Date

Location

Activity

2017

Scoping phase, inception and country preparation.

June

Tehran

Signature of project document by MAJ

July

Cairo

Inception workshop

2018

Mar.

Cairo

Second inception meeting

Apr.

Tehran, Ahwaz, Ardebil

Scoping mission and visiting the land and water projects of Iran

May

Tehran

First NMDT meeting

May

Tehran

Meeting with Donor in Tehran

July

Spain

sub-regional Training on water productivity

2019

Feb.

Teheran and Aahvaz

International Training Workshop on Water Accounting: Concepts and tools (23-26 February 2019) coordinated by IRPID/ICID with FAO technical support. 1 day training session on rapid water accounting with 6 case studies. Involved 300 people in Teheran and Ahvaz.

Feb.

Urmia, Tabriz, Qazvin, and Tehran

Scoping mission to identify project study site and 2d NMDT meeting

Sept.

Tehran and Qazvin

Synthesis Workshop on FAO first webinar series on water accounting: the basics.

Dec.

Country wide

preliminary Baseline on crop water productivity for strategic crops from national literature produced and presented at the Regional Water productivity Conference (Tunis, Tunisia)

2020

Various events and trainings were planned during March to April, but had to be postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions.

June

Qazvin

Training on data collection for crop mapping using remote sensing.

July

Virtual

Presentation of the project results to key country stakeholders through Zoom59 participants.

July – Aug.

Qazvin

Preparation of farmer surveys on farmer practices vis-a-vis water.

July

Qazvin

First season data collection for crop mapping using remote sensing was done.

July – Sept.

Virtual

Training on REWAS was done, to assess real water savings. Thirty participants attended the training which took place over 3 months,  jointly with Urmia lake project.

Sept.

Virtual

Webinar on the case study of Rapid Water Accounting in Qazvin Plains was implemented.

Aug – Sept.

Qazvin

Finalizing data collection for crop mapping project.

Sept – Nov.

Qazvin

Preparing the initial outputs of seasonal crop maps of the Qazvin Irrigation Network using remote sensing technology based on the collected field data.

Nov.

Virtual

Presentation of the crop mapping methodology and initial outputs to the experts and stakeholders from the FAO-RNE, FAO-Iran, University of Cordoba, Ministry of Agriculture Jahad (MAJ), Ministry of Energy (MoE), Imam Khomeini International University, etc. to receive their feedback and improve the methodology and the results.

Nov – Dec.

Qazvin and Virtual

For the FFS project, two steps were taken. First, laying the groundwork and establishing a participatory labor organization and selection of three pilot sites. Second, training and capacity building of executive agents and trainers: the focus was on the facilitation. In-person training was also conducted on the ground while following the COVID-19 health cares.

Dec.

Qazvin

Finalizing seasonal crop maps of the Qazvin Irrigation Network for 2019-2020 crop year.

Dec.

Virtual

Conducting a two-day final training and experience sharing workshop for presenting principles of remote sensing application in crop mapping, the developed methodologies and tools, Google Earth Engine platform, and results, lessons learned and future adaption to the national experts, students and stakeholders.

Dec.

Virtual

Presentation of crop mapping projects in Qazvin Irrigation Network and Urmia Lake Basin as one of the webinars for the WP Crop mapping Webinar Series of the WEPS-NENA project at regional scale.

2021

Jan.

Qazvin

Starting the evapotranspiration, crop yield and water productivity mapping and irrigation water source mapping projects.

Jan.

Virtual

The first training workshop for the enumerators of the survey (FHS) was conducted.

Jan – Feb.

Qazvin

As the first step of the survey in the Qazvin Irrigation Network, 256 interviews were done with the farmers’ representatives to complete the inventory questionnaires.

Jan – Feb.

Qazvin and Virtual

The third step of the FFS was performed including evaluation and participatory planning on the site: preparing of a data base including the required information regarding all the farmlands as well as planning for assessing the operation of the different farmlands.

Mar.

Virtual

NMDT meeting for reviewing project activities.

Mar.

Qazvin

Updating the GIS maps of the farmlands and cultivation plans of the Qazvin Irrigation Network.

Mar.

Virtual

Webinar of Nexus and sustainability in theory and practice: Examples from Iran as one of the FAO Water-Energy-Food NEXUS webinar series.

June

Qazvin

Crop yield estimation was done in the Qazvin Irrigation Network for three main crops of wheat, barley and maize for 2019-2020 crop year through remote sensing and AquaCrop model.

July

Virtual

Presentation of the methodology and results of crop yield estimation in the Qazvin Irrigation Network in frame of a webinar as the 7th Water Productivity Talks webinar series.

July – Aug.

Qazvin

Finalizing the ETa maps of the Qazvin Irrigation Network from 2014-2020 using PySEBAL model as well as the ETa maps of the region for 2019-2020 crop year using the improved PySEBAL model based on Sentinel-2 data.

July – Aug.

Qazvin

Preparation of the crop water productivity maps of the Qazvin Irrigation Network for 2019-2020 crop year based on the provided crop yield and ETa maps.

July – Aug.

Qazvin

Finalizing the water resources maps of the farmlands in the Qazvin Irrigation Network through determination of the percentage of surface and groundwater resources in the irrigation of each field.

July – Aug.

Qazvin

Finalizing the reports on the perennial and seasonal rivers and wastewater uses in the agriculture sector in the Qazvin Irrigation Network.