The ICID-FAO workshop on capacity development in irrigation and drainage was originally set up by Martin Smith (now FAO Representative in Madagascar) and organized by Daniel Renault, Water Resources, Development and Management Service (AGLW-FAO), with support from Robina Wahaj (AGLW) and Melvyn Kay, irrigation consultant to FAO.
The organizers are grateful to Catharien Terwisscha van Scheltinga (Alterra-ILRI) who contributed to the workshop in developing the strategy for the keynote paper by M. Kay and D. Renault, in presenting a synthesis of the outcomes on the topic of capacity building at the 9th International Drainage Workshop held earlier in September 2003 in Utrecht (the Netherlands), and in critically reviewing the synthesis of this workshop.
The organizers would like to thank Tom Franks, who chaired the workshop on behalf of the ICID, the authors of papers, Paul van Hofwegen, Akissa el Bahri, Alvaro Ledesma, Ylli Dedja, Ian Makin, Raymond Peter, Mwase Phiri and Laurent Compaore. Finally, the organizers would like to thank Olivier Cogels, International Programme for technology and Research in Irrigation and Drainage (IPTRID) for presenting a complementary paper.
