Punjab-Irrigation Sector Development Policy Loan

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The Punjab Irrigation Sector Development Policy Loan for Pakistan will provide financing to the Government of Punjab (GOPunjab), which has embarked on a major reform agenda to improve fiscal management and service delivery. The key elements of the reform program are: (a) public finance reforms to increase public spending and its efficiency for key priority sectors, while ensuring fiscal sustainability; (b) reforms that strengthen devolution and service delivery; and (b) reforms that improve the fiduciary and governance environment. As part of these reforms GOPunjab, is focusing on irrigation and reforms that are being carried out along the following four pillars: (i) institutional and policy reforms; (ii) water resources management reforms; (iii) irrigation service delivery reforms, and (iv) reforms to improve water use efficiency and on-farm productivity.