Training programme on participatory approaches for manual channel maintenance.

Description

The Manual Channel Maintenance Project (MCMP) was implemented to build planning and supervision capacity within the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI), and to ensure sustainability of manual channel maintenance (MCM) as an integrated activity within the ministry.

Services

NSCE was commissioned to review the technical assistance component of the Manual Channel Maintenance Project Phase II (MCMP-II) and to determine the level of experience, the degrees of responsibilities, main tasks, perceived performance gaps, etc. Participants in the area of participatory approaches were exposed to manual channel management, and to different ways of determining performance gaps resulting from Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and Practices (KSAP), deficiencies or a combination of all of them.

Based on the analysis of the training needs and the level of performance, NSCE tailored a suitable training programme that targeted priority performance improvement in the identified areas and eventually trained 113 district engineers and trainers in participatory approaches for manual channel maintenance.