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AGENDA FOR THE 67TH MEETING OF INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (IEC) OF ICID

Chiang Mai, Thailand Opening Plenary (First Session): 08 November 2016, 16:30 – 18:30 hours

Second Session: 12 November 2016, 09:00 – 12:30 hours

Third Session: 12 November 2016, 13:30 – 17:00 hours

The International Executive Council (IEC) is vested with the management of the affairs of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID). The IEC considers all matters of policy which may be initiated or sponsored by any member National Committee or Office Bearer or by the Management Board, and may itself initiate and determine or otherwise advise and lay down any matter of policy. All matters affecting the executive or administrative function and financial liabilities of ICID must come up before the Council and its decision shall be conclusive. The IEC consists of the Office Bearers and representative from each National Committee and meets annually.

Opening Plenary (First Session): 08 November 2016, 16:30 – 18:30 hours

IEC Agenda Item 1: Welcome and opening remarks by the President

1. President Dr. Saeed Nairizi will welcome the members and make his opening remarks. President will put the role of ICID within the international water community in perspective, highlight the main achievements of the Commission during the last year since the Montpellier IEC meeting, throw light on the issues that are before IEC for deliberations, and delve on the need for a coherent approach towards the mission of ICID among its various stakeholders.

IEC Agenda Item 2: Scoping out the issues to be addressed during the workbody meetings:

Secretary General, Chair of PCTA and Chair of PCSO 2. Secretary General will introduce the Agenda and draw the attention of the members to certain issues such as the Draft Action Plan, International Research Program on Irrigation and Drainage, Technical Support Unit that need their special consideration during the session. He will also give a brief about the procedural aspects regarding the conduct of IEC and Meetings of Workbodies, including Permanent Committees. 3. VPH Felix B. Reinders, Chairman, PCTA and VPH Dr. Huseyin Gundogdu, Chairman, PCSO will make short presentations on the important aspects that need attention of various Working Groups and how to make the meetings of workbodies reporting to their respective permanent committees, more productive.

IEC Agenda Item 3: Presentation by the National Committees: Sri Lanka and Morocco 4. The representatives of National Committees of Sri Lanka and Morocco will make presentations to showcase the activities of SLNCID and l’ANAFIDE, respectively and share some important aspects regarding the agriculture water management scenario in their countries. The NCs look forward to feedback and suggestions from the members on conclusion of their presentations. 4A. SUPP: The NC presentations that will be presented by SLNCID and l’ANAFIDE are attached at Annex-S1, IEC Supp. Note — page A19; and Annex-S2, IEC Supp. Note — page A29, respectively.

IEC Agenda Item 4: Report on Presentation of WatSave Awards, Best Paper Award and recognition of HIS

IEC Agenda Item 4.1: Presentation of the Award for the Best Paper in the ICID Journal “Irrigation and

Drainage” 5. Out of the papers published in the ICID Journal “Irrigation and Drainage” during the year 2015, the best paper will be announced by Chair of EB-JOUR, PH Prof. Dr. Bart Schultz to be given as Best Paper Award for 2016. IEC Agenda Item 4.2: Presentation of WatSave Awards 6. The President, in consultation with the Management Board constituted a Panel of Judges (PoJs) comprising PH Dr. Gao Zhanyi (China), as the Chair and VPH Laurie Tollefson (Canada), VP Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture (The


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Netherlands), VP Prof. Dr. Abdelhafid Debbarh (Morocco) and Mr. Mehrzad Ehsani, Chair, WG-WATS (Iran) as the members for evaluation of the nominations received for WatSave Awards 2016. The Chair of the Panel will present his report to the Council introducing the works for which the awards have been recommended. 7. President will hand over the plaques and the representative of the host National Committee will present the prize monies to the winners. IEC Agenda Item 4.3: Recognition of Heritage Irrigation Structures (HIS) 8. The Chair of the Panel of Judges VPH Dr Huseyin Gundogdu, PCSO Chairman, will present the report to the Council about the identified historical irrigation and drainage structures that will be accorded recognition as “Heritage Irrigation Structures” and later included in the ICID Register of HIS on Council’s approval. The representative of the NC whose HIS have been recognized and recommended to be included in the ICID Register of HIS will be handed over a “Plaque/Certificate” to this effect.

Second Session: 12 November 2016, 09:00 – 13:15 hours

IEC Agenda Item 5: Action Taken Report on the decisions of 66th IEC and the decisions taken by the Management Board (MB)

9. Actions on all the decisions by the 66th IEC were initiated/completed during the year. A brief report on the action taken on the decisions of the 66th IEC, other than the routine and administrative in nature, is presented in Annex 1, page 7. The Secretary General will also present before the Council, the decisions taken by the Management Board on behalf of IEC in accordance with Article 8.1 of the ICID Constitution and Clause 3.9.2 of ICID By-laws, which are listed in Annex 2, page 9, for ratification by the Council.

IEC Agenda Item 6: Report by the Secretary General 10. Secretary General Er. Avinash Tyagi will briefly present the Annual Report 2015-16, already circulated, and also present the physical and financial progress on activities undertaken during the period from April 2016 till date to the Council, including report on cooperation and collaboration with various international organizations.

IEC Agenda Item 7: Presentation on Strategy Theme “On-Farm”

11. Co-Theme Leaders of Strategy Theme “On-Farm”, VP Bong Hoon Lee (Korea) and VP Kadhim Mohsin Ahmed (Iraq) will make a presentation on Strategy Theme “On-Farm” to analyze the work undertaken by the group of work bodies under the strategy theme and identify gaps, if any, in fulfilling the objectives of ICID relating to that theme as well as exploring/using interconnections with other themes. The presentation also aims to help in undertaking a creative analysis of functioning of ICID workbodies, their success in achieving mandates and invigorating them within the framework of ICID mission and objectives. 11A. SUPP: The presentations that will be made by Co-Theme Leader VP Bong Hoon Lee is placed at Annex-S3, IEC Supp. Note — page A43.

IEC Agenda Item 8: International Research Program for Irrigation and Drainage (IRPID)

Scheme 12. The revised IRPID Scheme, with the approval of the Management Board (MB) has been notified vide Notification No.16 of 2016 dated 27 April 2016 among ICID National Committees inviting them to establish regional nodes, following the examples of nodes that are being managed by Chinese National Committee of ICID (CNCID) and Iranian National Committee of ICID (IRNCID). The IRPID Scheme that has been revised based on the suggestions of the Management Board of Regional Node – Tehran held in August 2016 is placed at Annex 3, page 11 of PCSO agenda, giving its vision, mission and objectives, besides presenting the organizational structure, coordination mechanism etc. 13. It has been felt that in order to have proper regional balance at global level, the NCs hosting regional nodes need to be identified and assigned with the task of fostering collaborative activities amongst the NCs within that region by affiliating NCs to the identified regional node with similar AWM challenges. 14. The Council may consider the revised IRPID Scheme that will be presented by VPH Felix Reinders, Chair of Advisory Committee for IRPID (AC-IRPID) and provide further suggestions and guidance to make the IRPID Scheme a globally balanced one in fostering research in irrigation and drainage.


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IEC Agenda Item 9: World Water System Heritage (WSH) Program 15. ICID brought forward the idea of recognizing World Water System Heritage (WSH) as a member initiative at the 50th Board of Governors (BoG) meeting of World Water Council (WWC) in Budapest, Hungary in October 2013. Subsequently, a Task Force, set up by WWC under the chairmanship of President ICID formulated WSH initiative and presented it at the 54th BoG meeting of WWC in April 2015 in Gyeongju, Korea, giving the institutional design, communication strategy, financial aspects and timeline for the launch of the Program.

16. Subsequently, the institutional design for the Program has been put in place with its International Committee (IC) and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) with specific Terms of Reference (ToR) and ICID Central Office has been assigned as its Secretariat. During the 58th BoG meeting of WWC held in Jodhpur, India on 17-18 March 2016, it was approved in principle to launch the Program in November 2016 at Marseilles, during the 20th Anniversary Celebrations of WWC. 17. The WSH program is initiated as a collaborative program for the recognition of WSH as a means for knowledge sharing based on historical expertise for sustainable water management. It aims at identifying, giving recognition and preserving the people-centred water management systems, organizations, regimes and rules as intangible water heritage considered to be of outstanding value to humanity that creates coexistent social system for humanity and sound environment. The objectives of the program are to: (i) Gain/learn lessons from these heritage systems; (ii) Disseminate the age-old wisdom gathered through them; (iii) Extract new ideas from the wisdom aggregated from the past; (iv) Adapt the knowledge suitably in the present context, and (v) Disseminate it.

18. The nominations for WSH have now been invited through the NCs of ICID, ICOLD and UNESCO-IHP to be listed under the WSH Program. The WSH Scheme will be officially launched during the 20th anniversary celebrations of WWC in November 2016 at Marseille, France where the selected water systems will be recognized under the Program. SG will make a brief presentation on the WSH Program bringing out its salient features.

IEC Agenda Item 10: Reports by the Chairs of Permanent Committees IEC Agenda Item 10.1: Permanent Finance Committee (PFC) 19. VPH Laurie Tollefson, Chairman, PFC will present his report on the 37th meeting of the PFC held on 10 November 2016 at Chiang Mai, Thailand from 0900-1230 hours. The agenda of PFC is given at Appendix I, page 21. IEC Agenda Item 10.2: Permanent Committee on Strategy and Organization (PCSO) 20. VPH Huseyin Gundogdu, Chairman, PCSO will present his report on the 27th meeting of PCSO held on 10 November 2016 from 1330-1700 hours. The agenda of PCSO is given at Appendix II, page 35. IEC Agenda Item 10.3: Permanent Committee for Technical Activities (PCTA) 21. VPH Felix Reinders, Chairman, PCTA will present his report on the 36th meeting of PCTA held on 11 November 2016 from 0900-1700 hours. The agenda of PCTA is given at Appendix IX, page 81. IEC Agenda Item 10.4: Discussions and Decisions on the Recommendations of the Permanent

Committees 22. The Council will deliberate on the reports and recommendations of PFC, PCSO and PCTA together in totality and will take decisions through resolutions as appropriate duly taking note of the report of the Secretary General under Agenda Item 6. Draft Resolutions (DRs) on the Financial Matters of ICID presented through PFC Report and on the Organizational and Technical Matters of ICID presented through the Reports of PCSO & PCTA, are placed as DR-1/67, DR-2/67 and DR-3/67 (pages 17, 18 and 19).

Third Session: 12 November 2016, 14:00 – 18:30 hours

IEC Agenda Item 11: ICID Vision 2030 – To Develop an Action Plan 2030 23. The 66th IEC meeting approved the Vision, Mission and six Organizational Goals and requested the Consultative Group (CG) that had been constituted to develop ‘Draft ICID Vision 2030 Document’ to develop an Action Plan 2030 including review of structure and other organizational aspects required to achieve the goals of Vision 2030.


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24. In pursuance of the Council’s decision, CG decided to gather the inputs from ICID Work Bodies to identify actions to achieve the Organizational Goals in their area of activities, and from National Committees to ascertain their needs in order to support them in meeting their national obligations in contributing towards SDGs, particularly those related to AWM. Accordingly, two Questionnaires were developed and circulated among the Chairs of WBs and NCs to gather their inputs and needs which would form part of ICID Action Plan 2030. 25. The Action Plan 2030 thus developed, will be presented to the Council at its meeting in Chiang Mai for its consideration and deliberations and approval.

SUPP: CG Report on Draft ICID Action Plan 2030 is placed at Annex-S4, IEC Supp. Note — page A47.

IEC Agenda Item 12: Task Force on Revitalization of ICID Network 26. In pursuance of the Council’s decision at Montpellier IEC meeting, a Task Force has been set up to study the reasons responsible for the gradual withdrawals of National Committees (NCs) from Europe from the membership of ICID and other issues faced by the NCs, with a broadened scope, under the chairmanship of Chair, PCSO. The TF has been requested to:

Review the interrelationships between ICID, the NCs and the national stakeholders engaged with AWM and the effectiveness of the network in fulfilling the new vision;

Review the role of NCs of ICID vis a vis other professional organizations within the countries in water sector such as country water partnerships;

Take stock of the constitution of various NCs of Europe, and study their financial operational arrangements,

Study the reasons for withdrawal of European NCs from membership of ICID in the recent past and suggest the means of retaining these countries as member of ICID,

Suggest measures for long-term financial sustainability of the NCs, and

Recommend measures for improving the profile of NCs within the countries.

27. The input received from the questionnaire sent by CG for ICID Action Plan 2030 have been used in analyzing the situation in various NCs and the kind of support they need. Vice Presidents of ICID have been involved in the process to undertake specific issues related to each sub-region allocated to them. The Chair of the TF, VPH Huseyin Gundogdu will present his report at the meeting for its consideration and further guidance in revitalizing the ICID Network globally and Europe, in particular.

SUPP: The draft report of TF-REV is placed at S1 (PCSO Supp. Note — page A46) of PCSO Agenda.

IEC Agenda Item 13: Task Force on Annual Membership Subscription Formulae 28. As per the decision of 66th Council meeting in Montpellier last year, a Task Force to Review the Membership Structure and Annual Membership Subscription Formulae has been set up under the chairmanship of Chair, PFC. The TF has been requested to:

Review the existing membership subscription formulae including the annual increase in subscription,

Assess the long-term financial sustainability of the organization, duly recognizing the sources of income and potential program expenditure

Identify resource mobilization opportunities in view of the new Action Plan, and

Propose a new membership structure with special reference to the annual subscription duly considering the long term financial sustainability.

29. The TF has begun its work and its Chair, VPH Laurie Tollefson will present an interim report on the TF activities so far.

SUPP: Since the interim report of TF will be presented at PFC meeting, it will be subsequently presented to IEC as part of PFC report under IEC Agenda Item 10.1.

IEC Agenda Item 14: Technical Support Unit (TSU) – An Update 30. In compliance with the decision taken at the 66th Council meeting (Resolution IEC-3/66, Para 7), a Technical Support Unit (TSU) has been established at ICID Central Office. The establishment of TSU has been notified to NCs on 4 January 2016 vide Notification No.4 of 2016 (Annex 3, page 11), giving its objective, scope, funding and mechanism.


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31. One of the unique feature of the TSU is that it will be a unit with a nucleus located in the Central Office but mainly running on the voluntary contributions from the national experts. Following the notification, the NCs have been requested to nominate experts, giving the terms of reference for engaging them as part of TSU program. The application inviting the nominations from NCs is given at Annex 4, page 13). 32. The Embassy of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPR Korea), in consultation with their Government, requested ICID to send a Team of experts on a fact finding mission to DPRK to understand the irrigation and drainage situation in particular and the water management issues in general so as to support the capacity development in the country for better agriculture water management. Though DPR Korea is not a member of ICID, an ICID Fact Finding Mission (IFFM) led by Er Avinash C Tyagi Secretary General, ICID and experts, Dr Ding Kunlun, Vice President, ICID, China and Mr V.K Agrawal, Consultant, India which visited DPRK from 2nd November

to 8th November 2015. The main objective of IFFM was “To assess capacity development needs for better agriculture water management in DPRK.” The mission presented their report to Embassy of DPR Korea for further action by their Government in the matter. 33. The Council may discuss TSU Program and deliberate on the best ways to operationalize it.

IEC Agenda Item 15: Status of Future ICID Conferences / Congresses / Forums 34. The IEC has so far approved the venues of the following future major ICID events:

13th International Drainage Workshop, Ahvaz City, Khuzestan Province, Iran, 4-7 March 2017

68th IEC and 23rd Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, Mexico City, Mexico, 8-14 October 2017

8th Asian Regional Conference, Nepal, 2018

69th IEC & 5th American Regional Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, 23 – 28 September 2018

9th International Micro Irrigation Conference, Aurangabad, India, 2019 / 2020

35. Representative of IRNCID, MXCID, NENCID, CANCID and INCSW may apprise the Council of developments and progress with regard to the organization of the events, if any, as per ICID By-laws 5.7.1. 36. The National Committees of ICID were invited to submit proposals for hosting the following future ICID events.

27th European Regional Conference (2019 onwards)

70th IEC and 3rd World Irrigation Forum (2019)

71st IEC and 24th Congress on Irrigation and Drainage (2020)

5th African Regional Conference (2020 onwards)

37. In response to the call for nominations, USCID, TANCID and IRNCID have shown interest in hosting the 70th IEC and 3rd World Irrigation Forum in October 2019. However, “Form A” is yet to be submitted by USCID and IRNCID while TANCID has been requested to submit the ‘Form A’ complete with all required information. Representatives of these NCs will present their bids at the Council.

38. Irrigation Australia Ltd. has shown interest in hosting the 71st IEC and 24th ICD Congress on Irrigation and Drainage from 12 May to 18 May 2020. Form A has been submitted by IAL. Representative from IAL will present the bid to the Council.

SUPP: USCID has withdrawn its bid for WIF3 and 70th IEC, citing that the ICID annual events in 2017 and 2018 will be organized in Mexico and Canada, both fall in America region. INACID submitted duly filled in ‘Form A’ while bidding for WIF3 and 70th IEC in 2019 through their e-mail dated 30 September 2016. The INACID representative will present their bid at the Council meeting. IRNCID has also submitted duly filled in ‘Form A’ vide their e-mail dated 19 October 2016.

IEC Agenda Item 16: Election of the Office-Bearers 2016-2019 39. As per Article 7.2.4 of the ICID Constitution, the 3-year term of Office (2013-2016) of the following three Vice Presidents will conclude at the end of the 67th IEC and its adjunct study tours –

Dr. Ir. Basuki Hadimoeljono Indonesia (2013-2016)

Mr. Kadhim Mohsin Ahmed Iraq (2013-2016)


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Er. A.B. Pandya India (2013-2016)

40. In response to the Central Office’s circular inviting nominations for the positions of Vice President for the term 2016-2019, the following nominations were received in the Central Office by the due date of receipt, i.e. 12 July 2016, in compliance with ICID By-laws 2,3,1.

Sl. No.

Nominee Country Date of receipt in the Central Office

Validity

1 Dr. Brian T. Wahlin USA 27 June 2016 Valid

2 Mr. Waseem Nazir Pakistan 1 July 2016 Valid

3 Dr. Irene G. Bondarik Russia 2 July 2016 Valid

4 Mr. Madhav Belbase Nepal 6 July 2016 Valid

IEC Agenda Item 17: Presentation of ICID Plaques to Retiring Vice Presidents and Chairs of

Workbodies IEC Agenda Item 17.1: Retiring Vice Presidents 41. Citation plaques will be presented during the IEC meeting to the following three retiring Vice Presidents for their services and guidance to the ICID activities during their tenure 2013-2016:

Dr. Ir. Basuki Hadimoeljono Indonesia (2013-2016)

Mr. Kadhim Mohsin Ahmed Iraq (2013-2016)

Er. A.B. Pandya India (2013-2016)

IEC Agenda Item 17.2: Retiring Chairs of Workbodies 42. The following retiring Chairpersons of Workbodies will be honoured with the presentation of citation plaques for their commendable guidance to the activities of the concerned workbodies.

VPH Felix B. Reinders (South Africa), Chairman, PCTA (2011-2016)

VPH Dr. Hüseyin Gűndoğdu (Turkey), Chairman, PCSO (2014-2016)

Dr. Sylvain Perret (France), Chairman, WG-ENV (2011-2016)

IEC Agenda Item 18: Any other business by the permission of the Chair

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Annex 1 [IEC Item 5, Para 9]

ACTION TAKEN REPORT ON THE DECISIONS ON THE MINUTES OF 66TH IEC MEETING

S. No.

Item Decisions Action to be Taken

1. Recognition of Heritage Irrigation Structures (HIS)

The Council approved the inclusion of the identified Heritage Irrigation Structures in “ICID Register of Heritage Irrigation Structures”.

Included in the Register maintained at ICID website.

2. Resolution IEC-1/66

(Sr. No.1)

Report PFC (Para 21)

Approved the admission of (i) Md. Samiul Ahsan Talucder (Bangladesh), (ii) Mr. Aytekin Turgay (Turkey), (iii) Prof. Prashanta Kumar Bordoloi (India) and (iv) M/s Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. (India) as Direct Members.

The decision has been communicated to new direct members and certificates have been issued to them.


(Sr. No.2)

Approved the debarring of Czech Republic from participating in elections in accordance with By-law 13.1.

Czech Republic was requested to clear membership subscription for current year and also the arrears for the last three years vide e-mail dated 29 January 2016.


(Sr. No.6)

Approved the appointment of M/s P.K. Chopra & Company as the Statutory Auditor for ICID for the period 2016-18

Issued the letter of appointment.


(Sr. No.7)

Approved setting up of a Task Force to review the membership formulae and propose a new membership structure duly considering the long term financial sustainability of ICID.

Notified the constitution of TF vide Notification No.12 of 2016 dated 21 April 2016.


(Sr. No.1)

Approved the reactivation of the NCs of Sudan and Myanmar as per by-law 13.5.

The decision of IEC has been communicated to respective NCs.


(Sr. No.2)

Approved the setting up of a Technical Support Unit (TSU) in ICID with a core group Chaired by President and consisting of Chair PCSO and PCTA, Chair ASWRG, Chair AFRWG and representatives contributing to the Capacity Development Fund as its members assisted by SG.

Notified the setting up of TSU vide Notification No.1 of 2016 dated 04 January 2016.


(Sr. No.11)

Approved setting up of Task Team to study the reasons responsible for the gradual withdrawals of NCs from Europe from the membership of ICID and other issues faced by these NCs.

Notified the setting up of Task Force on Revitalization of ICID Network vide Notification No.13 of 2016 dated 03 May 2016.


(Sr. Nos.1-3)

Approved (i) the adoption of ICID Vision 2030 and organizational goals, (ii) Vision 2030 be brought out as a communication document and (iv) to develop an Action Plan by CG to achieve the goals of Vision 2030.

CG developed two Questionnaires to seek inputs from PCTA workbodies and NCs to develop an Action Plan 2030.


(Sr. No.1)

Adopted the revised Scheme for Recognition of Heritage Irrigation Structures.

The revised scheme has been included in the Handbook of Procedures and this year, nominations have been invited as per the adopted scheme.

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IMPORTANT DECISIONS TAKEN BY THE

MANAGEMENT BOARD ON BEHALF OF IEC

BETWEEN

66TH IEC MEETING (MONTPELLIER, OCTOBER 2015) AND

67TH IEC MEETING (CHIANG MAI, NOVEMBER 2016)

(And the actions taken thereon)

Decision Request

I. Virtual Management Board Meeting No.1/16, 29 March 2016 (via teleconferencing)

1. MB approved the proposal of Iranian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (IRNCID) to shift the dates for the 13th International Drainage Workshop from 3-6 March to 4-7 March 2017.

Endorsement by IEC is solicited.

2. MB reviewed the budget provision for the Financial Year 2015-16 and expenditure incurred under different items and approved the increase in provision made under item Arrear of Taxes from Rs 8.6 million to Rs 10 million.


II. Virtual Management Board Meeting No.2/16, 17-23 May 2016 (via e-mail exchange)

3. MB approved proposed negotiated rates of subscription for “Irrigation & Drainage” for the year 2017 @ US$ 47 for “Online” and US$ 57 for “Online + Print” for ICID member subscriptions which will be placed before PFC prior to its approval in 67th IEC.


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SETTING UP OF A TECHNICAL SUPPORT UNIT (TSU) AT ICID CENTRAL OFFICE

NOTIFICATION NO.1 OF 2016 Dated: 1 January 2016

In accordance with the decision taken by the 66th International Executive Council (IEC) meeting held at Montpellier, France in October 2015 (Resolution IEC-3/66, Para 7), a Technical Support Unit (TSU) is hereby established at ICID Central Office with the following Objective, Scope, Funding and Mechanism. 1. Objective

“Undertake capacity development activities in the field of agriculture water management (AWM) in support of rural development”.

2. Scope

(a) Coordinate and execute capacity development programs of ICID under the overall guidance of WG-CDTE

and administrative directions of the Core Group;

(b) To liaise in developing a knowledge base in AWM with the help of various ICID working groups, partner institutions and member countries;

(c) To support the member countries in

(i). general assessment of gaps in AWM capacities within the countries and suggest possible ways of filling the gaps;

(ii). training assessment needs;

(iii). undertaking capacity development programmes; and

(iv). support developing feasibility reports for small and medium irrigation, drainage and flood management proposals, on request.

3. Funding: In pursuance of the above decision of IEC, a Capacity Development Fund (CDF) is established in order to ensure smooth functioning of TSU and undertake activities under the Unit. The Fund will be supported by member countries on a voluntary basis.

4. Mechanism: TSU will serve to execute the activities of Working Group on Capacity Development, Training

and Education (WG-CDTE). TSU will consist of distributed network of expert volunteers, who commit to dedicate a maximum of ten man days to the TSU activities. Volunteers, if required to put more than 10 days in a year will be paid a suitable honorarium. The activities will be supported by a Coordination Unit (CU) established within the Central Office that will help in identifying these experts. NCs and other members, including partner institutions, will be requested to depute personnel to the CU of TSU located in Central Office from time to time, as required. The travel of the expert volunteers, if required in connection with TSU activity, will be supported through CDF.

5. Core Group: A Core Group with the following Composition and Terms of Reference (ToR) is also set up:

Composition

(a) President, ICID - Chairman

(b) Chair, PCTA - Member

(c) Chair, PCSO - Member

(d) Chair, AFRWG - Member

(e) Chair, ASRWG - Member

(f) Chair, WG-CDTE, - Member

(g) Secretary General, ICID, - Convener

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In addition, the representatives (maximum two at a time) of Financial Partner contributing to CDF, particularly supporting specific activities, will be co-opted by the President. Terms of Reference (ToR)

(i). Finalize and prioritize the work program of TSU;

(ii). Review and monitor progress of activities of TSU;

(iii). Take administrative and financial decisions regarding the engagement of volunteers and other experts; and

(iv). Support raising resources and take all financial decisions.

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TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR ENGAGING EXPERT FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT UNIT (TSU)

IN ICID CENTRAL OFFICE

Post Title: Expert (Agricultural Water Management)

Duty Station: ICID Central Office, New Delhi, India

Duration: Six months (initially) Terms of Reference (ToR) 1. Background The National Committees of ICID have expressed the need for professional guidance and support from ICID in initiating certain studies and activities. Accordingly, the 66th ICID’s International Executive Council meeting held on 16 October 2015 at Montpellier, France, approved the setting up of a Technical Support Unit in ICID vide IEC Resolution 3/66 keeping in view the need of capacity building, education and awareness of technical staff working in the field of agriculture water management. The objective and scope of activities of TSU are as follows: 1.1. Objective The overall objective is to “Undertake capacity development activities in the field of agriculture water management (AWM) in support of rural development”. 1.2. Scope of Work and Expected Outputs The scope of work and expected outputs / deliverables will be the following

(a) Coordinate capacity development programs of ICID;

(b) To liaise in developing a knowledge base in AWM with the help of ICID working groups, partner institutions and member countries;

(c) To support the member countries in (i) general assessment of gaps in AWM capacities within the countries and suggest possible solutions

(ii) developing feasibility reports for small and medium irrigation, drainage and flood management proposal,

(iii) training assessment needs; and

(iv) undertaking capacity development programmes 2. Deputation of Expert to Technical Support Unit (TSU) As per decision of IEC (Resolution 3/66, TSU is being set up in ICID at its Central Office located in Delhi with deputation of experts on short term on voluntary basis from interested National Committees. Brief description of scope of activities and other terms and conditions is given below: 2.1 Broad scope of deputation of expert to TSU National Committees / Committee are requested to consider deputing their mid-level experts for short term to support activities of TSU on capacity development programme in agricultural water management for least developed countries in Africa and Asia including support to development of proposals for small scale irrigation, flood management and drainage at feasibility level. Broad ToR of experts is given below:

(i) The Expert nominated by the National Committee / Committee to Technical Support Unit (TSU) will be working on voluntary basis for an initial period of six months.

(ii) Expert should be professionally qualified in the field of Agricultural or Water Resources Engineering, preferably, post-graduate


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(iii) At least 10 years work experience in dealing with agricultural and water management issues having experience in the areas of research, capacity development, training, project planning and development etc.

(iv) The Expert should be in the age group of 40 to 50 years of age.

(v) The Expert should be fluent in Spoken and Written English and computer savvy. 2.2 Financial aspects The Sponsorship Organization has to bear all the financial expenses of the expert in terms of salary and allowance, travel expenses, per diem, accommodation, local transport, insurance etc., to undertake the assignment. However, ICID will pay a honorarium of Rs.10,000/- (US $ 150) {as per Government of India norms} per month. 2.3 Documents While deputing expert to TSU, the National Committee may kindly furnish Curriculum Vitaé (CV) of the applicant along with the following documents:

(a) Educational qualification (b) Experience profile (c) Copy of passport

The condition for grant of visa for working in India for NGOs and other organizations is available at: http://mha1.nic.in/foreigDiv/OverviewVisa.html

http://mha1.nic.in/foreigDiv/OverviewVisa.html


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TECHNICAL SUPPORT UNIT IN ICID CENTRAL OFFICE

APPLICATION FORM

A. Applicant’s personal and experience details

1. Personal Information

Name

Position

Organization / Department

Gender

Date of birth: Day Month Year

Nationality

Contact details including e-mail

Passport Details (attach a copy)

Number Validity Issuing authority

2. Educational background and experience (Attach brief CV):

i. Degree & above:

ii. Brief details of experience in the field of agricultural water management, flood management, drought and related areas with expertise in research, capacity development, training, project planning and development, (use separate sheet, if required.):

iii. Specify experience on development of proposals for small scale irrigation, flood management and drainage at feasibility level, if any:

iv. Experience of working in least developed countries in Africa and Asia, if any:

3. Other details (please specify):

Fair Good Excellent

i. Knowledge of English

Spoken

Written


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ii. Are you willing to work in least developed countries of Africa and Asia on short term basis?

Date: ____________ Signature: ________________

B. Recommendation by Sponsoring Organisation

Mr. / Mrs. ______________________________ is sponsored to work in Technical Support Unit of ICID, New Delhi. This is to certify that the above information is correct best to our knowledge. We undertake to bear all financial expenses of the expert in terms of salary and allowance, travel expenses, per diem, accommodation, local transport, insurance etc. to undertake the assignment.

Name of the person

Position

Name of Sponsoring Organization

Date: ____________ Signature: __________________ C. Recommendation by the ICID National Committee

Mr. / Mrs. __________________________ is recommended to work in Technical Support Unit of ICID, New Delhi.

Name of the person

Position

Name of National Committee

Date: ____________ Signature: __________________

Agenda for the 67th IEC Meeting (Ver. Dated 2016-10-04) IEC – Draft Resolutions

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DR-1/67 [IEC Item 10.4, Para 22]

INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (IEC)

DRAFT RESOLUTION IEC-1/67: FINANCIAL MATTERS OF ICID

THE Council Accepting the Report of the Chair of the Permanent Finance Committee;

Noting further the report of the Statutory Auditors M/s. P.K. Chopra and Company; and

Considering the recommendation of the Management Board;

Decides Unanimously

1. To approve the nominations of Mr.__________________ and Ms. ___________________ to the membership of PFC.

2. That the persons, institutions and companies accorded the provisional membership by the Direct Membership Administering Sub-Committee be admitted as members of ICID for the periods for which they have paid subscription.

3. That the National Committees of ___ and ____ be declared as “Associate Member” from 1 January 2017 as they have failed to contribute ICID subscription for last three years in accordance with By-law 13.2.

4. To approve admission of Somalia as a member of ICID in accordance with ICID By-law 9 governing application for membership.

5. To approve the Audited Accounts of ICID for the Financial Year 2015-16 as given in Annex 2 of PFC Agenda, page 33.

6. To approve the Revised Budget of ICID for the Financial Year 2016-17 and the Budget for the financial year 2017-18 as given in Annex 2 of PFC Agenda, page 33

7. To approve the Registration Fee Structure for the ____________ and _____________ meetings.

8. …...

9. ……

Appreciates

1. The NC of France for contributing the appropriate share of the registration fee for the 26th ERC and 66th IEC to the ICID Budget.

2. The Ministry of Water Resources, People’s Republic of China for providing a grant of US$ ________ for carrying out various ICID activities during the Financial Year 2015-16.

3. The Korean Rural Community Corporation (KRC), World Meteorological Organization and African Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) for supporting participation of Young Professional in various activities of ICID.

Requests

1. ….……..

2. ….……..

3. …………


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DRAFT RESOLUTION IEC-2/67: ORGANISATIONAL AND TECHNICAL MATTERS OF ICID THE Council Accepting the reports and recommendations of the Chairs of the Permanent Committees on Strategy & Organization and Technical Activities;

Considering the endorsement by the Management Board; and

Decides unanimously

1. To approve the membership changes of various work bodies of PCTA and PCSO (to be prepared as an outcome of PCTA and PCSO recommendations).

2. To accept the Report of the Sub-Committee on Themes, Topics and Work Plans of Future ICID Events (SC-E-THEMES) and decides to fix the broad topics and work plans for these events presented by the Task Team.

3. To approve hosting of the Secretariat for World Water System Heritage program being implemented in collaboration with World Water Council and other international partners.

4. To approve the new/existing workbodies with revised mandate on the topics under thematic area of Basin:

(i) Task Force for Updation and Maintenance of Multilingual Technical Dictionary (TF-MTD)

(ii) Working Group on Adaptive Management in Water Stressed Regions (WG-AMWSR)

(iii) Working Group on Water for Bio-Energy and Food (WG-BIO-ENERGY); and

(iv) ……………………………………………………………………………………………..

5. To approve the closure of WGs on CAFM, TF-VE…………….. and …………

6. To extend the tenures of WGs on ……………………….. and ………………….

7. To approve the proposal of NENCID to host the 8th Asian Regional Conference from 22-26 Mach 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal; …… proposal to host 3rd World Irrigation Forum and 70th IEC Meeting in 2019 in ….; and the proposal of AUSID to host 24th ICID Congress and 71st IEC meeting in 2020.

8. ……….

Appreciates

1. The Korean Rural Community Corporation (KRC) to support the activity of TSU and providing funds for undertaking the activity in North Korea.

Requests

2. National Committees to contribute towards the Fund created for undertaking activities of the Technical Support Unit (TSU) and take full advantage of its establishment of the Unit. Urges NCs to depute volunteers from time to time to undertake the activities of TSU.


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DRAFT RESOLUTION IEC-3/67: REVISED INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE (IRPID) SCHEME

THE Council Considering the Report of the Advisory Committee on IRPID (AC-IRPID) set up by the MB as part of the IRPID Scheme notified in April 2016 and in view of the inputs received from the regional nodes of IRPID, Noting the endorsement of the Management Board and recommendations of PCSO and PCTA, Decides unanimously

1. To adopt the Scheme for International Research Program for Irrigation and Drainage (IRPID) as given in Annex 3 of PCSO Agenda, page 43.

2.

3.


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Agenda for the 67th IEC Meeting (Ver. Dated 2016-10-24) Presentation by SLNCID

Annex S1 IEC Supp. Note — A19

Annex S1

WATER MANAGEMENT, IRRIGATION AND FLOOD MANAGEMENT IN SRI LANKA

Background of the country Sri Lanka is an island located in the southern tip of India, having a total area of about 65,610 km2 and it is located in close proximity to the equator. According to the estimation of 2012, the population of Sri Lanka was 20.36 million (Department of Census & Statistics, 2013). Population increase in the recent years has ranged between 1.4% and 1.15%, with a threshold of 23 million as the expected population to be reached by 2025. Sri Lanka experiences a tropical monsoon climate. According to the rainfall distribution pattern, the country is classified into three climatic zones called wet, dry and intermediate zones. The wet zone gets an average annual rainfall of over 2500 mm and dry zone gets an average annual rainfall of less than 1750 mm, while the intermediate zone receives a rainfall in between 1750 mm to 2500 mm (See Figure 1).

Figure 1: Climatic Zones of Sri Lanka According to the monsoon pattern, we are blessed with two main monsoon seasons and two inter-monsoon seasons (See table 1). These monsoon seasons do not provide equal rainfall regimes over the country.

Table 1: Average Annual Rainfall 1

Season Period Average Rainfall mm

% of Annual Total

First Inter - Monson (FIM) March - April 268 14

South West Monsoon (SWM) May - September 556 30

Second Inter - Monson (SIM) October - November 558 30

North East Monsoon (NEM) December - February 479 26



As a result, island has 46 different agro-ecological regions differentiated by monthly rainfall distribution, soil type, land use, vegetation and elevation. The major rainfall seasons (SW & NE) frame two major cultivation seasons called Maha & Yala. Maha is the major cultivation season of the country which spans from October to February. Generally, the dry zone gets NEM rains, FIM rains and parts of SWM and SIM which is the agricultural heartland of the country. To cope with this unequal distribution throughout the year in the dry zone, several types of diversions and storage systems were introduced since the time of ancient kings. These include reservoirs, diversion canals and anicut systems. Wet zone receives rain from all four monsoons therefore diversion canals and anicuts are available in wet zone. It is estimated that about 20-25% of the annual water resources are developed and utilized to meet various human needs such as agriculture, hydro power, domestic and industrial needs, wild life and environment. Water extractions for agriculture, industries and domestic needs are estimated as 70%, 20% and 10% of the developed water resources respectively. Out of the available 0.9 million ha lands, 0.75 million ha is used for paddy cultivation. The relatively small land owners contributing for this 0.75 million ha have an average of 0.5 ha land each. Other field crops such as maize, green gram, finger millets, black gram, cowpea, soya beans, gingerly, chilies, potatoes and big onions are grown in uplands in both seasons and low lands in yala season. Water Resources in Sri Lanka Annual water resources of Sri Lanka are estimated at 45 km3 of the surface water in the country. 103 distinct river basins are available in country which flow through the wet and dry zones. Rivers in wet zone are perineal and carry nearly 50% of surface runoff. There are 73 Major reservoirs and 160 medium reservoirs which are managed by the Irrigation Department (ID) where 14,000 minor tanks are managed by the Department of Agrarian Services Department (DAD) and Provincial Councils. 7 Multipurpose reservoirs and 7 major reservoirs in Mahaweli basin and Walawe basin are managed by the Mahaweli Authority Sri Lanka (MASL). 7 Hydropower reservoirs in Kelani and Kalu basins are managed by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). 2 medium reservoirs in Kelani basin are managed by the National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB). Most of the reservoirs have been constructed during Sinhalese Kings’ period and rehabilitated and augmented by irrigation Department during last 115 years from time to time. The groundwater resources are considered to be lesser compared to surface water resources. Seven main types of groundwater aquifers have been identified. The estimated groundwater potential is 7,800 MCM per annum. Both the quantity and quality issues limit the use of groundwater. It is widely used for domestic, small scale irrigation, industrial and other uses. According to the above-mentioned estimate, the present per capita water availability is about 2,300 m3 per year. It is forecasted to be reduced to about 1,900 m3 per year in 2025 with population growth, increase of demands among sectors. Water Management According to the monsoon pattern in Sri Lanka, conservation of water in the dry zone has been achieved in two stages.

1. Construction of earth dam at a suitable location to arrest and impound the surface run-off water over the catchment area. Stored water is distributed by gravity through a controlled sluice across the dam to paddy fields.

2. Diversion of water by means of construction of anicut or weir across the perennial river. The technique of diversion is to raise the water level in the river by means of an anicut or weir construct across the river at a suitable location and divert water by construction of canal across the banks of the river. The water is diverted through a canal and directly utilized for cultivation. The river flow is seasonal the diverted water through the canal to feed the tank.

The seasonality of monsoonal rains has resulted in two paddy cultivation seasons called yala & maha. Before the commencement of cultivation season, the water users meet and decide on a time table for cultivation by considering availability of water in the tanks and inflows from the rains. Water issue calendar and water distribution schedule is prepared by officer in-charge of the scheme. Head works and main canals are operated and maintained by the relevant agency and sub system such as distribution canals and field canals are operated and maintained by the farmers.



Developing Irrigation sector To increase the productivity of irrigation scheme through agricultural production by improved management of available resources, irrigation system efficiency is to be kept at a higher level to assure a reliable water supply while paying more attention to the land management practices and crop management practices. Since 1970s the government gave its high priority to the irrigated agriculture sector and actions were taken to provide both local and foreign funds to start new irrigation projects, improve and rehabilitate existing irrigation schemes mostly situated in the dry and intermediate zones in Sri Lanka. However, with the changes in the national economy and due to other constraints few irrigation schemes were not considered yet for rehabilitation work during the last four decades and now most of the irrigation facilities are in dilapidated conditions having very poor efficiency levels within the systems. Modern irrigation technological approaches were not introduced to those schemes and still they function with old water distribution system having poor operational performances. Though there were some irrigation schemes provided with some advanced technology made on improved and upgraded irrigation infrastructure, plant protection and fertilization, the weather and climate changes have become the key factors of agricultural productivity. Water supply in irrigation schemes and their agronomic practices are becoming vulnerable in situations in aspects such as crop yield, income, living standard, social harmony and etc. with the prevailing conditions of all climatic regions of the island. Inheritance knowledge, practices and experiences of farmers are no longer valid for the seasonal planning under these situations. Country’s climate has significantly changed with time during last two decades and expected rainfall does not come at the correct time mainly in two bimodal monsoons expected by the farmers to start their cultivation in Yala and Maha seasons. Increasing the efficiency of water use and enhancing land productivity are the most economical solutions to address the prevailing issues to maintain sustainability of schemes. Water-related disasters and their management: Traditionally, several Wet Zone river basins were classified as flood-prone, and Dry Zone river basins as drought-prone. However, an increasing incidence of floods in the Dry Zone is observed in the recent past. In the recent years Sri Lanka, particularly the Dry Zone, experienced a cycle of alternating droughts and floods. The drought of 2012 has been one of the worst in past 20 years and substantially affected crop production (CBSL, 2012). But in early 2013 many of the areas that were affected previously by the drought were experiencing floods. In 2014, again drought affected over 1.5 million people mainly in the Dry Zone. Assessments showed that more than 50% of these affected population were food insecure with low coping capacity, and had to resort to limiting meal portions, restricting adult meal consumptions and reducing the number of meals taken in a day. About 60,000 people urgently needed the provision of drinking water (Nandy, 2014). Heavy floods in November 2014 to January 2015 subsequently impacted the same districts affecting about one million people. The trend continued in 2015 with high rainfall resulting in localized floods, especially in the Dry Zone (DMC, 2016). Statistics maintained by the Department of Agrarian Development shows a large number of irrigation facilities being destroyed due to floods in the Dry Zone from 2011 onwards.

Figure 2: During Flood in Ampara & Anuradhapura Districts



Similarly, Dry Zone farmers have traditionally coped with drought and water deficiencies by building storage reservoirs to cultivate the dry season and ensure sufficient ground water recharge, farmer-managed arrangements to share land during droughts, and sharing water among different users. Village irrigation systems are perceived as one of the most appropriate adaptation strategies for climate variability and change in the Dry zone (Abeysekera et al, 2015). Floods Floods are the most destructive form of natural hazards in both local and global situations. It is clear in terms of crop damages, property damages and loss of life which finally ends up with economic lost and environment lost. In Sri Lanka, floods are common than any other natural hazard. Flooding can be defined as the temporary inundation of an area of land, which otherwise is not usually under water. Physically flooding can result when the total inflow of water to a locality becomes higher than the total outflow. The inflow may be caused by runoff from rainfall or discharge from a reservoir or river. Depending on the type of flood, losses can be numerous or few. Economic damage happens irrespective of the nature and the magnitude of flood. It can be direct damage, such as destruction of property or loss of cultivation, or indirect or intangible damage such as spread of disease or disruption of social life. Floods replenish groundwater aquifers and sustain groundwater supplies. Floods help to maintain wetland systems, which play a vital role in ecology, providing rich habitats. Floods have helped to keep the flood plains fertile by depositing rich silt on the riparian lands. Without the buildup of these alluvial deposits, riparian cultivators would have to spend significant amounts on chemical fertilizers for their lands. Floods are generally critical from May to July in Wet Zone of the country and from November to January in Dry zone of the country. There are three types of floods mainly affects in country.

Riverine floods; river floods where river reaches its flood stage that water can rise and spill over the banks of river.

1. Urban floods; these types of floods are happening in a relatively short period of time and can inundate an

area with a several feet of water.

2. Reservoir induced floods; these types of floods occur at the downstream of a reservoir due to spillage of reservoir at high rains which are classified as reservoir induced floods

Flood Management Programme Out of the 103 river basins, 19 have been identified as critical, due to being longer than 100km with a basin area of 1,000 Km2 or more, for flood mitigation and prevention.

Figure 3: Identified Critical River Basins



The river basins that were identified as critical are located in areas where there is rapid development resulting in the change of land use pattern, reduction of the surrounding forest and low land areas and permeable areas. As a result, surface runoff has increased where excess water flows to the sea without being utilized productively. This event has the potential to create floods, deluge a large area, because server damages to crops and properties. As stated earlier, spillage of reservoirs would cause severe floods in downstream and causing damages to human lives and valuable properties. In addition, huge damages can be occurred to paddy cultivation and infrastructures and irrigable area. Therefore, managing reservoirs floods are of utmost important to ID, MASL, CEB and NWSDB where following constrains are observed.

1. High Intensity rains due to effects of climate change and available spill capacities are not enough to cater present floods

2. Canal capacities of spill tail canals are not enough to cater floods and encroachment

3. Un authorized construction

4. Lack of improved drainage systems

5. Lot of minor tanks in upper water being shed without being properly maintained and breaching during floods

6. Large trees, culverts, causeways disturb to flood flows

7. Deforestation and changing land use patterns

8. Urbanization (Department of Census & Statistics , 2013)

Figure 4 : Flood Damages Flood Forecasting Irrigation Department is responsible for flood forecasting and issuing early warnings to general public to safeguard and evacuate from riverine floods and reservoir induced floods. Irrigation Department currently maintains 32 permanent river gauging stations (See figure 4) at critical locations of rivers of the country. It is intended to increase 122 permanent weather stations at critical river basins and reservoirs under World Bank Funded Dam Safety and Water Resources Planning Project (DSWRPP). Water levels, rainfall data of these locations are being transmitted online. These all river gauges have been calibrated referring the flood situation of the relevant flood plain as follows.

1. Flood alert level

2. Minor flood level

3. Dangerous flood level

4. Critical flood level

The river stages and the rainfall of key stations of these rivers are monitored continuously (3 times per day even during non-working days) from Hydrology Division of Head office Colombo.

When excessive rainfall occurs and if the river stages are closer to the minor flood level special Flood Monitoring Unit is organized in Head office to monitor water levels in every hour, day and night continuously until the bad weather condition is cleared.

Prior flood warnings are issued from the head office to the relevant parties to take appropriate mitigation and adaptation measures.

Special attention is drawn to Kelani, Kalu, Gin, Nilwala four river basins to establish river gauge stations at all key points of them.



Provided CDMA telephones to all these stations to be connected to Hydrology Division of Head office to enable on time data transfer.

The data is processed at Hydrology Division of Head office and conveyed forecasting to the required parties with a least time lag

Gauge stations are manned by Irrigation Department permanent employees day and night, 365 days of the year.

Department of Meteorology is consulted for the next 24 hour forecast of rainfall and to get necessary rainfall data from their stations

Figure 5: Permanent Weather Stations located in river Basins & Reservoirs under Dam Safety & Water Resources Planning Project (DSWRP)

The water levels of all the major reservoirs managed by ID are daily monitored by staff of respective DIE division and reported to respective District Director and Water Management division in Head office daily. If water level of any reservoir is closing to spill level, then steps are taken to closely monitor such reservoir. Flood Monitoring Committee Irrigation Department flood monitoring committee is under the guidance of Director General of Irrigation and supervised by Addition Director General (System Management). Flood monitoring committee consists of Director of Irrigation (Assets Management / Hydrology / Water Management / Drainage, Flood Studies, and Disaster Management) Emergency operation Room is functioning round the clock with participation of officers from Flood Monitoring Committee and their representatives. Climate Change A considerable number of recent studies (Jayatillake et al, 2005, Abeysekara et al, 2015, Premalal and Punyawardena, 2013) show that temperatures in Sri Lanka shows an increasing trend, and this will correspondingly increase potential evapotranspiration. Long-term trends of heavy rainfall events appear to be not statistically significant (Premalal and Punyawardena, 2013). However, Abeysekera et al (2015) note an increasing trend of extreme positive rainfall anomalies during SWM and NEM seasons during the period 2010-2014 and emphasize the need to pay attention to this trend in the context of crop production in the Dry zone.



Trend analysis of temperature recorded in Sri Lanka shows that both day time maximum and night time minimum temperature are significantly increased at a rate of 0.01 to 0.03 0C per year (Premalal and Punyawardena, 2013). Although total annual rainfall (past 10 years compared to the 30-year average) remains steady (Punyawardena et al, 2014), the variability of the monsoon, including seasonal onset and duration has been increasing. This is particularly true for the North East Monsoon (Climate Change Secretariat and ADB, 2010) which supports agriculture in dry zone and where extreme weather events are now more frequent and severe. As Sri Lankan scientists have proved that our climate is changing, and will continue to change throughout the 21st century and beyond, rising temperatures, frequent and intense occurrences of extreme rainfall events such as droughts and floods as a consequence will have a significant bearing on our paddy ecosystems in different agro-ecological regions of the country (Punyawardena B V R 2015). These examples show the importance of accurate climate change predictions for sustainable water resources planning and management. It is evident that studying the past trends alone is not sufficient because projecting the trends assume the conditions of the past will apply for the future as well. Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation Measures and Strategies Mitigation and Adaptation are the key activities that can be taken for facing the adverse effects of climate change. Climate change adaptation is widely defined as actions taken to moderate, cope or take advantage of experienced or anticipated changes in climate. Adverse effects of climate change are becoming more frequent and intense where all countries are facing increased climate risks and adaptation needs. Sri Lanka also has to face this situation and must take prompt action then and there to meet the challenges prevailing at present due to floods and drought; they affect much on irrigated agriculture sector in the country. Adaptation measures are required to address the potential impact of climate change. Proper adaptation can prevent losses and damages. While preparing adaptation INDCs in Sri Lanka, Ministry of Irrigation and water Resources management also have contributed to finalize the adaptation targets such as;

1. Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into national planning and development

2. Enabling climate resilient and healthy human settlement

3. Minimizing climate change impact on domestic needs and sanitation

4. Minimizing climate change impact on food security

5. Improving climate resilience of key economic drivers

6. Safeguarding natural resources and biodiversity from climate change impact Focusing on the most vulnerable eight sectors that are having adverse effects of climate change such as health, food security (agriculture, livestock and fisheries), water, irrigation, electricity, coastal and marine, Biodiversity, Tourism and recreation and urban, city planning and human settlements, action will be taken to formulate the project activities under this project paying due attention to the precautionary actions identified as solutions. Impact on Water Resources and Food Security due to Climate Change and possible Precautions Prolonged droughts and flash floods that were occurred continuously during past five years made the adverse impacts to the irrigation schemes and food production in the country. Though the rice production has come up to a self-sufficiency level, other grain foods and vegetable requirements have not increased to meet the demand and government imports such foods from other countries. However, government is still attending to rectify and renovate the flood damage repairs occurred but due to the fund limitations considerable amount of work has remained. Therefore, there is a need to attend for solving problems in irrigated agriculture sector to minimize the damages that would happened due to the future climate change events. In order to meet the climate change impacts especially in the irrigated agriculture sector, following activities have been identified under water sector such as;

1. Increase water use efficiencies in existing irrigation schemes through proper water management

practices

2. Increase the land productivity per unit area of land in irrigated agriculture sector

3. Prevention of saline water intrusion along rivers and stream which disturb to the intakes of drinking water supply schemes.

4. Climate resilience improvements for irrigation systems including dam safety and social safety

5. New water supply projects and schemes will be identified and implemented in the water scarcity areas.

6. Assess the water scarcity areas of the country and prepare maps



7. Exploration of new water sources, identify alternative sources, Implementation of schemes, Designing quantification, qualitative analysis etc.

8. Water safety Management Plans for entire Sri Lanka to overcome pollution and climate change issues.

i. Introduce modern techniques & management plans on water management and climate change

9. Improve protection and conservation measures in all drinking water catchment areas.

i. Establish surface & ground water monitoring Networks Island wide for long term monitoring of water levels flow patterns, water quality

10. Enforcement of laws & Regulations

11. Identification of safe and sustainable water sources qualitatively & other alternatives such as desalinization

12. A few mobile laboratories to be established ensure safety during water supply.

13. Introducing new management system focusing community, awareness programs and water supply plan. Climate Change Adaptation Strategies – Structural and Non-structural Having considered climate change adaptation measures in the water resources sector, there is a need to give high priority find out the solutions for irrigated agriculture sector as it is the highest water consumer amongst the water uses in any country. As per the recommendations of researchers, there are several technical strategies proposed such as introducing high efficiency micro irrigation systems, expanding the rainwater harvesting mechanisms, repair and rehabilitation of irrigation tanks and canals and reuse of drainage water etc. Other than those recommendations, methods include to transform annual crop cultivation in uplands to perennial fruit crop cultivation based on the agro-ecological suitability, promoting on-farm soil moisture conservation measures, use of tail water recovery for lift irrigation etc. Further to that, it is highly recommended and advised to improve the water use and conveyance efficiency of the existing irrigation systems. Improving the facility for increasing ground water recharge is another important even that can be made during the longer wet periods due to the continuous rains. This will improve the yield of both shallow wells and deep wells. In order to face the threats due to water stresses and temperature increases there is a need to breeding for short term crop varieties that can withstand the droughts, high temperature, pest attacks, diseases and salinity hazards through research and developments along with soil stabilization by introducing organic manure and soil test based fertilizer applications. As nonstructural adaptations, change of attitudes of all citizens towards proper water usage and management are needed in every sector. As these changes cannot be reversed due to its natural sequences action has to be taken to minimize the vulnerable areas by giving continuous awareness to the farmers and other stake holders with respect to the water saving under each usage. Some traditions and customs relate with the environment, water and agriculture in the history revealed that there are some opportunities those can be adapted even now as climate change adaptation measures in the agriculture sector they are not new to the present day farmers. Climate Resilience Improvement Project The Project Development Objective is to reduce the vulnerability of exposed people and assets to climate risk (hydro meteorological risks: flood, drought and landslide) and to improve Government's capacity to respond effectively to disasters. Climate Resilience Improvement Project - Project Components The project is mainly focused to establish a process that would built a more climatic resilient economy since current understanding of multispectral impacts of climate and flood & drought modeling and scenario analysis are not adequate at present. In addition, project supports to implement urgent climate mitigation investments required to ensure the short-term integrity of flood control and irrigation infrastructure, transport network and critical education facilities at risk.



Therefore, project Development objectives will be achieved through evidence based investment of project funds for the following two project components;

1 Development of basin investment plans

2 Increase climate resilience of infrastructure Project component 1 focuses on analytical activities and long term development planning while Component 2 addresses urgent rehabilitation investment to increase resilience to climate risk. Under component 1 project supports to detail modeling of flood and drought risk in ten basins to develop comprehensive basin wide investment plans (over US$ 1 billion investment plans) that incorporate competing risks of both flood and drought. The analytical work under this component will serve as a basis for future climate resilience investments and will help the GOSL to understand risk and adopt the required risk mitigation measures. Eng. T.J. Meegastenna Secretary (Sri Lanka National Committee of ICID) Director of Irrigation (Drainage & Flood Systems) Deputy Project Director (Climate Resilience Improvement Project) [email protected] / [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



References

1. Department of Census & Statistics 2013

2. Punyawardena B V R 2015, Effect of climate change on paddy ecosystem, INWEAP seminar, Daily News

3. Premalal KHMS and Punyawardena B V R 2013. Occurrence of extreme climate events in Sri Lanka

4. Punyawardena B V R et al. Spatial Analyses of Climate Change in Sri Lanka

5. National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan 2010 -2016, Climate Change Secretariat and ADB 2010.

6. Punyawardena B V R 2015, Effect of climate change on paddy ecosystem, INWEAP seminar, Daily News

7. 7. Abeysekara, A.B., Punyawardena, B.V.R. and Premalal, K.H.M.S. 2015. Recent trends of extreme positive rainfall anomalies in the Dry zone of Sri Lanka. Annals of the Sri Lanka Department of Agriculture, 17: 1-4

8. Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Annual Report 2012

9. Jayatillake, H.M., Chandrapala, L., Basnayake, B.R.S.B. and Dharmaratne, G.H.P. (2005), Water Resources and climate change Proceedings Workshop on Sri Lanka National Water Development Report, eds. Wijesekera, N.T.S., Imbulana, K.A.U.S., and Neupane, B., World Water Assessment Programme. Paris, France

10. Nandy, S. 2014. Resident / Humanitarian Coordinator Report on the Use of Cerf Funds, Sri Lanka, Rapid Response, and Drought. United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund. https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/CERF/HCRCReports/SriLankaRCHCReport2014-RR-LKA-001.pdf

11. Premalal, K.H.M.S. and Punyawardena B.V.R 2013. Occurrence of extreme climatic events in Sri Lanka. In: Gunasena HPM, Gunathilake HAJ, Everard JMDT, Ranasinghe CS and Nainanayake AD, Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations for Food and Environment Security. Hotel Renuka, Colombo, pp 49-57

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Annex S2

Agenda for the 67th IEC Meeting (Ver. Dated 2016-10-25) Presentation by VP Bonghoon Lee


Annex S3

PRESENTATION ON STRATEGY THEME “ON-FARM” Bonghoon Lee (Co-Theme Leader)

Vice President, ICID and Chairman, KCID I. Background

Agriculture faces complex challenges in the near future between now and 2050 to satisfy an estimated population of nine billion. According to the UN statistics, World population is growing by 80 million people per year and expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. Population growth, urbanization, industrialization, and increases in production and consumption have all generated ever-increasing for freshwater.

By 2030, the world is predicted to face a 40% global water deficit. Competing demand increases the risk of localized conflicts and will lead to increasingly difficult allocation decisions and limit the expansion of sectors critical to sustainable development.

Climate change will exacerbate the risks associated with variations in the distribution and availability of water resources. Climate change will lead to more frequent and intense weather extreme events like droughts and floods, with devastating impacts on food production systems. Sound water management is essential for building societal resilience against such increased risks.

International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) has contributed to enhance the global production of food and serials by improving water management and the productivity of irrigated and drained lands through appropriate management of water, environment, and application of irrigation, drainage, and relevant experiences and technologies. To realize ICID’s missions, the technical activities of the ICID are organized under four strategy themes: ON-FARM, SCHEMES, BASIN, and KNOWLEDGE. The Working Groups (WGs) under the On-Farm theme deals with the application of water at the farm level and the best way to use it to increase the productivity and impacts of application of irrigation water including its quality at the farm level. The WGs falling within the theme Scheme address various aspects of delivery of water from the source to the farm level including the planning, development and management.

II. Review on Strategy Theme On-Farm

The technical activities of ICID are organized under four Strategy Themes: ON-FARM, SCHEME, BASIN, and KNOWLEDGE. Each Strategy Theme comprises WGs or Task Forces (TFs) as work bodies. The topics to be addressed under each theme are as follows:

1. KNOWLEDGE: (a) Training, research, technology transfer, publications; (b) Flood management

2. BASIN: (a) Policy/planning framework, economic and legal issues, institutional aspects; (b) Water and soil resources management, environment, sustainable development.

3. SCHEME: (a) Institutional & Organizational aspects; (b) Revitalization, modernization, development and management with sustainability, and water saving in irrigation

4. ON-FARM: (a) Irrigation management and farming techniques; (b) Drainage management and farming techniques in the catchment.

Strategy Theme ON-FARM consists of three WGs: Working Group on Water and Crops (WG-CROP); Working Group on Sustainable On-Farm Irrigation System Development (WG-SON-FARM); and Working Group on Use of Poor Quality Water for Irrigation (WG-PQW).

These three WGs have worked and contributed actively in accordance with ICID’s mandates and roles. In various publication with useful data bound contributed to accumulate technologies on irrigation and drainage, and abundant theses and papers reflecting NCs characteristics are presented. The WGs have promoted mutual cooperation, dissemination, and sharing experiences and technologies, and reviews on previous activities. However, they have faced challenges while the participants have decreased and their actions have gradually been undertone. The WGs’ action and participation can be activated if various works of NCs can derive many experts attention through productive actions.

WG-ON-FARM

The mandates of ON-FARM are as follows: On-farm irrigation structures and water distribution system networks are properly designed, installed, managed and maintained; Soil moisture is monitored, technical and management measures for enhancing the water infiltration and retention capacities of soils are investigated and implemented;



Trade-offs among on-farm irrigation technologies, socio-economic and environmental benefits are optimized; Innovative local institutional arrangements are developed and promoted for operation and maintenance; and Top-notch scientific and development relevant research is conducted and its results are translated into actionable recommendations.

Finalizing eighteen years of its working term since 1998, WG-ON-FARM is preparing closure report on finalizing its work for seventeen years as WG-ON-FARM. It starts the new history as WG-SON-FARM in 2016. On that account WG-ON-FARM has worked successfully, it won the Best Performing Work body Award in 2014.

On-farm irrigation circumstance of member countries may vary In accordance with various factors, such as: weather; geographical and geological consideration; and quantity of available water resources. Especially in Asia and Africa, for instance, Pressured irrigation system, such as sprinkler or drip irrigation cannot be adopted to replace traditional flood-based farming system (FBFS) because of the limitation of investment financing. In this regard, proper research will be necessary to improve efficiency on traditional water management.

WG-PQW

The mandates of WG-PQW are as follows: To promote a safe and good management of poor quality water for irrigation; To minimize the negative impact on human health and the environment; To promote the multiple use of poor quality water; and To give consideration to the Institutional and legislation aspects with regard to the use of poor quality waters.

It is one of the most important tasks to all countries to secure sufficient amount of water in good quality, under the situation with which the competition on water use is gradually becoming a serious concern. WG-PQW is still facing challenges to adopting new technologies to the field, nevertheless the various accumulated research achievement and experience. Because installation and operation of the plant to treat poor quality water cost need a lot of financial resources, eco-friendly and cost-effective method of treatment is necessary in accordance with local geographic and economic situation.

As the working term of WG-PQW started in 1995 will be expired 2016, it plans to start the new chapter with new mandates out of renewed scoping documents. WG-PQW jointly hosted “Round Table Discussion on the reuse of treated sewage water” with ‘Association Française pour l'Etude des Irrigations et du Drainage (AFEID)’ side at Montpellier France in 2015.

WG-CROP

The mandates of WG-CROP are as follows: To promote the efficient use of water in crop production; To provide input to test crop water models; To investigate the use of energy crops for biofuel production; To develop techniques for rainfall harvesting; To promote the multi-functionality of water use in paddy rice cultivation; To investigate the adaptation of agriculture to climate change; and To promote low input agriculture.

WG-CROP is planning to publish a technical report on multi-functionality of water use in paddy cultivation through in-depth research and discussion, as well as expecting publication on various topics, such as: crop water models; rainfall harvesting; energy crop; and etc. The WG hold an ‘International Workshop on Precision Irrigation for Sustainable Crop Production’ in terms of following themes at Montpellier France in 2015. As the WG’s working term will be expired by 2016, it is to be requested to extend the term through discussion among members. In terms of its main working scope and name, it is planned to change its name as WG-WATER&CROPS. The WG is facing challenge due to the members’ inactive participation. One of the reasons would presumably be the heavy burden on annual registration fee, which ICID is necessary to set a counterplan.

III. Vision and Future Direction

The function and role of the government on development and use of water would be different in each member country. In terms of organizations for water, in general, there are tentatively two different situations: 1) There is an exclusive organization which has full responsibility and authority; and 2) Various stakeholders share water management in terms of multiple purposes on water development and use. To enhance water and irrigation efficiency, it is essential that each organization should closely cooperate together. In this regard, the active participation of various organizations in ICID WGs is advisable. ICID should suggest an open platform to communicate with all relevant stakeholders, and each NC should encourage participation of various organizations in their region.



ICID has published a lot of various technical data and research reports since 1950, and those are under good management. It is necessary, for the next step, to adopt those accumulated experiences and technologies to the field of member countries, especially in developing stages. ICID, as a new attempt, initiated ‘a Technical Support Unit’ at Montpellier France in 2015. All member countries should endeavor to realize the application of technology and experiences to the field through active participation.

It is anxious that some NCs withdraw from ICID recently. To cope with this situation and revitalize ICID, it would be one possible way to reinforce cooperation between NCs sharing the commonality in geography, culture, socio-economy, and agriculture. The reason of some NCs’ withdrawal from ICID (actually, arrears of annual membership fee) is multiple including: lack of finance; generation gap without succeeding young professionals; donors’ insufficient understanding on ICID; and others. Sharing experience and technology to foster succeeding young professionals through frequent contacts among NCs with joint projects can contribute to revitalize ICID consequently. It is advisable that NCs in socio-economically good circumstances may support other NCs with challenging condition in various aspects.

A variety of meetings which ICID has held – Congress, International Executive Council (IEC) Meeting, World Irrigation Forum (WIF), Regional Conferences, and etc. – can suggest significantly precious chances for business. It can provide an international platform to NCs and their relevant organizations (including private sector) on which they can meet at a mutually convenient time and discuss together to search for new projects, because the meetings can derive participation of people with influence on irrigation and drainage from NCs as well as corporates with advanced technologies. Especially, if the private sector can find business chances where developing countries search for development chances through those meetings, it may consequently contribute to the revitalization of ICID and to promote food security through irrigation and drainage development.

IV. Recommendation

It is crystal clear that Young Professionals (YPs) are the future of ICID. ICID should foster YPs as future leaders through operating regular capacity-development program by reinforcing support system of YPs. To realize regular capacity-development of ICID, it is necessary to address donor partners and designate a proper training institute from NCs, for sustainable, stable, and long-term capacity-development of YPs.

Active promotion of private sector’s participation can significantly contribute to reducing some NCs’ burden which needs financial support, and to revitalize their activities. ICID may embrace the private companies as ‘Direct Members’ so that it reinforce ICID’s financial foundation to support some NCs through developing new Guideline to impose different subscription fee to private companies in accordance with their scale and capacity. Private companies will not hesitate participating in ICID if they can find the business opportunities on the worldwide platform of water (irrigation and drainage) which ICID internationally suggests. ICID needs to consider the proper way to derive their active participation.

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Annex S4

REPORT OF THE CONSULTATIVE GROUP (CG) ON ICID VISION 2030 and

DRAFT ICID Action Plan 2030 [For discussions during the 67th IEC meeting]

1. Introduction

(1) The Action Plan presents the outcomes of a collective decision made by all the actors, so that everyone has ownership of the plan. Efforts have been made to keep the Action Plan straight forward, easy-to use and frequently referenced. The Action Plan outlines activities that the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) proposes to undertake to fulfil its vision and mission during the next 5 years. The Plan is envisaged to be flexible and would be reviewed once every three years and adjusted as circumstances change. (2) The Action Plan is designed to list the activities under each strategy deployed to address the identified goals. Activities are briefly described with their expected outputs, intended time frame for implementation and responsibilities. NCs being the centre of ICID network their inputs were sought by way of their requirements and expectations and sharing their knowledge and experiences. Most of the technical output and therefore meeting the desired goals would be possible through the efforts of the WGs and as such inputs were also sought from technical WGs in terms of activities proposed to be undertaken by various WGs under their mandates. (3) This report is intended to serve as the background document for discussions during the 67th IEC in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The report provides an analysis of the limited inputs received from NCs and WGs based on which a straw Action Plan has been prepared. In order to make the process of putting the Action Plan together as well as inclusive, all the WGs who have not contributed their inputs have been requested to include the discussions on the Draft Action Plan as part of their Agenda. Certain Joint activities to be coordinated by Central Office have also been proposed.

2. The vision, mission and goals1

(4) With a vision for “a water secure world free of poverty and hunger through sustainable rural development”, ICID has decided to “work together towards sustainable agriculture water management through inter-disciplinary approaches to economically viable, socially acceptable and environmentally sound irrigation, drainage and flood management”. 2.1 Sustainable Development Goals (5) The Action Plan, factors the latest developments such as adoption by the UN General Assembly “Transforming our World: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” which sets out a plan of action for planet, people and prosperity. The SDGs and targets related to Agriculture Water Management are attached as Appendix I. (6) National level monitoring relying on nationally defined sets of indicators is recognized the most important level of monitoring. National ownership at all levels of the SDG framework is critical, and national monitoring must respond to national priorities and needs. Various national entities will have to play an important role in fulfilling these goals. (7) The focus of the ICID Action Plan, therefore lies in providing support to NCs in their contribution to fulfil the SDGs related to Agriculture Water Management by fulfilling the ICID’s six organizational Goals as indicated below. (8) Keeping this in view, ICID during its 66th IEC meeting held in Montpellier in October 2015 chose following as the organizational Goals for ICID.

1. Enable higher crop productivity with less water and energy 2. Be a catalyst for change in policies and practices 3. Facilitate exchange of information, knowledge and technology 4. Enable cross disciplinary and inter-sectoral engagement 5. Encourage research and support development of tools to extend innovation into field practices 6. Facilitate capacity development.

1 Adopted by 66th IEC meeting at Montpellier, France on 16 October 2015 through Resolution No.IEC-4/66.



2.2 Needs assessment of National Committees

(9) In order to meet the targets set out to achieve various SDGs, particularly those influencing or dependent on efficient and holistic Agriculture Water Management to support sustainable rural development, the NCs will have to contribute to the national efforts (10) The NCs were given more than 60 days to respond to the questionnaire presuming that they would require wider consultations among their various constituents. Out of the 60 National Committees, unfortunately only 18 NCs have responded (See Figure 1 in Appendix II) even after extending the last date for submission of the questionnaire. Out of these, 5 are from OECD countries. The responses to the questionnaire were also intended to serve as one of the inputs for the TF on Revitalization of the National Committees. It is a matter of great concern that none of the NCs from Europe have submitted their response. (11) An analysis of the information provided is compiled and presented in the Appendix II providing an assessment of the membership, organizational structure, and communication and dissemination mechanism.

2.3 Contribution from the Working Groups (12) The WGs through their activities help to generate, extract, compile, and synthesize the available knowledge for wider dissemination through ICID channels. Various WGs and TFs have been established to study these aspects. Members of WGs are nominated by the NCs. The output of the WGs could be in the form of technical papers, reports, manuals and/ or guidelines. In addition to sharing the technology and innovations at the annual WG meetings, experts also share their experiences through technical deliberations at the Congresses and specialized workshops. (13) WGs were requested to provide inputs through a detailed questionnaire. WGs were advised to consider following points while preparing their responses to the questions:

actions identified should be specific about what WG want to achieve to fulfil its mandate and should form part of its Action Plan

identified actions should be unambiguous and clear

the result of the actions should be Measurable with a clearly defined outcome (KPIs)

outcome of actions is Achievable and Realistic, taking into account time, competence and available resource both human and financial

(14) The Chairman/ Vice Chairman/ Secretary were requested to develop the activities based on an agreed Plan prepared by the Working Group. It was pointed out that in case the WG has not prepared the Plan, a Draft may be prepared by the Office Bearers (Chairman/Vice Chairman/Secretary of the WG), duly including the new activities wherever considered necessary. The WGs have been advised to discuss the Draft Input with the members of the WG through a virtual meeting of the WG via WebEx. (15) The Working Group will also have the opportunity to discuss its inputs during the IEC meeting in Chiang Mai, November 2016. Each activity should address the given Goal under which the activity is classified. In case an activity appears to address more than one Goal, WG were advised to list the activity under one Goal only. Milestones in achieving these outputs were required to be defined for each year. (16) Unfortunately, only following 4 WGs have provided inputs for the Action Plan: WG-Bio-Energy, WG-M&R, WG-ENV, WG-Climate (Tentative) and EB-Jour. Central Office, has prepared Activities under various WGs based on their mandate and annual plans where they exist and included it in the agenda of the WGs meeting during the 67th IEC meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand. As such the draft Action Plan needs to be populated based on the inputs from the WGs.

3. Strategies to achieve the Goals (17) As pointed out earlier, the Working Groups, organized in three thematic areas: the Basin, the Systems and the Farm level and the fourth as the Knowledge base underpinning the other three, act as the engines to deliver the objectives of the ICID network. They will continue to play this role in future too. During the last Four years, these working groups have been reorganized as part of annual review process. The mandates of these groups, revisited from time to time, are indicative of the strategies that ICID has been adopting. The strategies to achieve the Six Organizational Goals therefore have been identified as follows.



Goal 1: Enable higher crop productivity with less water and energy

Strategy 1.1: Modernization of irrigation systems

Strategy 1.2: Improving O&M of Irrigation Systems

Strategy 1.3: Implementing water saving techniques

Strategy 1.4: Improving Institutional Reforms

Strategy 1.5: Enhancing water productivity

Strategy 1.6: Improving performance of irrigation systems

Strategy 1.7: Using wastewater or poor quality water for irrigation Goal 2: Be a catalyst for change in policies and practices

Strategy 2.1: Support appropriate policies

Strategy 2.2: Promote risk management approaches

Strategy 2.3: Integrated irrigation and drainage management

Strategy 2.4: Encouraging development of drought management policies

Strategy 2.5: Helping develop climate change adaptation strategy Goal 3: Facilitate exchange of information, knowledge and technology

Strategy 3.1: Providing platform for AWM professionals

Strategy 3.2: Promote Regional Cooperation

Strategy 3.3: Compile, collate and share knowledge and experiences

Strategy 3.4: Dissemination of knowledge Goal 4: Enable cross disciplinary and inter-sectoral engagement

Strategy 4.1: Provide a platform for various stakeholders of AWM

Strategy 4.2: Develop technical documents in non-technical language

Strategy 4.3: Facilitate developing inter-sectoral platforms involving NCs Goal 5: Encourage research and support development of tools to extend innovation into field practices

Strategy 5.1: Improve research atmosphere in the countries

Strategy 5.2: Strengthening extension services with water information

Strategy 5.3: Developing tools for sustainable development

Strategy 5.4: Research into the history of irrigation and learning from the past

Strategy 5.5: Compilation of global data related to irrigation and drainage

Strategy 5.6: Dissemination of the research findings Goal 6: Facilitate capacity development

Strategy 6.1: Enhancing capacity development capabilities in member countries

Strategy 6.2: Support capacity development activities of member countries

Strategy 6.3: Trainings Young Professionals

Strategy 6.4: Creating AWM knowledge base

Strategy 6.5: Provide Technical support to NCs

4. Developing Actions for each goal (18) Majority of activities under Goal 1: Enable higher crop productivity with less water and energy; Goal 2: Be a catalyst for change in policies and practices; and Goal 4: Enable cross disciplinary and inter-sectoral engagements have to be contributed by various WGs. Similarly, majority of activities under Goal 3: Facilitate exchange of information, knowledge and technology and Goal 6: Facilitate Capacity development essentially fall within the activities of Central Office. Collaborative action by the NCs, with support from CO and International Partners only can meet the Goal 5: Encourage research and support development of tools to extend innovation into field practice.



NCs have to play crucial role in meeting the objectives of almost all the Goals, but it is particularly true for Goal 2, Goal 3 and Goal 6. (19) Based on the inputs received from NCs including, possible contributions, their needs and expectations; the activities being undertaken by Central Office, particularly in respect of Goal 5 and Goal 6; the limited inputs provided by the WGs; and the activities extracted from the current action plans prepared by some of the WGs, a limited suite of activities under the Six Organizational Goals have been compiled and are presented in Appendix III. (20) This draft action plan needs to be further populated based on the discussions during the 67th IEC meeting at various levels. Particularly, each of the WG has to deliberate on the outputs and outcomes from their activities. Efforts have to be made to be specific about the objectives of each activity and the outcomes in a non- ambiguous and clear manner. The result of the actions should be measurable with a clearly defined outputs and outcome that are Achievable and Realistic, taking account of time, ability and resources. The actions are to be set in an achievable time frame, with deadlines and milestones to check the progress. (21) Efforts have to be made to identify all the problems that could go wrong in the process of achieving a particular goal and suitable actions to resolve them have been listed. Give consideration to any expenditure required to complete the task. All costs will have to be taken into account when preparing a budget. The proposed activities have been prioritized under the guidance of CG.

5. Proposed way forward

(22) The Action Plan is proposed to be presented and discussed in various WG meetings, Regional WG meetings, Office Bearers with the NCs representatives meeting, PCSO and PCTA meetings, before taking it to the IEC plenary. It is expected that WGs will populate Appendix III with the Activities they propose to take up and their outcomes and timeline during the WG meetings in Chiang Mai. (23) Based on the inputs from various work bodies during 67th IEC, it is expected that IEC will give direction to the Consultative Group to revise the Draft Action Plan within Four months duly taking into account the inputs from the TF on Revitalization of National Committees. The Implementation of the Action Plan will be subject to the availability of resources in terms of voluntary inputs from national experts spread across many countries and disciplines. The financial viability of some of the activities will have to be analysed and prioritized by the CG. (24) In order to get the NCs perspective on the approach adopted by CG the Second Draft Action Plan would be sent to the NCs for final comments through correspondence giving a limited time of one month to provide any inputs and feedback. The Finalized ICID Action Plan 2030 shall be approved by the Management Board so that the implementation of the Action Plan is started in the ICID Financial Year 2017-18. The ICID Action Plan 2030 will be subsequently endorsed and approved at the 68th IEC meeting in Mexico City, Mexico in October 2017.

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Appendix I to Annex S4

SDGS, TARGETS AND INDICATORS

RELATED TO AGRICULTURE WATER MANAGEMENT (AWM) AND RELEVANT TO ICID

(Refer link http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/47th-session/documents/2016-2-SDGs-Rev1-E.pdf)

Water being central to all economic, social and cultural development and well-being, and agriculture being one of the main livelihood providers and user of seventy percent of water, Agriculture Water Management plays a crucial role in the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. Some aspects of almost all the SDGs are impacted by the way we manage water in agriculture. It is recognised that achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Goals and 169 targets will only be possible through an integrated approach, working across sectors, ministries and different administrative levels and geographical scales. Fully understanding the interlinkages, and maximising synergies and minimizing trade-offs by working across traditional institutional structures, present a key challenge for many governments. Understanding the linkages will help governments establish inter-sectoral mechanisms to address these issues, including partnerships, coordinating committees and consultation mechanisms. An assessment of the relevance of the water and sanitation related targets both within the Water Goal [6], and for all the other Goals, reveals that many targets are inherently interrelated, with different types of links. For example, some targets are interdependent – one target must be realized in order for another to be viable. Others impose constraints – one target may restrict the ways in which another target can be achieved. Some targets reinforce each other – achieving one target will also support the achievement of another. Conflicts may arise when achieving one target may have a negative impact on another if not managed appropriately, or when two targets may lead to trade-offs, calling for priority- setting. The Goal on Means of implementation and partnerships is directly supportive of the Water Goal. This highlights the need to incorporate a wider systems perspective to understand how the targets interact, so that synergies are harnessed and trade-offs managed, and ultimately, that the 2030 Agenda can effectively be realised. Some of the Goals, their Targets and in some cases their Indicators are directly dependent on efficient AWM and/or AWM influences these targets. Following is the list of such Goals, Targets and Indicators. Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Target 2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

Indicator 2.3.1: Volume of production per labour unit by classes of

arming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size.

Indicator 2.3.2: Average income of small scale food producers

Target 2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

Indicator 2.4.1: Percentage of agricultural area under sustainable agricultural practices.

Indicator 2.4.2*: Percentage of agricultural households using irrigation systems compared to all agricultural households

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Target 6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all

Target 6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing

release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally

Indicator 6.3.1: Proportion of wastewater safely treated

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/47th-session/documents/2016-2-SDGs-Rev1-E.pdf

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Indicator 6.3.2: Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality

Target 6.4 By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity

Indicator 6.4.1: Percentage change in water use efficiency over time.

Indicator 6.4.2: Percentage of total available water resources used, taking environmental water requirements into account (Level of Water Stress)

Target 6.5 By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through

transboundary cooperation as appropriate Indicator 6.5.1: Degree of integrated water resources management (IWRM) implementation (0-100)

Target 6.6 By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes

Indicator 6.6.1: Percentage of change in water-related ecosystems extent over time.

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Target 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

Indicator 13.1.1: Number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction

strategies

Target 13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning Target 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate

change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

Indicator 13.3.1: Number of countries that have integrated mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning into primary, secondary and tertiary curricula

Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage

forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss Target 15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests,

halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally

Indicator 15.2.1: Forest cover under sustainable forest management

Target 15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by

desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world

Indicator 15.3.1: Percentage of land that is degraded over total land area Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable

development

Target 17.6 Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism

Indicator 17.6.1: Number of science and/or technology cooperation agreements and

programmes between countries, by type of cooperation.

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Appendix II to Annex S4

CONTRIBUTING TO SHAPE ICID FUTURE ANALYSIS OF RESPONSES FROM NCS TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE

II.1 Introduction National Committees are at the centre of all the activities of ICID and form the backbone of the organization. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development stresses the importance of developing national strategies for the promotion of sustainable and productive activities through partnerships, and encourages Governments to create a climate that is conducive to increasing the greater involvement of all relevant stakeholders in every sphere of development, including agriculture water management. The ICID Action Plan 2030 has to therefore aim at strengthening its National Committees. As the capacities in the NCs within the countries, particularly in developing countries may not be up to the mark to fulfil their national obligation, as part of the Action Plan exercise the needs of NCs in this respect were specifically assessed through a Questionnaire. Shaping National Committees were invited to provide inputs based on a questionnaire as presented in Appendix III. The objective of the seeking information through the questionnaire developed by the Consultative Group was to give the opportunity to NCs to contribute into shaping the way ICID, as a network. The NCs were given more than 60 days to respond to the questionnaire presuming that they would require wider consultations among their various constituents. Out of the 60 National Committees, unfortunately only 18 NCs (Bangladesh, Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, Egypt, Japan, India, Iran, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Sudan (North), Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Zambia, Zimbabwe) have responded (Refer Fig 1) even after extending the last date for submission of the questionnaire out of which 5 are OECD countries. It is a matter of great concern that none of the NCs from Europe have submitted their response.

Figure 1. National Committees that have responded to ICID Questionnaire

II.2 Organization structure of National Committees National Committee are ideally required to serve as a platform within the country (ies) serving the agriculture water management community. Ideally, its composition should include representatives from government(s), technical and scientific organizations, non-governmental organizations, research institutions, academicians, etc. with the interest in promoting and furthering the mission and objectives of the Commission. National Committees (NCs), with the participation of experts from various ministries and disciplines generally represent the entire spectrum of government institutions involved in agriculture water management from within the country. In order to understand the on the ground structure and functioning of the NCs one of the questions that was posed in the questionnaire was: What is the organization structure of YOUR National Committees? Information sought can be categorised into: Who are the members? What are the obstacles in getting more active members to the NC? What is the Revenue Model of the NC? What role does the NC play? How is the NC Organized? What is dissemination mechanism the NC uses? An analysis of the information provided is compiled and presented in the Appendix II-A to Appendix II-E. The salient features are presented in the following paragraphs.



Appendix II-A: Briefly illustrates the revenue model followed by the responding NCs.

Appendix II-B: Provides a glimpse of what the NCs perceive as obstacles in expanding the membership of their NCs. The questionnaire provided options as: competition from other water groups, lack of attractive mandate, no clear advantage of being a members of the NC, too expensive etc.

Appendix II-C: Lists the various roles played by the respective NC in the national context, as a prioritised list. The higher score indicating a higher priority given to that particular activity.

Appendix II-D: Provides information regarding the membership of the NCs.

Appendix II-E: Indicates the way the NCs interact with their members, and disseminate the information received from ICID or otherwise through means such as website, circular letters etc.

Following are the observations based on these analysis.

(1) 12 out of 18 NCs are fully funded by government. Three of the NCs get their major funding from the membership contribution. Only a few NCs get their revenue from other activities such as organization of conferences. US National Committee is the only responding NC getting their revenue generated by its activities. There is a greater scope for other NCs to generate greater portion of their revenues from activities of the NCs. Accept for Canadian NC and Taiwanese Committee, no other NC has substantial revenues coming from membership.

(2) The most critical obstacles faced by both developing and developed countries NCs is no attractive mandate for the NCs and no clear cut advantage of becoming members of the NCs. It is also unfortunate that NCs find that YPs do not have interest in participating in NCs activities.

(3) Out of the 18 NCs responding to the questionnaire, 13 NCs have institutional membership with some members representing the government departments and other institutions, while 5 NCs that have individual membership on an average with 48% engineers, 20% research and academicians, and 15% belonging to private sector and less than 1% farmers except in the case of IRNCID. NCs with institutional membership have on an average 27 institutions out of which 40% are government entities.

(4) Out of these only 12 NCs have Website, 11 use Circulars letters and another 12 use News Bulletin to disseminate information to their members. Four NCs do not have any kind of communication with their members. Only 10 NCs have a mechanism to provide feedback into policy making process in their country. 14 NCs have an open membership with 12 having Executive Committees and 11 NC organizing Annual meetings. However, only 5 NCs have established their own technical working groups.

(5) The NCs undertake a variety of activities. Based on the priority that each respective NCs assign out of the ten options, it can be inferred that, despite the variety of water institutions and organization springing up in water sector, NC’s do not consider that the NCs are not obsolete, and they offer business opportunities. The second category of roles that the NCs fulfil are international exposure for young professional, provide professional advice to members, and act as think tanks. The top most important role that the NCs play: Organize events and meetings for members, Platform to exchange of information, Advocacy on importance of irrigation, drainage and flood management, and offer training and capacity development.

II.3 Needs and potential contributions from NCs In order to understand the requirements of the NCs and how the NCs can contribute to the ICID Action Plan 2030, the following questions were posed to the NCs to collect their response:

(1) What kind of support NC members seek to fulfil their national mandate?

(2) What support does NC need to meet the SDGs related to Agriculture Water Management?

(3) How would NC contribute in achieving the Six Goals of ICID Vision 2030?

(4) What support does NCs expect from the ICID Network?

(5) Which specific activities ICID (as a network) should take to meet NCs’ expectations? Based on the responses the support required by the NCs and their potential contribution to achieving the six goals of ICID Vision 2030 have been categorised under: Information sharing and exchange; Advocacy; Capacity development; Research; Technology transfer; Partnerships; and Financial. The activities suggested by the NCs for fulfilling the six goals have been included in the Action Plan proposed while compiling Appendix III.



Appendix II-A

REVENUE MODEL OF NATIONAL COMMITTEES

Acronym

Revenue from membership

Revenue from NC activities

Support from Government

Others (Specify)

(1) (2) (3) (4)

BANCID 0 0 100 0

CANCID 90 10 0 0

CNCID 0 0 90 10

CTCID 30 25 45 0

ENCID 0 0 100 0

INCSW 0 0 100 0

IRNCID 2 10 88 0

JNCID 0 0 100 0

KCID 75 25 0 0

MXCID 0 0 100 0

ANAFIDE 20 15 0 65

SLNCID 0 0 100 0

SNCID 0 0 100 0

TUCID 0 0 100 0

UACID 50 0 10 40

USCID 17 83 0 0

ZACID 0 0 100 0

ZwCID 0 0 100 0

Note: Figures in Percent (%)

CANCID

UACID

ANAFI…

CNCID

BANCID

INCSW

MXCID

SNCID

ZACID

REVENUE MODEL OF NATIONAL COMMITTEES

1. Revenue from membership 2. Revenue from NC activities



Appendix II-B

OBSTACLES FACED BY NCs IN GETTING MORE ACTIVE MEMBERS

Note: In this table the priority score is shown with 6 being the highest priority and 1 as lowest priority. No response is left blanc. It was possible to give the same priority level multiple times.

Acronym

Competition

with other water groups

No

attractive mandate

Too expensive

(employer does not support)

Young people are

too busy and not interested

No clear-cut

advantages to members

No obstacles,

our NC is thriving

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

BANCID 1 6 2 2 2 1

CANCID 3 6 3 1 5 2

CNCID 4 3 3 1 2 -

CTCID 3 5 2 6 3 1

ENCID 3 4 4 4 5 4

INCSW 3 1 - - 6 -

IRNCID 2 4 1 4 2 5

JNCID - - - - - 1

KCID 3 5 2 3 6 1

MXCID 4 5 3 2 6 1

ANAFIDE 4 1 2 3 5 3

SLNCID 1 5 3 - 6 0

SNCID 1 6 5 3 1 1

TUCID 1 4 1 1 2 4

UACID - 3 - 5 4 -

USCID 6 3 2 4 5 1

ZACID 6 6 4 6 2 1

ZwCID 3 4 6 5 1 2

Total 48 71 43 50 63 28

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

1

2

5

4

3

6

OBSTACLES - NCs FOR GETTING MEMBERS

Developing Countries Developed Countries



Appendix II-C

ROLES PLAYED BY NATIONAL COMMITTEES IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Note: In this table the priority score is shown with 10 being the highest priority and 1 as lowest priority No response is left blanc. For this question it was possible to give the same priority level multiple times.

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en

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cap

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lete

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

BANCID 10 6 6 6 2 6 1 6 2 1

CANCID 8 7 6 9 3 5 1 4 10 2

CNCID 4 8 6 5 3 10 2 9 6 1

CTCID 4 8 6 5 3 10 2 9 6 1

ENCID 10 8 8 7 9 9 1 10 8 1

INCSW 10 - - - - - - - - -

IRNCID 10 10 10 10 9 9 6 10 10 1

JNCID 9 10 10 10 8 10 3 10 10 1

KCID 10 5 2 9 7 8 3 4 8 1

MXCID 7 6 10 10 6 10 1 10 1 1

ANAFIDE 10 9 8 9 10 7 5 4 6 -

SLNCID - - - - 7 4 5 3 2 -

SNCID 9 10 1 8 6 1 1 9 10 10

TUCID 10 10 6 1 3 10 1 7 3 7

UACID 6 6 6 9 9 9 7 9 8 1

USCID 10 9 2 5 8 3 7 6 4 1

ZACID 9 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 8 2

ZwCID 5 8 10 6 7 9 2 4 3 1

Total 141 130 107 119 110 130 57 123 105 32

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160

1

2

6

8

4

5

3

9

7

10

ROLES PLAYED BY NCs IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT



Appendix II-D

NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP COMPOSITION (A) NCs WITH INDIVIDUAL (+INSTITUTIONAL) MEMBERS

Acronym To

tal

me

mb

ers

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vern

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nti

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Un

ivers

ity

Acad

em

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ns

Yo

un

g

Pro

fess

ion

als

Pri

vate

se

cto

r

Farm

ers

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

CANCID 250 13 123 35 30 25 10 3

IRNCID >2000 1000 1400 1000 800 600 1000 200

KCID 774 8 503 100 39 77 39 8

UACID 135 1 15 60 10 11 2 3

USCID 394 18 63 0 31 69 213 0

(B) NCs WITH INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS

Acronym

To

tal

me

mb

ers

Go

vern

men

t

Dep

art

men

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Un

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g

Pro

fess

ion

als

Pri

vate

se

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r

Farm

ers

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

BANCID 18 12 13 2 0 0 0 0

CNCID 99 28 0 24 5 0 9 0

CTCID 39 2 3 5 6 0 6 17

ENCID 30 29 5 19 3 2 1 0

INCSW 10 6 6 2 0 0 0 0

JNCID 18 2 0 5 9 1 2 0

MXCID 12 3 0 2 0 0 0 0

ANAFIDE 29 11 0 4 0 4 10 0

SLNCID 30 12 5 0 1 5 2 0

SNCID 11 11 3 4 2 2 0 0

TUCID 14 13 12 0 0 0 1 0

ZACID 10 1 10 0 0 0 0 0

ZwCID 24 13 20 3 4 0 1 3

1 Total members in col 1 is not the sum of cols 2 to 8, as these characteristics are not exclusive



Appendix II-E

NATIONAL COMMITTEES – ORGANIZATIONAL AND COMMUNICATIONAL ASPECTS

Acronym

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(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

BANCID 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0

CANCID 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

CNCID 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1

CTCID 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1

ENCID 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1

INCSW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

IRNCID 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

JNCID 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

KCID 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

MXCID 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0

ANAFIDE 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1

SLNCID 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1

SNCID 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0

TUCID 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1

UACID 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

USCID 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0

ZACID 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

ZwCID 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0

Total 15 14 5 10 11 11 12 8 10 10

Note: 1-Yes, 0-No

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ICID DRAFT ACTION PLAN 2017-21

Strategies and Activities Outcomes/Outputs Responsible Work body

Milestone for Year2017

Milestone for Year2018

Milestone for

Year2019

Milestone for

Year2020

Milestone for

Year2021

Goal 1: Enable higher crop productivity with less water and energy

Strategy: Modernization of irrigation systems

Activity 1.1 Develop a program for introducing

standards for irrigation systems WG-M&R

Activity: Update Irrigation and Drainage manuals Various WGs

Activity: Formulate/ provide guidelines of innovative ideas for more food production with less water during scarcity of water.

WG-WATS

Activity: Prepare global analysis of the reasons for failure of the WUAs system

WG-IOA

Strategy: Improving O&M of Irrigation Systems

Activity: Advocacy paper to draw attention to the

needs of adequate resources for O&M WG-M&R

Activity: Develop norms of O&M of Irrigation systems WG-M&R

Activity: Develop e-learning tools for O&M activities WG-M&R

Strategy: Implementing water saving techniques

Activity: Disseminate the water saving award

technologies WG-WATS

Strategy: Institutional Reforms

Activity: Introduce suitable institutional setup. WG-IOA

Activity:

Strategy: Enhancing water productivity

Strategy: Improving governance of Irrigation Systems

Activity: WG-M&R



Strategies and Activities Outcomes/Outputs Responsible

Work body

Milestone for

Year2017

Milestone

for Year2018

Milestone for

Year2019

Milestone for

Year2020

Milestone for

Year2021

Strategy: Improving performance of irrigation systems

Activity: Investigating and providing information on the positive amenities, services and goods provided by irrigation systems

Information Papers WG-ENV

International

Workshop on water-food-energy nexus

TBD TBD TBD

Activity: Investigating and documenting negative

environmental impacts of irrigation systems Information Paper WG-ENV TBD TBD TBD TBD

Strategy: Using wastewater for irrigation

Activity: Compile best practices for sustainably manage and use non-conventional water resources.

WG-PQW

Activity: Contribute to the establishment of a national

re-use of treated wastewater in irrigation plan, participate in research on the development of sewage sludge in agricultural production, facilitate the search on the axes

WG-PQW

Goal 2: Be a catalyst for change in policies and practices

Strategy: Support appropriate policies

Activity Organize Policy support guidelines Various WGs

Activity Develop advocacy material Various WGs and CO

Activity: Facilitate policy analysis for improved water governance with a focus on agricultural water management and sustainable rural development.

WG-IDM

WG-IOA

Activity: Prepare position Paper on Key Issues on

Modernization of Irrigation Schemes A Position/Policy Paper WG-M&R

Release at WWF8 in Brasilia

Activity: Develop generalized legal regulations

(guidelines) and implementing changes in the public and private sectors of agriculture and water economies of the countries where irrigation and drainage play an important role in agricultural

production

WG-IOA




Work body

Milestone for

Year2017

Milestone

for Year2018

Milestone for

Year2019

Milestone for

Year2020

Milestone for

Year2021

Activity: Improving communication among WG-ENV country members between annual ICID meetings

Webinar WG-ENV One One One One

Strategy: Promote risk management approaches

Activity Develop global status reports WG-Drought

WG-CAFM

Strategy: Encourage sustainable drainage management

Activity: WG-IDM

WG-SDG

Strategy: Integrated irrigation and drainage management

Activity:

Strategy: Encouraging development of drought management policies

Activity: Advocating role of agricultural drainage under drought

WG-Drought

Activity: Managing with limited water under drought WG-Drought

Strategy: Helping develop climate change adaptation strategy

Activity: Climate Smart Agriculture WG-CLIMATE

WG-CROP

Activity: Compilation of techniques on Bio-Energy with minimal water use

Position Paper WG-BIO-ENERGY

Release at IEC

Goal 3: Facilitate exchange of information, knowledge and technology

Strategy: Providing platform for AWM professionals

Activity Organize Conferences and Congresses CO and NCs

Activity Organize working groups meetings CO and WGs

WG-M&R




Work body

Milestone for

Year2017

Milestone

for Year2018

Milestone for

Year2019

Milestone for

Year2020

Milestone for

Year2021

Main Theme of Congress

Activity Organize technical workshops

Modernization of Irrigation Systems

Bio-Energy

CO and WGs

(M&R), (Bio-Energy),

(A) Main

Theme of Congress

(B) Inputs to Congress

Activity Organize technical workshops CO and WGs

Activity Serve as knowledge sharing and information

platforms CO & NCs

Strategy: Promote Regional Cooperation

Activity: Broaden relationship and mutual understanding and cooperation between NCs from developing countries and developed countries

CO, NCs

Strategy: Compile, collate and share knowledge and experiences

Activity Publish proceedings of Congress and WIF CO

Activity Publish proceedings of technical conferences CO

Activity Compile country status reports CO, NCs

Activity Compile Global Data on various facets of

AWM CO, NCs

Activity: Serve as repository of technical documents. CO, NCs

Activity: Contributing to updating Multi-lingual Technical Dictionary

WG-ENV

Activity: Increase the outreach of IRD Journal EB-Jour Cont Cont Cont Cont

Strategy: Disseminate of knowledge

Activity Develop and maintain the ICID web site as a knowledge hub

CO

Activity: Updation of ICID NC directory for maximum

networking function, developing human resource database, knowledge sharing and information

platforms

CO & NCs




Work body

Milestone for

Year2017

Milestone

for Year2018

Milestone for

Year2019

Milestone for

Year2020

Milestone for

Year2021

Activity Publish peer reviewed technical Irrigation and Drainage Journal

EB-Jour

Activity Maintain an integrated library system CO

Goal 4: Enable cross disciplinary and inter-sectoral engagement

Strategy: Provide a platform for various stakeholders of AWM

Activity Organize World Irrigation Forum CO, NCs

Activity Participate in other multi-stake holders platforms like WWF

CO, TF

Activity Provision of facility for virtual meeting and conferences

CO

Strategy: Develop technical documents in non-technical language

Activity: Compile database of technical documents and their transformation in local/non-technical language

WGs, CO and NCs

Activity: Investigating and documenting the social and economic impacts of irrigation systems

WG-ENV TBD TBD TBD TBD

Strategy: Facilitate developing inter-sectoral platforms involving NCs

Activity: Build free or low-cost and widely accessible

water/irrigation/drainage technical information platform

ZwCID

Goal 5: Encourage research and support development of tools to extend innovation into field practices

Strategy: Improve research atmosphere in the

countries

Activity: Facilitate research on the shortcomings of

WUA governance

WG-IOA,

IRPID-Regional Nodes

Activity: Undertake/support cutting edge research

studies

IRPID-Regional Nodes




Work body

Milestone for

Year2017

Milestone

for Year2018

Milestone for

Year2019

Milestone for

Year2020

Milestone for

Year2021

Activity: Preparation and presentation of Case

studies

Modernization of Irrigation Systems

WG-M&R

2 case studies

2 case studies

2 case studies

Strategy: Strengthening extension services with water information

Activity:

Strategy: Developing tools for sustainable development

Activity: Water accounting tools WG-WATS

Activity: Develop state of art paper on Modernization

of Irrigation Systems WG-M&R

Release of the Paper

Strategy: Research into the history of irrigation and learning from the past

Activity: Compilation of Historical Irrigation Structure CO, WG-HIS

Activity: Compilation of lessons from HIS WG-HIS

Strategy: Compilation of global data related to irrigation and drainage

Activity: Review the standards for collection and compilation of AWM related data

Various WGs

Activity: Collection and compilation of Surface Irrigation data

WG-IDM, CO and NCs

Activity: Collection and compilation of Pressurised Irrigation data

WG-On Farm

Activity: Collection and compilation of Drainage

Irrigation data WG-SDG

Activity:

Strategy: Dissemination of the research findings




Work body

Milestone for

Year2017

Milestone

for Year2018

Milestone for

Year2019

Milestone for

Year2020

Milestone for

Year2021

Activity: To publish high quality papers in the journal Irrigation and Drainage (IRD) on new developments in irrigation, drainage and flood management

Publication of IRD Journals

EB-Jour 5 Issues 5 Issues 5 Issues 5 Issues

Activity: Compilation of research outputs from IRPID collaborative projects

IRPID RNs

Activity: Development of tools from research outputs IRPID RNs

Goal 6: Facilitate capacity development

Strategy: Enhancing capacity development capabilities in member countries

Activity: Contribute in the process of reorganization of NCs

TSU

Activity: Provide technical support for National

Committees, member and non-member of ICID TSU

Activity: Assisting to find capacity gaps in NC TSU

Activity: Twinning of some inactive NCs which are willing to join ICID activities but not available due to

financial or internal constrains with developed country NCs

KCID, CNCID

NCs

Activity: Arrange reciprocal technical visits among the national committees and use them to assess requirements and accordingly organize technical trainings.

NCs, IRPID Regional Nodes, CO

Strategy: Support capacity development activities of member countries

Activity: Facilitate donor NCs supports joint research, invitational training, YP support program, or membership subscription in certain period

TSU and CO

Activity: Organize workshops / seminars in

sponsoring countries to provide opportunities to the professionals and expert

TSU and CO

Strategy: Trainings Young Professionals




Work body

Milestone for

Year2017

Milestone

for Year2018

Milestone for

Year2019

Milestone for

Year2020

Milestone for

Year2021

Activity: Develop on-line training and extension material to be used in support of improving irrigation practices and increasing water productivity

WG-CDTE

Activity: Implementing special invitational training program for YPs in developing countries

CO

Activity: Arrange training and tours for professional to exchange experiences of leading countries in agriculture water management

CO, IRPID Regional Nodes

Activity: Increase knowledge and capacity on environmental performances of irrigation for YPs

Trainings/ Webinar WG-ENV TBD TBD TBD TBD

Strategy: Creating AWM knowledge base

Activity: Maintain a database of experts in AWM in

different countries in the irrigation and drainage field CO, NCs

Activity: Build irrigation extension technical competencies

CO

Activity: Dissemination of new technologies and efficient equipment manufacture

CO

Activity: Develop Guidelines for Modernization of Irrigation Systems

WG-M&R Release during WIF3

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