Organizational Change for Participatory Irrigation Management

WUOs.
Representatives of the LGIs.
Representatives of NGOs and community self-help groups.
Members of Labor Contracting Society (LCS) labor groups/laborers and contractors.
Officials of the implementing agencies.
Such orientation/training programs will cover all relevant issues from the identification
stage to the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of the water resource schemes. The
orientation/training programs for different stakeholders will be planned and implemented in an
integrated manner, so that efforts made in this respect for different categories of the stakeholders
will be mutually supportive to each other. Separate orientation/training modules for various
topics/issues and stakeholders will be prepared as considered necessary and implementation of
orientation/training courses will be done on the basis of the Annual Orientation/Training
Calendar.
At present, there is no separate rule or act for registration of WUOs. Most of the WUOs
are unregistered. Some WUOs are registered under the Co-operative Societies Ordinance. To
ensure effective WUOs the government is considering formulation of a separate and appropriate
act for registration of WUOs for PIM.
PARTICIPATORY PROCESS
Stakeholder Participation in Different Stages of Project Cycle
Participation of the local stakeholders is a continuous process in the pursuit of sustainable
development. For water resources development, participation starts from the very early stage of
identification of land and water resources in general, and schemes or projects in particular.
Water sector projects involve two parallel but inter-related processes one dealing with
engineering, agricultural and environmental issues and the other concerning local stakeholder
participation including its institutional framework. The process covers both structural and nonstructural
measures. When the process is defined within a project cycle, it can be framed in six
stages as follows:
Identification.
Feasibility study.
Detailed planning, design and stakeholders institution building.
Implementation and trial operation.
O&M.
M&E.
1. Identification
The identification stage included early participation of all level stakeholders for taking an
inventory of problems/constraints, full range of alternative actions as potential solutions,
assessment and reconnaissance process.
2. Feasibility Study
During the feasibility study stage, stakeholders' participation includes crystallizing the
project concept and integrating the needs of all sub-sectors (using water), on the basis of a full
range of environmental assessment and alternative studies.
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