The Kampong Thom PDWRAM Director (right) showing to Team Leader Dr. Jose Galvez (center) the source of water that need to be managed so that it could continue to irrigate lands even during the summer months.
Location: Cambodia (Banteay Meanchey, Kampong Thom, and Siem Reap)
Client:Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology (MOWRAM), Cambodia
Duration: February 2012 – January 2017
Funder: ADB ADF
Associate Firm: DCCD Engineering, Inc. (DCCD), Philippines; Cambodian’s Action for Development Consultant Co. Ltd. (CADTIS)
Description:
Description of Project:
To address some of the key factors constraining poverty reduction and food security in Cambodia (viz., low factor productivity, lack of access to markets and information, weak rural financial services, need to strengthen policy reforms and institutions), the WRMSDP was designed to promote agricultural productivity and foster community-driven development (CDD) through investments in IWRM, irrigation facilities and services, institutional strengthening, and capacity development.
Objectives:
- strengthen the capacity of the Government and empower beneficiary communities to sustainably manage water resources;
- increase agricultural production in a sustainable and participatory way; and
- enhance beneficiary livelihoods and market opportunities for surplus crop, livestock and fisheries production.
The sector development program supports the process of:
- promoting national water reforms, including policies, legislation, and institutional roles;
- improving integrated water resources management (IWRM) in river basins, focusing on the Tonle Sap basin and the Strung Sen sub-basin; and
- strengthening irrigation services in a selected area of the Tonle Sap basin.
The Investment Component financed under the Project Loan will have one output (Output C), which will
(i) support the strengthening of provincial and district-level administrative capacity to implement the Project;
(ii) undertake a program of rehabilitation and improvement of about 15,000 hectares (ha) of existing irrigation schemes in the three provinces of Kampong Thom, Siem Reap, and Banteay Meanchey, all within the Tonle Sap Basin;
(iii) enhance the technical skills, livelihood opportunities, and capacity of FWUCs and farmers within the rehabilitated irrigation systems, and
(iv) supporting MOWRAM, Provincial Departments of Water Resources and Meteorology (PDWRAMs), Provincial Departments of Agriculture (PDAs), and farmer water users’ communities (FWUCs) in managing investment activities effectively and efficiently at national, provincial, district, and local levels to ensure that the Project is implemented on time and within budget.
Photos from the field:
Field visit and meeting with communes – PRIMEX EVP Guillermo Morales and Team Leader Dr. Jose Galvez visited some communes in Kampong Thom and Siem Reap in Cambodia from 16-22 March 2012 to start the implementation of the Water Resources Management Sector Development Project
