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The International Commission on Irrigation
and Drainage (ICID) had a relevant importance in IPTRID's
creation in 1990, together with the World Bank and the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
This central function is evident in ICID role within IPTRID's
government structure; ICID is member of:
1. IPTRID's Management
Committee (MC), responsible for overseeing the implementation of the work programme by the Secretariat and for advising the Programme Manager on technical and management actions;
2. ICID - IPTRID Advisory Committee
(AC), having the role to advise the Consultative Group (CG),
Management Committee (MC) and the Secretariat on technical
aspects and to promote collaboration between IPTRID and
ICID national committees.
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Collaboration with ICID WG-CBTE (Working Group
on Capacity Building, Training and Education):
On the occasion of the 55th IEC and Inter-regional Conference
(Moscow, Russian Federation, 5-11 September 2004),
a workshop on Capacity needs assessment on agricultural water
management was successfully conducted jointly between IPTRID
/ FAO and the ICID working group on “Capacity Building, Training
and Education” (DFID funded). Five papers were presented including
different case studies in developing countries. This workshop
marked the first step of a series of activities that are expected
to result in an ICID-FAO-IPTRID guideline manual on capacity
needs assessment to be published in 2006.
Collaboration with ICID Italian national committee
(ITALICID):
In February 2005 the Secretary General of ITALICID and the
Programme Manager of IPTRID met in Rome to discuss ways to develop
joint activities. Several points of interest were identified,
including stepping up and facilitating exchange of information
through their respective web pages, the development of "indicators"
to identify gender participation in irrigation in the Mediterranean
region, exploring development of a joint project proposal and
subsequently seeking funding for improved irrigated agriculture
in Ethiopia, and to join hands in producing a paper on the status
of irrigated agriculture in Italy. Initially, both parties agreed
to start with the latter activity ("The availability of water
resources and its use in Agriculture, in Italy") and to find
ways on how to move forward on the others.
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