Privatization of Irrigation Project

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The Participatory Privatization of Irrigation Management and Investment Project aims to a) strengthen irrigation-related institutions by enabling the state hydraulic works (DSI) and the general directorate of rural services (GDRS) to provide guidance and technical support to water users' associations (WUO); and by helping WUOs to fulfill their responsibility for irrigation management and investment; b) relieve the public sector of funding and subsidizing the cost of irrigation operation and maintenance; c) initiate a process of reducing public sector responsibility for funding and managing irrigation investment; and d) promote efficient and sustainable use of irrigation systems. There are three components. The first purchases irrigation operations and maintenance equipment including wireless sets, motorcycles, vehicles, computers, cranes, winches and small backhoes/loaders, trucks, gradalls (truck-mounted machines with telescopic booms and wide buckets), graders, bulldozers, excavators, and draglines. The second component provides for consultants, training and study tours, computers, office and training equipment, and field vehicles. The third component helps a WUO purchase and install a drip irrigation system, which receives water from a small dam through an installed pipeline system, thus eliminating the need to use electricity for pumps to create pressure.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Public Administration

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Water Supply and Storage, Power Generation (CCGT), Broadband, Waste Processing and Treatment, Hydro, Telecommunications, Raw Materials, Government, Automotive, Residential, Commercial