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A Letter of Agreement (LOA) of
US$704 057 was signed in July 2004 with IWMI to cover
some activities to be achieved during a two-year period mostly
in Africa and Asia.
The magnitude and breadth of the LOA makes IWMI one of IPTRID
major partners.
The LOA includes four major activities:
Programme Development: providing strategic research input
to national programmes on investment, performance evaluation
and capacity and institution building in the area of smallholder
water management.
Support to Programme: contributing to IPTRID programme
on benchmarking irrigation performance (assist in programme
design, helping national partners with the maintenance of an electronic database on performance
of irrigation systems, etc.).
Research and Analytical Tools: promoting policy-related
research and development through the use of the PODIUM model
in at least 6 countries in Asia and Africa. The activities will
contribute to the knowledge to facilitate policy formulation
on water for food and environmental security.
Networking: IWMI staff participation in IPTRID projects, meetings
and seminars, as well as support to all
kinds of communication between IPTRID Partners.
Role within IPTRID's activities:
Because of the important support to IPTRID's
activities, IWMI collaborated in a variety of projects and initiatives.
Some examples are herein listed:
IPTRID-IWMI Collaborative Research and Knowledge
Networking (on-going project)
IPTRID-IWMI collaboration has the following
overriding objectives:
i) Fill strategic and practical research gaps identified through
IPTRID's programme by establishing data banks and developing
research and analytical tools.
ii) Increase national and regional capacity to improve management
and institutional systems, supporting professional practices
responsive to the issues of water for food, cities and the environment.
iii) Engage the creative thought and practice of the world water,
agriculture and environmental communities and of key opinion
and decision-makers. This calls for concerted investigation,
problem solving, dialogue and the free and open exchange of
ideas to understand and address the distinctive conditions,
opportunities and values in the diverse societies more effectively.
WCA-infoNET: Information System on
Water Conservation and Use in Agriculture (on-going project)
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WCA-infoNET is a global platform on water
conservation and use in the agriculture sector. IWMI is
part of the international task force which ensures the
technical reliability of the information included in the
database; specifically, it provides content in
the area of "Water institutions and policies".
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Amélioration des Performances des Périmètres
Irrigués en Afrique Sub-saharienne (APPIA)
IWMI has been an active Partner within the
frame of APPIA interregional project, having the purpose
of improving irrigation systems performance in terms
of competitiveness, attractively for farmers and of irrigation
systems sustainability.
APPIA project is implemented in 5 countries of West Africa (Burkina
Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal) and 2 countries of the
Horn of Africa (Ethiopia and Kenya). IPTRID Secretariat did
the feasibility study and formulation of the project.
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