Organizational Change for Participatory Irrigation Management

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5. Absence of Attractive Retirement Package and Lack of Funds While NIA wishes to accelerate its program on the delegation of O&M responsibilities or turnover completely entire irrigation systems (NIS) to IAs, the absence of an acceptable retirement package for the O&M staff to be affected by the program is a major setback. Mandated under RA 8345 to turnover O&M activities to IAs within a five-year period, NIA filed a request to the national government to infuse funds (subsidy) to pay for the retirement of NIA staff. The request has been favorably considered. However, availability of cash is still a big question mark. NIA also lacks the necessary funds to pursue its irrigation management turnover program. In 1998, NIA was able to get an appropriation of P=20 million to support IA organization and strengthening activities. This amount was reduced by 50 percent (P=10 million) for 1999, which was very insufficient to implement the institutional development activities for the year. While the five-year financial requirement is estimated at P=60 million/year, for the year 2000 NIA was given an appropriation of only P=30 million. 6. Dwindling Morale Dwindling morale of program supervisors and implementers due to the recent streamlining proposal prepared by NIA in compliance with the requirement of the national government. The proposal is on the streamlining of the functions of the various offices under NIA including reduction of staff, but which practically abolishes the IDDs and IDSs at the regional and field offices, respectively. These units are the ones responsible for implementing the farmers Participatory Approach Program. To this end, the IAs through their nascent national confederation, the NCIA, have been voicing out their serious concern about the sustainability of their associations if the field units they used to work with would be abolished. 7. Policy Changes The executive pronouncement in mid-1998 on the abolition of ISFs, the bread and butter of NIA as a government corporation, followed by a directive to condone farmers' back accounts are serving as disincentive to NIA and the IAs. While AO No. 17 was issued which reduced the ISF rates by about 50 percent for small farmers (with farm holdings of two ha and below), it did not receive total acceptance by the IAs. AO No. 17 was a temporary measure to cushion the impact of the El Niñ o phenomenon and the financial crunch which occurred in 1997-98. Majority of the IA federation presidents and officers allege that their IAs have been deprived of the major source of funds for their capital build-up. They are not also amenable to the proposed condonation of back accounts. According to them this will just benefit further the influential, rich and well-connected farmers who, they further say, composed the majority of delinquent irrigation beneficiaries. They allege that it is the small farmers who religiously pay their dues to NIA. Despite the reduced ISF rates under AO No. 17, collection dropped substantially from 47 percent in 1997 to only 36 percent in 1999. It is also ironical to note that the current NIA revenue from ISF is insufficient to finance the O&M of NIS, which is estimated to be about P=2.500/ha (US$51.55). Much worse, is that ISF income is so low that the O&M staff of some NISs do not receive their salaries on time. 8. Untimely Realignment of Funds As discussed in the earlier sections, despite the meager funds that NIA receives from the national government for the implementation of its institutional development programs, about 62 percent of the current budget has been cancelled and realigned in August allegedly to mitigate the effects El NiÒo predicted to recur in the country early next year. Portion of the annual budget for IDP is for the salaries of IDOs working in areas formerly financed by the - 89 -
ecently completed foreign assisted projects. As a result of this untimely realignment of funds most of the IDP activities (IA training, etc.) have to be cancelled. 9. Political Intervention Members of the legislative body usually receive pork barrel funds from the annual budget for the implementation of projects within their respective areas of jurisdiction. In some cases, portion of these funds is allocated for the construction of small irrigation schemes or rehabilitation of existing ones, usually CISs. The concerned politicians, particularly those who are vying for re-election or for higher positions become so benevolent that they no longer impose cost recovery to the beneficiary IA. This is a gross violation of the government policy on cost recovery being implemented by NIA. The benevolence of some political figures often causes the recipient IA and nearby IAs that previously received financial assistance from NIA to question the policy on cost recovery. In such situation, NIA has to allocate its meager resources for going back again to the project sites and explain to the farmers the background and rationale of the policy. - 90 -
Page 1 and 2: From: Organizational Change for Par
Page 3 and 4: Report of the APO Seminar on Organi
Page 5 and 6: FOREWORD The significant achievemen
Page 7 and 8: ureaucracies and farmer organizatio
Page 9 and 10: officials as well as farmers) about
Page 11 and 12: productivity, and agricultural perf
Page 13 and 14: Role of Water Users Associations fo
Page 15 and 16: oles: it may be diversified and div
Page 17 and 18: irrigation systems? - for example,
Page 19 and 20: 1.5 ha and there are 72 farmers. In
Page 21 and 22: 1. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN IRRIGATIO
Page 23 and 24: In Phase I, Curve A - the marginal
Page 25 and 26: Mexico than in Asia. Government exp
Page 27 and 28: to well over 50 percent (Figure 3).
Page 29 and 30: increasing number of health and env
Page 31 and 32: Levine, Gilbert, Ko Hai Sheng and R
Page 33 and 34: This paper will present the legal f
Page 35 and 36: System Management Committees (SMCs)
Page 37 and 38: Planning Reflection Mobilization Ac
Page 39 and 40: (Irrigation Systems Improvement Pro
Page 41 and 42: Table 3. Results of the Survey on I
Page 43: Asst. Administrator Project Develop
Page 47 and 48: d. Size of irrigated farm holding;
Page 49 and 50: started only in 1990 during the ins
Page 51 and 52: lectures without actual practice. M
Page 53 and 54: Defects in the construction of conv
Page 55 and 56: The FIO approach was also used in p
Page 57 and 58: eplacement of steel gates, repair o
Page 59 and 60: Days (hours) Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.
Page 61 and 62: creeks fed by the return flows from
Page 63 and 64: if total collection is 50-60 percen
Page 65 and 66: emergency repairs during calamities
Page 67 and 68: of tapping and developing new sourc
Page 69 and 70: increased efficiency in O&M. While
Page 71 and 72: Cases have been reported where coop
Page 73 and 74: improvements should bring in modifi
Page 75 and 76: To attain self-reliance, local orga
Page 77 and 78: catalyzing the development of local
Page 79 and 80: Water Markets There are examples of
Page 81 and 82: is open to any Malaysian citizen of
Page 83 and 84: dumping-level prices to private com
Page 85 and 86: P 2 = Planned diversification of cr
Page 87 and 88: Unfortunately, in certain countries
Page 89 and 90: Tasks Related to Irrigation Managem
Page 91 and 92: Expected improvements in irrigation
Page 93 and 94: Dwivedi, R. C., 1996. "Role of Co-o
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1. BANGLADESH INTRODUCTION - 143 -
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Dry Season Water Resources Gross dr
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Table 2. Irrigated Area by Irrigati
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And, a major strategy to increase f
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d) To bring institutional changes t
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Stakeholders Types of stakeholders:
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WUOs. Representatives of the LGIs.
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circumstances stated above, PIM wil
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2. REPUBLIC OF CHINA INTRODUCTION -
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Meeting Affairs Committee President
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Taiwan is irrigated. Most of the pa
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Table 5. Water Used by Agriculture
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- 167 - Figure 5. The Framework of
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Sugar Sugar remains fundamentally i
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(vii) Research policy, since the pr
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ii) More part-time farmers than ful
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Table 1. Plan-wise Position of Irri
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The details on some major irrigatio
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As a result the total live storage
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It is an informal farmers group wit
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The WRO of PWD has established 135
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logging, 3.06 million ha by soil sa
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7. It is essential to have an unifo
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Prihar, S. S., 1995. “Management
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At the time of independence, net ir
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- 193 - Table 1. Growth of Sector-w
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Table 4. Investment on Major and Me
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Surface and groundwater potential i
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Table 10. Productivity of Two Main
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Table 12. Extent of Water-logging S
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CHANGES IN POLICIES AND RELEVANT ST
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2. Management of Groundwater While
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For the orderly administration of t
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in India are States and hence irrig
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with a broad profile of the functio
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Artisan Guilds which were supposed
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But due to very-very slow progress
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(i) Policy initiatives to effect or
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----------. Annual Reports, various
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CURRENT SITUATION OF IRRIGATION DEV
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Table 1. National Budget for Water
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Food security and sustaining self-s
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distributed to several agencies i.e
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FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR PIM IN INDONES
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7. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN INTRODU
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sector is about 38 percent. The mea
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On the basis of the defined duties,
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area of about 1,000 ha with the par
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iii) Integrated planning on the bas
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The final section is on the Nationa
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Figure 2. Indus Basin Irrigation Sy
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During Rabi (winter) all the natura
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Malakand Circle Chief Engineer O&M
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courses along the newly constructed
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would largely be confined to water
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9. PHILIPPINES - 253 - Enrique A. S
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there are inadequate number of fiel
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Presidential Decree (PD) No. 552 in
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Earlier Organizing and PIM Efforts
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clearing) in Type I and being remun
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Table 7. The Irrigation Management
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c. ISIP II Region NIS Service Area
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on a modal of very smallholding siz
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However, overall policy decisions,
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addition to handing over of O&M dut
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implemented to ensure farmer partic
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sector organizations including Maha
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farmers who had been the operators
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11. SRI LANKA (2) INTRODUCTION - 27
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Irrigation System Management before
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Figure 1 shows the current organiza
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3. Operations Under participatory m
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Under INMAS, an Institutional Devel
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The performance of FOs in water dis
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costs. The savings and the official
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Table 1. Major River Basins in Thai
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Economic and Social Development Pla
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Director General Senior Expert on I
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does not address water resources ma
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They typically adopt approaches, wh
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Table 5. Proposed Plan for Implemen
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farmers in water management”. Thi
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seasonal water requirements and sub
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Table 1. Steps to Transfer Manageme
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APO Seminar on Organizational Chang
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Ms. Aquilina D. Mendoza Supervising
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Ms. Barbara R. Doctor Project Offic
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