The Second National Drainage Project

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The Second National Drainage Project will increase agricultural productivity, through drainage improvement, thus raising rural incomes based on the diversified, and sustainable production, resulting from appropriate uses of land, and water resources. The components will: 1) provide surface drainage in the old cultivated lands, as well as in reclaimed lands, including trench-less drain land; 2) renew, and/or rehabilitate existing surface drainage systems; 3) remodel open surface drains in most of the project areas, and provide operation, and maintenance equipment for open and sub-surface drains, materials during the transition period, and pumping stations for emergency centers; 4) support management, and institutional building through technical assistance, and training provision, to establish pilot schemes for integrating irrigation, and drainage user's associations in two Governorates, and in support of the Environmental Management Plan. Farmers outreach, and participatory activities will be supported, and, monitoring and evaluation, as well as operation and maintenance of the drainage system, will be supported through technical assistance and training.