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- PublicationEastern Nile Irrigation System Performance Assessment and Option for Improvement - Country Report - South Sudan(2019-09)Improvement of irrigation performance -The pressure to produce more food with fewer resources requires that performance in terms of both water and land utilization taut improves. To achieve this, irrigation managers, whether at national, system or farm level, need to work together and harder to meet the challenge of the future. In light of this scenario it is perhaps surprising that few irrigation institutions include rewards for high performance as an incentive for staff to try to improve productivity: most irrigation agencies have not adapted to the management challenge following their establishment and growth as design and construction agencies. At the same time, there are few clear and comprehensive guidelines available to agencies or managers that can help them in the institutional and technical transformations that are prerequisites for achieving high performance.
- PublicationEastern Nile Irrigation System Performance Assessment and Options for Improvements - Country Report Ethiopia(2019-10)The principal objective of the study is to establish a knowledge base for irrigation development in the Nile Basin that can be used to guide national and regional water resources development planning. In line with this it presents a comprehensive picture of the current situation regarding the irrigated areas, their water use and the irrigation technology currently used in the Eastern Nile. Accordingly the study, presents an inventory of existing and planned irrigation projects, data on the planned schemes, and estimate of existing and planned water use. It also identifies factors that contribute to the current level of crop and water productivity, and an over view of the socio-economic settings in which the projects operate. It also reviews the policy environment in which the irrigation projects are planned, constructed and operated, which encompass, policies, legal framework, institutional structure including the private sector. The study presents recommendations for improvement, based on the analysis conducted and establish data base that provide information on, planned, under implementation and existing irrigation schemes.
- PublicationEastern Nile Irrigation System Performance Assessment and Options for Improvements Country Report South Sudan(2019-09)The Republic of South Sudan is a landlocked country in East Africa and borders Sudan (1,937 km) from the north, Ethiopia (883 km) from the east, Kenya (232 km), Uganda (435 km) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (628 km) from the south and the Central African Republic (682 km) from the west. South Sudan has land area of approximately 640,000 square km (excluding Abyei) with a population estimate of 8,260,490 inhabitants, of which 82% live in the rural areas (approx. average of 13.5 persons per square km) and an annual growth rate of 55%. South Sudan has an estimated population of 8,260,490 inhabitants (the Sudanese 5th Census 2008), of which 83% live in the rural areas and 17% in the Urban areas (approx. average of 13.5 persons per square km) and xviii Eastern Nile Irrigation System Performance Assessment and Options for Improvements an annual growth rate of 3.8. As per now 2019 the population estimate is 12,778, 250 with growth rate of 3.7 (population projection 2015-2020 by National Bureau of Statistics, March 2015). The main feature of the country is the White Nile river extending over clay plains and slopes gradually rising southward to mountains up to 3 000 meters above sea level in the Imotong Hills. The Sudd wetland is the inland delta of the White Nile and one of the largest swamps worldwide. It consists of lakes, marshes and extensive floodplains, some parts of which are infested by insects which are hazardous to humans and livestock.
- PublicationEastern Nile Irrigation System Performance Assessment and Options for Improvements Country Report Ethiopia(2019-10)The principal objective of the study is to establish a knowledge base for irrigation development in the Nile Basin that can be used to guide national and regional water resources development planning. In line with this it presents a comprehensive picture of the current situation regarding the irrigated areas, their water use and the irrigation technology currently used in the Eastern Nile. Accordingly the study, presents an inventory of existing and planned irrigation projects, data on the planned schemes, and estimate of existing and planned water use. It also identifies factors that contribute to the current level of crop and water productivity, and an over view of the socio-economic settings in which the projects operate. It also reviews the policy environment in which the irrigation projects are planned, constructed and operated, which encompass, policies, legal framework, institutional structure including the private sector. The study presents recommendations for improvement, based on the analysis conducted and establish data base that provide information on, planned, under implementation and existing irrigation schemes.
- PublicationEastern Nile Irrigation System Performance Assessment and Options for Improvements Regional Report(2019-10)The principal objective of the study is to establish a knowledge base for irrigation development in the Nile Basin that can be used to guide national and regional water resources development planning. The study presents a comprehensive picture of the current situation regarding the irrigated areas. In spite of the role played by irrigation, and large amount of water committed to irrigation, it is widely believed that the performance of many irrigation systems in the Eastern Nile is below expectations, in terms of both water use efficiency and agricultural productivity. Irrigation developments are also generating mounting environmental and health concerns. The study was conducted by four individual consultants, one International Consultant and three National Consultants (one from each Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan). The International Consultant prepared an inventory of the existing and planned irrigation developments in Egypt from available sources. The four Consultants prepared an inventory of the existing and planned irrigation developments in each of the four Eastern Nile countries which included estimates of annual cropped areas, irrigation technology, crop mix, crop and water productivity, actual volume of irrigation water used and explained the institutional set-ups in which irrigation developments are operating including policies, legal frameworks, institutional structure, public/private role (including the role of farmers associations), human resources capacity, financing development and O&M. It also identifies factors that contribute to the current level of crop and water productivity, and which encompass, policies, legal framework, institutional structure including the private sector.