Programme title

Institution/organization

Irrigation system modernization and benchmarking

Contact person
Thierry Facon - Regional Water Management Officer

Contact person's address
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP)
39 Phra Atit Road
Bangkok 10200
Thailand

Contact person's Telephone/Fax
Tel +662-697 4156 Fax +662-697 4445

Contact person's E-mail
[email protected]

Type of programme
Online electronic learning

Certificate
None

Frequency of programme
Available all the time

Programme's main focus
Fostering of institutional capacity building.
Enhancement of the capabilities of water professionals.

Programme prospectus
This suite of presentations has been developed by the Irrigation Training and Research Centre (ITRC) of Cal Poly for FAO as the core training materials for the training workshops on irrigation modernization and benchmarking supported by FAO in the Asia-Pacific Region. The presentations are made available on this website for broadest dissemination.

However, they should be used for lectures by resource persons with a full and detailed understanding of the topics. The suite includes an introduction to irrigation modernization, evaluation of modern irrigation projects and various other technical issues that are important when talking about modernization.

Target group
Trainers, system managers and operators, designers, lecturers at engineering faculties, engineers in consulting firms and decision-makers at irrigation agencies.

Programme www
http://www.watercontrol.org/training/
itrc/contents.htm

Dates/duration
Available all the time

Language
English

Partners
ITRC, California Polytechnic University, USA

FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Acronym
FAO-RAPG

Country
Thailand

Address
Maliwan Masion
Phra Atit Road
Bangkok 10200
Thailand

Tel +662-697 4000

Fax +662-697 4445

E-mail
[email protected]

Institute/organization www
http://www.fao.or.th/

Brief description of institution/organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is the largest specialized agency in the United Nations system and the lead agency for agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural development in the world. It has 183 member nations, plus a member organization, the European Union. FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity and to better the conditions of rural populations.

The FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) was opened in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 1947. A first formal step leading to the establishment of FAO Regional Offices was taken by the FAO Council in 1947, asking the Director-General to prepare plans for the creation of branch offices in four geographical regions, namely Latin America, Europe, the Near East and Asia. Today 40 countries are members of RAP. The region accounts for over 57 percent of the world population and 73 percent of the world's farming households. Therefore, this region is the most important region in the world from the viewpoint of food security, nutrition, agriculture and rural development. With the implementation of the decentralization policy, a Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific Islands was established in 1996 in Apia, Samoa. Some 175 staff of the regional and sub-regional offices work together to alleviate poverty and hunger in the region by promoting food security and access for all people at all times to the food they need for an active and healthy life.