8/6/2019 World Water Week - Asia Day - Presentation Hafeez http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/world-water-week-asia-day-presentation-hafeez 1/24 STOCKHOLM WATER CONGRESS PUNJAB IRRIGATION SYSTEM AND SECTOR REFORMS BY ABDUL HAFEEZ 19 th August 2008 The views expressed in this paper are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), or its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADB does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms.
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8/6/2019 World Water Week - Asia Day - Presentation Hafeez
The views expressed in this paper are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB), or its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADB does not guarantee the accuracy of the data
included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily beconsistent with ADB official terms.
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Pakistan’s Irrigation System is the largest contiguousgravity flow network in the World
It serves as a lifeline for irrigated agriculture in Punjabwhich provides over 90% of the total agriculturalproduction and contributes 20% to the GDP
The climate is arid to semi-arid, with annual rainfall of10 - 15 inches, mainly in the monsoon months (July -September)
The system was designed for low irrigation intensities(60-70%). As a result of agricultural development overtime and groundwater contribution, the irrigation
intensities have now almost doubled (120-150%)2
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The reservoir capacity is highly inadequate to balancethe river flow fluctuations. Further, the progressivesedimentation has reduced 20% capacity of the existing
reservoirs Groundwater development has contributed significantly
towards meeting the enhanced irrigation requirements.
Over exploitation of groundwater is however posingserious sustainability concerns in most freshgroundwater aquifers
The institutional architecture of the irrigationdepartment has not kept pace with the physical,technical and socio-political developments over time.The international experience suggests that focus needsto shift from development towards improvedmanagement for optimizing the benefits of irrigationsystem
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Pillar-I: Institutional and Policy Reforms to improve themanagement and maintenance of the irrigation system toensure its long term physical and financial sustainability
Pillar-II: Water Resource Management Reforms toemphasize the critical importance of water entitlements,measurements, and transparency. The objective is tomake intra-province water allocations and distribution
more transparent, besides regulating exploitation and useof groundwater. Pillar-III: Irrigation Service Delivery Reforms The objective
under this pillar is to improve the quality, efficiency and
accountability of irrigation services, through greaterparticipation of farmers, institutional reforms, and the useof contractual arrangements among water supplyagencies and users.
Pillar-IV: Improving water use efficiency and on-farmproductivity through a system of incentives.
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Developing a comprehensive system formonitoring and evaluation of canal allocationsand canal operations. Greater transparency andaccountability through display of canal flow dataon the website.
Implementing a system of accurate and reliablewater measurements
Development and implementation of GWmanagement and regulatory framework
Preparation of decision support model
Study for piloting of water markets in areas
where opportunities exist
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Institutional analysis of irrigation department forits right-sizing and modernization. Also setting upnew units for strategic planning, groundwatermanagement, environmental conservation,human resources management andcommunications.
Preparation / Launching of CommunicationStrategy
Introduction of Benchmarking and MonitoringSystem for FOs
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Quantum increase in budget for rehabilitation and modernization of irrigationinfrastructure
From Rs 1.4 billion in 2003-04 to Rs 11 billion in 2007-08 Commitment of sustaining and progressively increasing these funds through
MTBF allocations ( Rs 13 Billion in 08-09 & Rs 16 Billion in 09-10 )
Substantial improvement in O&M allocations for improved maintenance andsustainability of modernization effort
From Rs 1.34 billion in July 2005 to Rs 2.42 billion in 2007-08
Setting up an effective system for ensuring the transparency and quality of O&Mthrough work plans, guidelines and third party engineering audit
Strengthening financial controls by institutionalizing the system of regular DACmeetings
Focused attention on abiana collection and its systematic review by the ChiefSecretary in the monthly DCOs meetings Abiana collection improved from 47% to70%
MAJOR INITIATIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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Putting in place a comprehensive system of entitlements,monitoring and feedback for canal operations. The initiative is beingfurther strengthened by linking it to real-time monitoring and
decision support model
Development of holistic groundwater management framework,action plan, and institutional arrangements. Phased GW
management interventions to ensure sustainable management ofour most precious but threatened resource
As part of IPD modernization, institutional diversification has beenput in place with focus on strategic planning, participatory irrigation
management, procurements, environmental management, projectimplementation and M&E. New organizational units have been setup and staff with multi-disciplinary skills appointed on marketdriven salaries
MAJOR INITIATIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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Developing sensitivity for environmental and socialconsiderations. The checklists for irrigation sectorprepared in-house. Implementation of the checklistsmade mandatory for all the development works andO&M Plans. This signals a major change in thedevelopment planning process
Formulation and implementation, for the first time, ofa comprehensive Communication Strategy andAction Plan for internal as well as external
stakeholders
Initiatives launched for improving water useefficiency and enhancing agriculture productivity
MAJOR INITIATIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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Both strengths and weaknesses like in any other system
The strengths of the new system include farmers awareness andownership, speedy dispute resolution, efforts for equitable water
distribution and development of local capacity for irrigationmanagement
The weaknesses include declining abiana collection, weaknessin maintenance of accounts and record keeping, increasing watertheft and elite capture in some cases
Imperative need for sustainability of the system and improvingFOs performance :
Continued political support
Nomination of AWB / PIDA Members
Capacity building and mainstreaming of FOs
Closer monitoring and support by PIDA / IPD
Timely action for corrective measures
LESSONS LEARNT
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