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Water Users' Associations Development in Southeastern European Countries

Proceedings of "Regional Workshop on WUAs Development"

4-7 June 2007, Bucharest, Romania

Eighth International Seminar on Participatory Irrigation Management, Tarbes, France, May 8-13, 2005

INPIM conducted the Eighth International Seminar on PIM successfully at Tarbes, France.  The seminar was attended by over 120 participants representing 34 countries and focused on the theme of  "Emerging Trends in Public-Private Partnerships in the Irrigation Sector".  The seminar provided an excellent opportunity to discuss on the various dimensions of public-private partnerships in the irrigation sector besides having a detailed interaction with the CACG.  The seminar was sponsored by INPIM, the World Bank and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France and organized by INPIM and CACG.  The seminar included presentations, sharing of country experiences, group work and a one day field visit to the Canal de la Neste managed by teh Coteaux de Gascogne located in Tarbes.  Read more...

International Capacity Building Program on Participatory Irrigation Management, Menemen, Turkey

INPIM and DSI the General Directorate of Hydraulic Works, Turkey conducted  the "Capacity Building Program on PIM" in Turkey from December 5-14, 2004.  The 10 day intensive training program aims to give the range of issues and challenges in PIM to WUA Managers, policy makers, senior irrigation engineers and faculty of training institutes involved in irrigation management.   The program was conducted by International and National resource persons and included a two day field trip to Turkey's irrigation systems and water user associations.  for details visit the capacity  building program page on this website.  The CBP program will be conducted in 2005, watch the website for the date of the training program. In the past, INPIM and the World Bank Institute had launched a similar initiative from 1998-2002 at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute in Bari. 

Seventh International Seminar June 13-18, Hotel Sheraton, Tirana, Albania

The Seventh International Seminar on Participatory Irrigation Management was  held from June 13-18 at the Hotel Sheraton, Tirana, Albania.  The Seminar sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Tirana and the World Bank was organised by INPIM, ANPIM (Albania Chapter of INPIM) and the Project Management Unit, Albania was attended by over 130 participants representing 26 countries.  The seminar afforded an excellent opportunity for participants to interact and discuss on the key issue of "enabling an environment for building sustainable and productive water user associations".  The seminar included a keynote presentation, and several country cases and with a special focus on  Albania, workgroup discussions and field visit to water user associations.  View the highlights of the seminar

INPIM launches  a new website:

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The INPIM website has been made fully functional for the benefit of viewers and members.  Viewers may send in their feedback to INPIM. See a new feature on  Frequently used terms; Seminars and Farmer Networks.   The new section on Topic Pages includes a feature where readers can also send in their comments or suggestions!.  We have also added a new section called Discussion Forum to enable members to start a discussion thread on topics of mutual interest. We encourage you to give in your feedback.  You can now register to the INPIM E-Newsletter through the INPIM website

International Capacity Builidng Program on Participatory Irrigation Management

INPIM  and DSI Turkey are pleased to announce the  International Capacity Building Program on Participatory Irrigation Management to be held at the  International Agro Hydrology Research and Traning Centre Menemen, near Izmir, Turkey.  The Training program is aimed at Trainers of Training Institutes, Policy Makers, WUA and Irrigation District Managers.  The training program builds further on National Initiatives and gives an overview of international experience in irrigation reforms and PIM.  In the past INPIM and the World Bank Institute conducted the first set of International Capacity Building program on PIM at the Mediterranean Agronomic institute in Bari, Italy.  The program was conducted over a period of five years and focused on creating awareness on PIM.  The present initiative will feature on more practical aspects of WUA management, organisations, financial and legal framework.  The training program will form an excellent complement to the National Training Programs of countries where it exists.  The first program under this series conducted in December 2004 ( view details of the program) drew an unprecedented response.  The next program is slated for September / October 2005.  View this website for details.

Promoting Farmer Networks for water sector reform in south India

The project takes the general advocacy of participatory approaches to its logical conclusion by initiating networks of farmers in order to increase and strengthen their role in water sector policy formulation and implementation.  INPIM has launched a pilot project promoting farmer networks in three South Indian States of Andhra Pradesh ( AP JalaSpandana), Karnataka ( Pragathi) and Tamil Nadu (TVNN).  The three networks are being co-ordinated by Jalaspandana an NGO registered and based at Bangalore in the State of Karnataka.  The three networks since their formation in 2004 have been actively engaged in policy advocacy with the respective governments, capacity building of farmers, farmer-farmer interactions, identification of issues at the project, district and state level.  The Networks have been constituted by the farmers and water user associations of the respective states.  Read more...

Discussion Forums at the INPIM website:

INPIM features a full fledged discussion group to enable its members to start a discussion thread.  view the discussion form at the inpim website.  Members desirous of starting a discussion thread are welcome to register and login and start a thread right away.  Discussion threads provide opportunities for member interaction, response and feed back to current issues in irrigation reforms and PIM.