Institutional Needs Assessment and Establishment of Drainage Users’ Association
Description
The Second National Drainage Project II was the second-phase of the government’s 12-year National Drainage Program 1991-2003. The main objective of the Program was to increase agricultural productivity on 1.77 million feddan through the establishment of good drainage conditions and the evacuation of excess water from the area.
The project’s objectives were to increase the agricultural productivity of about 0.8 million feddan of irrigated land by improving drainage conditions through evacuation of excess irrigation water with subsurface drains into existing open drains; and (ii) avoid yield and production losses on this land, which would result if waterlogging and soil salinity problems were to persist.
Other project objectives include building capacity in the Egyptian Public Authority for Drainage Projects (EPADP) through institutional support, technical assistance and training activities provided under bilateral donors’ assistance.
In addition, the project would assist in identifying and addressing the environmental issues resulting from the discharge of untreated raw industrial and domestic waste into a few open drains in the project areas.
The Second National Drainage Project, a World Bank supported project with a grant from the Japanese Government, aims at increasing agricultural productivity in Egypt through drainage improvement. Thus raising rural incomes based on the diversified, and sustainable production, resulting from appropriate uses of land, and water resources. Two of the Project’s components, specifically focus on
- supporting the management of the Egyptian Public Authority for Drainage Projects (EPADP), and institutional building through technical assistance;
- training provision, to establish pilot schemes for integrating irrigation, and drainage user’s associations in two Governorates.
Services
NSCE was commissioned to establish an institutional needs assessment for the organizational structure and function of the headquarters and regional directorates of EPADP, including assessment of staffing, training needs and information flow; and an assessment of the viability of establishing Drainage Users Associations (DUAs)