| Sector | water resources/irrigation, natural resources, agriculture & food security |
| Funding Agency | SDC |
| Project Location | Ramechhap |
| Province | Bagmati |
| Project Started Date | 3/1/2014 |
| Project Completion Date | 10/1/2014 |
| Project Status | Completed Projects |
| Clients | Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agricultural Roads (DoLIDAR), DDC, Ramechhap and LILI (SDC) |
The main objective of the project is to prepare the District Small Irrigation Master Plan and The specific objectives of the consulting services are as outlined below:
• Collect the information on irrigation potentialities and the irrigation service situation in the district, at catchments levels.
• Identify and prioritize the interventions related to irrigation facilities based on irrigation potentialities and available water resources for irrigation with participatory meetings in the district, ilaka and VDC level.
• Prepare Indicative Developmental Potential Map (IDPM) for irrigation services.
• Prepare the District Inventory Map (DIM) of all irrigation services.
• Prepare the Perspective Plan of small irrigation services and facilities; and
Prepare District Small Irrigation Master Plan (DSIMP) for small irrigation systems.
Description of actual services provided by our staff:
• Review of Secondary Sources of Information
• Collected the secondary information from the various district based line agencies, project/ programme, INGOs/NGOs, and other regional and central level organizations as required
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Collected primary data on the existing and potential irrigation services both the spatial and non-spatial from at catchments level within the district in prescribed format.
• Provided proper orientation training to the surveyors/enumerators for accuracy and efficiency in data collection within prescribed time period.
• Store the collected information on the computer and carry out the primary analysis to find the total agricultural and irrigable lands and coverage of by the existing irrigation services.
• Prepare the Indicative District Potential Map (IDPM)
• Prepared the Indicative District Potential Map (IDPM) according to the draft Approach for the Development of Small Irrigation Systems of DoLIDAR.
• Prepared the base map on 1:25000 scales, topo map and also prepare GIS maps in the final output.
• Validated the IDPM from the DDC.
• Prepare District Inventory Map (DIM) of irrigation services
• Prepared the District Inventory map (DIM) of the district showing all the existing irrigation services and facilities including the traditional irrigation systems by plotting on the 1:25000 topo-base maps.
• Carried out inventory survey with GPS of all the existing irrigation services and also identify the required interventions; new construction, rehabilitation, periodic maintenance, regular maintenance etc.
• Verified the DIM and finalize with discussion at DDC.
• Prepare the irrigation services coverage situation of the District
• Prepared the coverage map of irrigation services and facilities of the district at catchments/irrigable land cluster levels showing the coverage situation of the irrigation services and facilities.
• Identified the interventions required to provide/extend irrigation services and prioritize them based on the priority criteria in a participatory way.
• Organization of Validation and Area Workshops
• Organized validation workshop at or clusters of catchments level and present the irrigation services situation of the agricultural/irrigable lands within the catchments, prioritize the schemes through participatory approach and finally synchronize these at the district level; the participants of the workshops being from VDC/Ward representatives and secretaries, representatives of line agencies, DDC personnel, representatives of political parties, Women, Dalit and disadvantaged people, farmers/cooperative groups, WUAs, INGOs/NGOs, etc. working in the areas.
• Preparation of Perspective Plan of Interventions of irrigation services and facilities
• Prepared the perspective plan of interventions of all feasible irrigation services and facilities, which are identified from the coverage and IDPM and prioritized at the catchments level workshops.
• Discussed the interventions of services and facilities for the development/extension or maintenance of irrigation services in the DDC meetings and develop the final perspective plan of the small irrigation systems.
• Presented the perspective plan in GIS maps also.
• Preparation of District Small Irrigation Master Plan (DSIMP)
• Prepared the District Small Irrigation Master Plan in consideration with the perspective plan of the irrigation services and facilities with due attention to the interventions proposed in the perspective plan.
• Assessed the financial resource for the DIMP; prioritize the perspective plan according to Approach for the Development of Small Irrigation Systems, DoLIDAR.
• Get approval of the DIMP by District Council with recommendations from DDC for its endorsement.
• Incorporated all the comments and suggestions of workshops and comments from district and DoLIDAR during the preparation of final report and submit for procedural approval to DDC and also to DoLIDAR.