| Series of training workshops on irrigation
modernization
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: Workgroup/seminar
Certificate: Certificate of participation
Frequency of programme: One off
Programme's main focus
Fostering of institutional
capacity building.
Enhancement of capacities in water
professionals.
Programme prospectus
Training workshops on
irrigation modernization have been organized with the support of FAO in
Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and took place in the Philippines, Thailand and
Nepal in 2003. The objectives were to:
- Understand the principles and processes of
benchmarking and rapid appraisal.
- Understand the principles of irrigation
project modernization.
- Learn how to evaluate an irrigation project, using a
systematic diagnostic procedure that includes visits to both the field and
office.
- Analyse the collected data, both manually and using computers and
arrive at benchmarking and rapid appraisal indicators.
- Interpret the
benchmark and rapid appraisal indicators in terms of level of service, strengths
and weaknesses in the service provided, identify best practices.
- Learn how
to make specific recommendations and to establish priorities for modernization
that will result in improved project performance.
Performance can be measured by both external indicators (such
as efficiency of water usage and finances) and internal indicators (such as
improved water delivery service to fields). Typically, the workshops are
organized for about 20 participants and include:
- Four days of classroom style learning process
including discussions and exchange of views.
- 4 days of field trip to
understand measurements, data reading, recording and filling field forms
(participants broken into working groups).
- 4 days of data analysis,
interpretation of results and discussion (as working groups).
Target group
Trainers, system managers and
operators, designers, lecturers
at engineering faculties, engineers in
consulting firms and decision makers at irrigation agencies.
Dates/duration
Series of two-week training
workshops, 2002-2003
Language: English, Vietnamese, Indonesian,
Thai
Partners
World Bank; Royal Irrigation Department,
Thailand; National Irrigation Agency, Philippines; Department of Irrigation,
Nepal; Bappenas, Indonesia; Vietnam Institute for Water Resources, Vietnam;
Ministry of Agriculture and rural Development, Vietnam |
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 of 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 the
access of all people at all times to the food they need for an active and
healthy life. |
