SDC - Water management in Ferghana Valley, phase IV 2008-2010
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See also SDC - Water management in Ferghana Valley, phase III 2005-2008 | SDC
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Water management in Ferghana Valley (phase IV, 2008-2010) | |
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Ferghana Valley (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan) | |
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1 May 2008 - 31 Dec 2010 | |
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| The goal of the IWRM project is to improve and reorganize the institutional and managerial methods of water distribution in the Ferghana Valley. The project mainly addresses the possibilities for water saving, improving agricultural productivity, organizing water administrations, promoting and institutional building-up of the new public - private participation forms and the improvement of water allocation mechanisms among the users and between the three countries.
Overall, the project aims to contribute to more secure livelihoods, increased environmental sustainability and reduce water allocation disputes and supports the agricultural restructuring in Central Asian countries through improved management of water resources in the Ferghana valley. So far three phases of the project have already been successfully implemented. During the Phase I, a detailed analysis of the legal, institutional, economic-financial and managerial issues, as well as an analysis and evaluation of earlier experiences, methodologies and systems developed by other donors and regional and state organizations in the water management sector, was carried out. Major achievements of the project during phase two were the increased awareness amongst the policy makers about the principles of IWRM, improved water distribution along canals, demonstrated bottom–up approach, demonstrated potential for increasing yields and water productivity by up to 30 percent. Throughout the third project phase the efforts have been made to improve efficiency of modern governance policies, management procedures and institutional arrangements introduced at the national, regional and local levels during the second phase. The project also focuses on expansion of improved irrigation management practices and strengthening cooperation with other IWRM projects in the region. In this phase the project puts greater emphasis on the reform of the water policies at the national level. As a result, innovative solutions for irrigation canal management and sustainable water user associations and effective methods for sustainable financing of the system at the canal, WUA and farm level shall be developed and introduced.
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