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Draft Paper for Participatory Irrigation
Management National Seminar in Albania. Paper Prepared for the National Seminar on Participatory Irrigation Management Tirana, Albania (32 pages) |
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| Author | Helen Shahriari | |||
| Organisation | Economic Development Institute, now part of the World Bank Institute. | |||
| Year | 1997 | |||
| Summary/ Introduction |
The involvement of user
associations in operation and maintenance of irrigation
systems is fairly a new concept in Albania because of
over 40 years of centralized decision making. The legal
framework allowing transfer of management responsibility
for publicly constructed irrigation systems to local
control only started in early 1994. At the time, the
first World Bank irrigation project was being launched in
Albania. To guarantee sustainability and the building of
institutions, the project provided consultant services to set up Water User Associations (WUAs) on a pilot basis and to draft an Irrigation Code and Regulations for WUAs. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Small Scale Irrigation Rehabilitation Project (SSIRP) is also working on transferring irrigation schemes in the project areas to users. These efforts, and the determination of the Government of Albania (GoA) to eventually transfer all operation and maintenance of the irrigation system to the users, have resulted in successful transfer of some of the irrigation schemes. The main purpose of the study was to document the process of transferring operation, maintenance, and management responsibility for state-run irrigation schemes from Water Enterprises (WEs) to user associations; assess impacts, benefits, and costs; look at issues which may hamper this process; and identify factors which have facilitated the process. |
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