Thierry Facon, Water Management Officer, FAO-RAP. or
Dr Somkiat Prajamwong
at RID.
Philippines:
NIA organizes a training workshop on irrigation system modernization,
improvement of management and benchmarking in January 2003
Posted
Date : 09 December 2002
The
National irrigation Administration of the Philippines, with
the support of FAO and the World Bank, is organizing a Training
workshop on irrigation modernization, management improvement
and benchmarking in North Luzon from 20 to 31 January
2003. The training workshop will provide 30 senior officials
in NIA with modern concepts and tools for improving operation
and management of irrigation systems, service to farmers
and the financial sustainability of irrigation systems,
appraising the performance and benchmarking of irrigation
systems, and develop appropriate irrigation modernization
strategies and programs for the medium-large scale national
irrigation systems.
World
Bank support is provided through the World Bank-Dutch Trust
Fund (BNWPP) for Water Resources (under the Irrigation Reform
Funding Window) and the Water Resources Development Project
of the Philippines. FAO, in association with the World Bank,
has organized similar training workshops on irrigation modernization
in Thailand with the Royal Irrigation Department (March
2000) and Vietnam with the Ministry of Agriculture and rural
Development (March and May 2002).
Resource
persons for the workshop will be Dr Charles Burt and Dr
Stuart Styles of the Irrigation Training and Research Center
of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, and Thierry Facon,
Water Management Officer of the FAO Regional Office for
Asia and the Pacific.
For
more information, please contact Mr
Thierry Facon, Water Management Officer, FAO-RAP.
A
New FAO Publication on design, management, policy and the
performance of irrigation systems
Posted
Date : 09 December 2002
The
new publication from the FAO Regional Office for Asia and
the Pacific, How design, management and policy affect
the performance of irrigation projects (RAP publication
2002/20, 156 pages) is now available for on-line consultation
and downloading, and will soon be available in hard copy.
The
growing disinterest of donor agencies and governments in
irrigation infrastructure can have worrying consequences
for global food security in the coming decades. Pointing
out that a major reason for this is the poor performance
of large-scale canal irrigation projects, the document,
however, disagrees with the dominant view that there are
only institutional and managerial problems in irrigation,
emphasising institutional and management reform for improving
the efficiency of irrigation schemes. Instead, it singles
out the relative neglect of design, technology and operational
factors as a major explanation for the gap between the projected
potential and actual performance of irrigation networks.
"…the main constraints to modernization may be
the still widespread denial of the importance of technology
in irrigation performance, the strong resistance to change
of the irrigation community and the limited expertise available
to promote and apply modern concepts and design…,"
notes the study. "These obstacles would not be overcome
without recognition of the importance of technology in the
performance of irrigation projects by all international
and national organizations involved in the development of
water resources and the internalization of modern design
concepts in water resource development/irrigation policies
of donor agencies," it concludes.
The document is a contribution to an emerging understanding
that physical and institutional reforms of the irrigation
sector should be combined, and that irrigation management
transfer is not about transferring operation functions only
but also governance to the irrigation users and a combination
of the two at different levels. In making its case, the
document reviews the decades-old debate over the causes
of inefficiency in irrigation projects, the role of multilateral
lenders such as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank
as well as country experiences from China, Egypt, India,
Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, North Africa, Pakistan, Sudan
and the United States of America.
For more information, please contact Mr
Thierry Facon, Water Management Officer, FAO-RAP.
Go to the publication
Order a copy
of the publication
FAO
updates the audio-visual training programme on Improving
the Operation of Canal Irrigation Systems and makes it available
for on-line training
Posted
Date : 09 December 2002
The
training program on Improving the Operation of Canal
Irrigation Systems is now available for on-line training
and downloading on this website. The program is an update
of the audiovisual presentation published by the Economic
Development Institute (now known as the World Bank Institute)
and the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of
the World Bank in 1988. The program has been widely used
internationally to present new alternatives for the design
of new schemes or the modernization of existing schemes
and has had a significant impact on the irrigation modernization
programmes of countries such as Mexico or Turkey. In order
to respond to a continuing demand for the program materials,
FAO has updated the program and converted it to new formats
that take advantage of developments in information technology
to make the program easy to procure and use individually
or in lectures and to disseminate to the widest possible
audience. The World Bank kindly agreed to make the original
program available for FAO to further develop, update and
disseminate.
It
is hoped that this program will be of use to a broad audience
of planners, designers, managers, professors, lecturers
and students, serve as a basis for the fruitful exchange
of ideas and experience across borders, and more generally
contribute to the rapid dissemination of new knowledge which
is needed for the modernization of the irrigation sector.
The
program can be consulted on and downloaded free of charge
from the website. The program will also be distributed on
CDROM and published as a hardcopy publication to satisfy
the requirements of and for the convenience of various categories
of users.
FAO
is interested in developing partnerships with national irrigation
institutions, training centers, universities or programmes
to translate and publish the program into other languages.
Interested institutions are invited to contact.
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Thierry
Facon
Water Management Officer
Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, Thailand
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