gbf 2015, april 16th, presentation of mr. volker frobarth

A programme

funded by

In cooperation

with

Transboundary Water Management in

Central Asia Programme

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Practical experiences from water

management projects in the context of

irrigated agriculture in Central Asia

Key facts

Political context

Donor

Central element of a water initiative for Central Asia – the ‘Berlin Process’ (since

2008); EU Strategy for Central Asia

German Federal Foreign Office;

Phase II contains two EU-actions (WMBOCA Component, EURECA )

Period Phase I 04/2009 – 12/2011; Phase II 2012 -12/2014 ; Phase III 2015 – 12/2017

Funding incl. EU Actions 23 Mio. EUR

Programme objectiveThe Central Asian states jointly develop practical approaches for sustainable

regional water management and implement selected measures.

Regional Scope |

Political Partners

All 5 Central Asian states

• National partners:

Ministries / Committees responsible for Water Resources in 5 CAS

+ MFAs

+ Ministry of Energy and Industry of TJ (Phase I)

+ Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan

• Main regional partner:

EC IFAS

(Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea)

Implementation Partners UNECE, CAREC

EU Co-Financing:

Water Management and Basin Organisations in Central Asia

(WMBOCA)

• Component of EU Regional Environmental Programme for

Central Asia (EURECA)

• 2 Lots, totaling 2,5 Mio EUR – with contribution of 0,5 Mio EUR

from German Federal Foreign Office

• Implemented from 01/2012 – 08/2014 in cooperation with CAREC

in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan

Subcomponent 1: institutional capacity

development for IWRM in river basins

Subcomponent 2: Public awareness and

participation in the water sector

Funded by the

European Union

Water from the mountains feeds irrigation fields in the valleys.

Fed mainly by snowmelt, riverbeds are full with water in spring and almost dry in late summer.

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Source: Executive Committee, International Fund for saving the Aral Sea

Facing the legacy of the Soviet Union: Challenges for

water management after independence

• The remnants of the drying Aral Sea, now shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

• Large agricultural areas suffering from degradation and salinisation

• Huge hydro-technical facilities and infrastructural systems that had to be

maintained (approx. 50.000 km inter-farm, 250.000 km on farm irrigation canals;

80 reservoirs > 100 mln m³; pumping irrigation accounting for up to 20 % of

national energy consumption)

• The dissolution of the centralised agency that managed water allocation and

provided for implementation

• A water management system mainly oriented at agricultural needs, entitling the

downstream states to use most of the water

• The discontinuation of the water-energy exchange system that delivered energy

in the form of coal and gas to the upstream states in winter, in exchange for

water withdrawal in the growing period in spring and summer.

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Pumps

Water efficiency


Trends…

Public Private Partnerships

…for local production of water saving

equipment?

Financing water infrastructure / water accounting


Water accounting is the process of communicating water resources related

information and the services generated from consumptive use in a

geographical domain, such as a river basin, a country or a land use class,

to users such as policy makers, water authorities, managers, etc.

Trends…

The River Basin Approach

Many endeavours for finding region-wide water agreements failed due to the

intricate regional constellation. Thus, GIZ facilitated exemplary cooperation in

smaller trans-boundary river basins. Some concrete examples are:

• Rehabilitation of irrigation channels and headworks for better control of water

distribution and reduction of water losses

• Rehabilitation of hydrological monitoring posts and equipment with electronic

sensors for reliable data on water flow and withdrawal

• Data collection and management including reporting to the national level in order

to have a proper base for informed decisions

• Development of watershed & land use maps to enable long-term planning

• Basin-specific scenarios of climate change and its impacts in order to improve

adaptation measures and disaster prevention

• Integrating all stakeholders in Basin Planning / Implementation of Basin Plans

inter alia by providing for Public Participation, establishment of Basin Councils as

consultative bodies for water management authorities

• Establishment of a transboundary coordination and cooperation mechanism

KG-TJ Inter-ministerial

Working Group

Local Governments ofSugd Oblast, Isfara

and KanibadanRayon

Local Governments of BatkenOblast, Batkenand Leylek

Rayon

NGOs, WUAs, farmers and local

population

NGOs, WUAs, farmers and local

population

Programme Steering Group

GIZ-Programme Action Team

Government of Kyrgyzstan

Government of Tajikistan

Ministry of Amelioration and Water Resources

WMO ofSugd Oblast,

Isfara and KanibadanRayon

WMO ofBatkenOblast,

Batkenand LeylekRayon

Department of Water Resources and Melioration at

the Ministry of Agriculture and

Melioration

International Partners: SDC, USAID-CAREC

International Experts (CAREC,

GIZ)

Representatives from related

sectors

Basin Committee of Isfara River

Joint Water Commission

Secretariat ofIsfara Basin Committee

TJ KG

Basin Planning Working Group

Representatives from related

sectors

Basin Council

EU

Framework

Agreement -

mechanism of

cooperation

Database tools and

management

Joint institutions

Basin

planningPublicparticipation

Infrastructure Pilot Projects

Basin Planning & The case of the Isfara River

Trans-boundary cooperation

A programme

funded by

In cooperation

with

Thank you!

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