Explanation and Tools

originally funded by:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
39 Phra Atit Road
Bangkok 10200, THAILAND
Thierry G. Facon - Water Mgmt. Officer
Thierry.Facon@fao.org

modified with funds from:

Irrigation Institutions Window
The World Bank
Dr. Fernando Gonzalez - Task Manager
FGonzalez@worldbank.org

by
Charles M. Burt, P.E., Ph.D.
Irrigation Training and Research Center
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 USA

original September 2001
updated December 2001
revised October 2002 for World Bank Irrigation Institutions Window

This Document

This WORD document [Rapid Appraisal Process (RAP) and Benchmarking] provides an explanation of the Rapid Appraisal Process (RAP), as well as a brief explanation of Benchmarking and the data that must be collected for both endeavors. This document also provides an explanation the EXCEL documents that are used by persons during the RAP. An EXCEL spreadsheet (with 12 internal worksheets) is provided twice:

1. Blank RAP and Benchmarking - October 29 2002.xls
2. RAP and Benchmarking MARIIS Philippines.xls

As the names suggest, the EXAMPLE has data in it so that users can examine an example before entering data in a blank spreadsheet.

This documentation and the 2 spreadsheet documents can be downloaded from the Cal Poly ITRC web page:

http://www.itrc.org/papers/papersindex.html