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February 03, 2009 |
Increased agricultural productivity through improved water management
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WUASP objectives and scope
- Develop 30 democratically organized WUAs in Bukhara, Jizzakh, Samarkand and Namangan oblasts to be sustainable and effective::
- Increase organizational capacity (representation, transparency, good governance);
- Rehabilitation of irrigation and drainage systems;
- Reach financial sustainability by improving ISF collection and providing other services;
- Ensure smooth transfer to integrated water resource management using participatory approach;
- Increase agricultural productivity and farmers’ income.
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What has been done?
- Over 30,000 people trained thru almost 800 training evens in Institutional Development,
Business Development, Land and Water Management;
- Ensured democratiс elections and transparent decision making for more than 2,000 members
of 30 WUA Governing and Management bodies;
- Almost 50 km of drainage and irrigation canals were cleaned;
- 9 new drainage and irrigation canals opened with total lengh 18.6 km;
- 446 water gates and over 250 water measuring devices were installed, 37 hydrants;
- 100 water distribution points built;
- 30 WUA offices were provided with furniture and office equipment;
- Assisted 28 farmers and WUA Managers to go on study tours to US, Turkey and Israel.
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Results
- Farmers’ net income per ha increased by 23%; overal income increased by 25%;
- Agricultural productivity increased by average 20%;
- Due to improved irrigation farmers are able to plant secondary crops at additional 1,794 ha;
- Production of high valued crops increased by 6.5% last cropping season;
- 635 ha put back into production; approximately 35,000 ha of under and over irrigated land
receiving adequate irrigation due to rehabilitation works and training programs;
- Farmers’ perception of WUA was changed to positive, leading to the following:
- ISF collection rates doubled;
- Backyard owners started to pay for WUA services and participate in canal cleaning;
- Water saving in project rehabilitated areas reached 20%;
- Numbers of conflicts over the water reduced;
- Estimated number of beneficiaries (residents living in the area and receiving irrigation water) –
more than 235,000;
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Replication
- Japanese International Cooperation Agency is initiating program similar to WUASP project
in Syrdarya and Tashkent oblasts based on WUASP successes;
- Training for rayon khokims held by Cabinet of Ministers on a regular basis used
"Legal and Financial aspects of private farming" published by WUASP;
- "Vegetable production in backyard" book was adopted, translated to Pashto and published
in Afghanistan by USAID’s Alternative Livelihoods Program – Eastern region (ALP/E);
- Representatives of non-WUASP WUAs regularily come for advice and consultation to cooperating WUAs;
- Ministry of Agricultue and Water Resources requests WUASP specialists to participate in their
events using program training materials throughout Uzbekistan.
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WUASP at a Glance 
