Updated from the DGIB internal management system 'MIS'
May 1998
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DGIB MIS System
internal management system
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| Title : | Moneragala Irrigation and Community Developm.Proj. |
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| Description : |
* Location:
The project is located in the Moneragala District within the UVA Province.
* Recipient:
Local farmers and women.
* Components:
- Rehabilitation of eight medium-sized irrigation schemes - providing irrigation for 2.485 ha of agricultural land
- Diversification and intensification of agriculture - improving agricultural practises
- Livestock improvement - targeting people with little access to land and women in particular.
- Forestry and Environment - increasing plantation of trees, implementing a reservation/erosion plantation programme, a boundary fuelwood programme.
- Rural infrastructure - focusing three aspects: feeder roads, wells and drinking water and buildings.
- Health and Educational programmes - Health: implementing a programme to increase awareness of health matters, provision of seven health centres. - Education: providing an educational programme for local farmers to adopt technical and agricultural practices.
-Employment Credit Programmes - generating employment in the handloom sector, increasing employment of women.
- Training - supporting the National Youth Service Council Training Centre the Moneragala Technical Training College.
- Technical Assistance for the implementation of the project.
* Project outputs:
- Irrigation: irrigation schemes rehabilitated; Farmers' Organisations established and accepting responsibility of O&M.
- Agriculture: 50 agro-well irrigation schemes established with diversified crop production; improved agriculture established on 100 block demonstration areas; Bibile training centre rehabilitated.
- Forestry: 400 ha co-operative forestry established; 100 ha stream reservation/erosion forestry plantations established; 250,000 fuel wood trees planted in homelot boundaries; 4 demonstration plots for fruit species established.
- Livestock: 1,600 "improved" stock calves provided.
- Rural infrastructure: 153 km feeder roads constructed; 1 market centre established; |
| Objectives : |
- To raise income and hence the living standards of the rural population.
- To reduce the dependence on climatic variations and to secure the farmers incomes.
- To improve the employment situation among the youth and women, increase agricultural production, and improve the socio-economic environment of the area.
A labour intensive approach will be used in achieving the above named objectives.
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| Justification : |
* Technical:
The schemes date back to the 1950s, or earlier, when a lower level of irrigation was required. This is no longer appropriate and will be even less so in the next century. Hence, improved water management plays an important role in the rehabilitation designs.
Initial studies systems with the farmer groups will divide the schemes into two groups in accordance with the priority for improved water management in view of water shortages and farmer commitments. The priority systems will be "rehabilitated", the others will be "up-graded".
* Economical:
The economic justification turns on the contention that the physical rehabilitation of schemes, with the training in water management coupled with farmers praticipation and responsibility, will increase farmer confidence and shift them to a higher input-output cropping system. In addition, better knowledge, credit availability and marketing possibilities will open the way to an economic transformation.
The forecast farm budgets indicated that, with a moderate set of assumptions, very significant improvments can be obtained with increased cropping intensities, improved farming and irrigation practices, and diversification to non-paddy crops in the Yala season.
* Social and environmental:
The project will improve the situation on all fronts, stabilising and boosting agriculture, re-establishing the forests and improving the rural infrastructure and services. Two specialist women's programmes will be implemented.
Moneragala is comparatively well-forested. However, the rich forest endowment is under threat from shifting "chena" cultivation, logging and fuelwood extraction. The project contains a strong forestry component to reverse this trend, incorporation community involvement to ensure its sustainability.
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| Execution : | Financing Agreement: signed 13 July 1993
Committment valid until 31 May 2000
Project start: May 1995
Project implementation period: 5 years
Project termination: May 2000
TA contract: originally signed with Zollet: 8 Mai 1995 - following his bankruptcy, contract signed with CTS 20 November 1996, duration 3.5 years.
TA firm: Cargill Technical Services
TA experts: Mr. R. Stevenson, Co-Director
Exec. agency: Ministry of Plan Implementation
Location PMU: Moneragala
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION to date:
* Overall project achievement: OWP just approved. Little progress to date apart from planning.
* Organisation and Management: PMU established. Further recruitment in process. Some equipment purchased.
* Sustainability: to be assessed.
* Gender: to be assessed.
* Environmental impact: to be assessed.
COMMENTS/ISSUES to follow up:
- Long delay in start up due to:
1. Time taken to appoint TA consultants.
2. Desagreement between GoSL and EC regarding procurement methods, funding flows and control of PMU bank account.
3. Late Submission of OWP
4. Mismatch of TA inputs to OWP approval resulting in departure of training specialist before any recruitment of counterpart or activities had taken place.
- Second AWP 1997 endorsed by the Delegation 18/6/97.
- MTR: has to be postphoned, because no physical activities yet!
- Provincial Authorities week: Forestry Department, Local Project Director.
- PMU - is not an implementing agency, should coordinate!
See also Mission Report of JHG of 06 June 1997.
If there is no change until Sept./Oct. 97, Mr. Uusitalo should send a letter to GoSL. He should referre to the signed FM, indicating, that the PMU (Project Director)should have the power in decision taking without endorsement from his hierarchy in Colombo. Otherwise project will be closed down.
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