Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC) FINAL REPORT Of INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN FERGANA VALLEY Project Phase III (1 May 2005 – 31 April 2008) Implemented by: Scientific Information Center of the International Water Management ICWC (SIC) Institute (IWMI) Tashkent, 2008 Abbreviations AAC Aravan – Akbura Canal BP Business Plan BISA Basin Irrigation System Authority BWMO Basin Water Management Organisation CHF Swiss Francs CMO Canal Management Organization CWC Canal Water Committee DWD District Water Department FOMP Farmer Ownership Model Project, Tajikistan FV Ferghana Valley ICWC Interstate Commission for Water Coordination IFAS International Fund for saving the Aral Sea ISA Irrigation System Authority Isfairam-Shakhimardan ISA Isfairam-Shakhimardan Irrigation System Authority ISMO Irrigation System Management Organization IWMI International Water Management Institute IWRM Integrated Water Resource Management IWRM-Ferghana The Integrated Water Resources Management in Ferghana Valley project KBC Khodja – Bakirgan Canal LF Log frame MAWR Ministries of Agriculture and Water Resources MIS Management Information System NCSGs National Coordination and Support Groups O&M Operation and Maintenance PC Pilot canal PSC Project Steering Committee RAS Rural Advisory Service, Osh, Kyrgyzstan RBC Right Bank Canal, Kyrgyzstan SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SECO Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SFC South – Fergana Canal SIC Scientific Information Centre TSR Transboundary small river UCWU Union of Canal Water Users UWU Union of Water Users WUA Water User Association WUASP Water User Support Project (USAID) WUG Water User Group YPO Yearly Plan of Operations 2 Table of contents Abbreviations....................................................................................................................................................2 Table of contents ..............................................................................................................................................3 I. Summary .......................................................................................................................................................4 II. Introduction..................................................................................................................................................6 III. Important Achievements of IWRM Ferghana Phase III.......................................................................................8 Result 1: Pilot Canal Management Organizations are practicing IWRM principles ....................................................8 1.1 Integrate Governance, management functions and inter-sectoral interests under one Canal Management Organization (SFC, KBC and AAC)........................................................................................................................9 1.2. Create broader understanding of the new institutional structure for the transition period ........................... 10 1.3 Develop recommendations on improvement of the legislation at national level for dissemination ................ 14 1.4 Assist CMOs/ CWCs in preparing Business-Plans ........................................................................................... 16 1.5a. Assess feasibility of alternative water allocation procedures and system management ............................... 17 1.6 Replication of the IWRM experience to one additional canal ........................................................................ 19 1.7. Assess project impact through performance indicators, water users’ satisfaction surveys ............................ 21 1.8 Create institutionalized capacity within research and educational systems................................................... 22 Result 2: Created WUAs are distributing and delivering water in equitable and reliable manner using IWRM guidelines ...................................................................................................................................................... 23 2.1 Assist WUAs in the development and implementation of business plans, financial plans, O&M plans as well as rehabilitation and asset management .............................................................................................................. 24 2.2 Assist three pilot WUAs in addressing reclamation, drainage, groundwater and salinity issues........................ 24 2.3 Assess the feasibility of alternative water allocation procedures and system management within pilot WUAs.. 25 2.3d Identify options for financing infrastructure upgrade and rehabilitation in collaboration with governments/ donor funded projects and other mechanisms .................................................................................................. 33 2.4 Developing and assisting in the establishment of WUAs/WUGs along the entire/most part of KBC and SFC ...... 33 2.5 Share and disseminate Social Mobilization Methodology to other development projects................................. 36 2.6 Assess project impact on WUA development using users’ satisfaction surveys, WUA records, etc.................... 37 Result 3: Dissemination of Improved Technologies for increasing water and land productivity at the field level.... 39 3.1 Prepare guidelines /manuals for trainers on principles of land and water productivity improvement know-how and water demand calculation based on Phase 2 results ................................................................................... 39 3.2 Pilot test of proposed methods for developing know-how dissemination tools on water and land productivity improvement, and guidelines and manuals in WUAs and Basin Organizations ...................................................... 42 3.3 Establish links with RAS/FOMP and other relevant projects / national agencies for uptake and use of guidelines and manuals .................................................................................................................................................. 47 Result 4: Support to national level water management policy improvements / changes ...................................... 48 4.1 Establish a functional IWRM National Coordination and Support Group (NCSG) ............................................. 48 4.2 Organize training, experience sharing workshops, study tours and exchange visits on IWRM .......................... 49 4.3. Prepare and disseminate guidelines for senior water managers for increasing public awareness.................... 49 4.4 Transition to full management by CMOs/CWCs at pilot canals by the end of project phase ............................ 50 4.5 Adoption and Up-scaling of IWRM Financial mechanisms at national levels.................................................... 51 4.6 Adoption and Up-scaling of IWRM operational management mechanisms at national levels ............................ 51 4.7 Technical Upgrading at national level ........................................................................................................ 52 4.8 IWRM development for new objects including canal, WUA and Farm level..................................................... 52 Result 5: Sustainable water resources management of TSRs - Shakhimardan and Khodja-Bakirgan........................ 53 5.1 Investigate the status of water allocation procedures and prepare a legal framework for TSRs ..................... 53 5.2 Preparing conditions for creating organizational structures for TSR water resources management.................. 53 5.3. Capacity building of main coordination commissions and monitoring the process ......................................... 54 IV. Capacity building and training activities ..................................................................................................... 55 V. Resources and management........................................................................................................................ 60 Project management ...................................................................................................................................... 60 Personnel and Staff ........................................................................................................................................ 61 SMID Team..................................................................................................................................................... 63 Expenditures.................................................................................................................................................. 64 VI Annexure ................................................................................................................................................... 66 Project deliverables ....................................................................................................................................... 70 Diagrams for water distribution indicators ....................................................................................................... 81 3 I. Summary The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been supporting financially the Integrated Water Resources Management Project in the Ferghana Valley since 2001. The main objective of the project is to improve the effectiveness of water resources management in the Ferghana Valley by promoting institutional reforms in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan that