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Enhancing Water Governance and Financing in Irrigation Reforms

This paper discusses critical issues around irrigation financing and governance, highlighting the role of donors and the private sector in promoting sustainable practices. It emphasizes the need for a legal enabling framework for effective irrigation reforms and analyzes the political economy of change in this sector. The document also addresses significant challenges such as corruption in large-scale systems and the impact of environmental lobbies. The potential institutional landscape post-reform and innovative financing strategies, including insights from China's practices, are explored further in the context of irrigation management and agricultural sustainability.

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Enhancing Water Governance and Financing in Irrigation Reforms

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  1. Issues not sufficiently covered in discussions • Role of donors and private sector in financing • Legal enabling framework for irrigation reforms • Political economy of change • What will institutional landscape look like? e.g irrigation sector could be squeezed by environmental lobbies • There was not enough discussion on how systems can me managed without IMT • No mention of corruption especially relevant for big systems, how to control rent seeking?

  2. Dealing with corruption leads to reduction in capital costs • Include corruption and similar issues within the broader framework of water governance • Emphasize on water governance • Any idea on how to update the irrigation investment data? • Issued bonds for construction of projects through state owned irrigation corporation

  3. In China, government investment is pre dominant, though farmers and companies also invest. • In China, last year central government increased investments by 20% and at the same time set up a committee to oversee spending...it helped curbed corruption? • Financing point of view, New Zealand experiment with selling off irrigation assets • Private GW investments higher than or almost equal to public SW in India

  4. Institutional reforms are as important as ever • Asian countries looking for support from ADB for irrigation sector, so declining interest in agriculture/irrigation from ADB is a concern. • Irrigation serving agriculture, so consider irrigation goes beyond infrastructure • Making the Executive Summary attractive to lay public

  5. Not enough case studies on management reforms in the Issue Paper

  6. Knowledge Hub: IWMI and FAO are partners, knowledge products and capacity building programs at FAO. • ICID view: Knowledge hub would be very useful for irrigation professionals, links with knowledge hub website • China: ICID President met Chinese water water minister and they are interested in the knowledge hub. • Role of knowledge hub on strategies for their donor countries • Capacity building services from the knowledge hub • Use share point on the K Hub to share the issue paper

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