Tanzania - River Basin Management and Smallholder Irrigation Improvement Project
Squire, Lyn | Deininger, Klaus
The objectives of the River Basin Management and Smallholder Irrigation Improvement Project are to: (1) strengthen the Government's capacity to manage water resources and address water related environmental concerns both at the national level, and in the Rufiji and the Pangani river basins; and (2) improve irrigation efficiency of select smallholder traditional irrigation schemes in these two basins. The components of this project are: (1) river basin management, which includes the following activities: (i) strengthen national water resources management by reforming the regulatory framework to improve stakeholder participation in river basin management, strengthen the water rights concepts and management, increasing penalties and raising fees for water use, and improve information gathering and analytical capabilities at the national level; (ii) improve both the regulator capabilities and the information and resources monitoring capabilities at the basin offices in Rufiji and Pangani; and (iii) rehabilitate the hydrometric network in the Rufiji and Pangani basins; and (2) improvement of smallholder irrigation schemes in which the Government will assist in setting up farmer organizations, and provide financing for the improvement of infrastructure to be maintained and operated by water-user organizations.
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