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Implementing agricultural water improvements in challenging contexts : Ghana

Implementing agricultural water improvements in challenging contexts : Ghana. 12 September 2012. Focus of IFAD investments: Ghana. Upper East Region Land Conversation and Rehabilitation Project Upper West Agricultural Development Project Northern Region Poverty Reduction Program

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Implementing agricultural water improvements in challenging contexts : Ghana

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  1. Implementing agricultural water improvements in challenging contexts: Ghana 12 September 2012

  2. Focus of IFAD investments: Ghana • Upper East Region Land Conversation and Rehabilitation Project • Upper West Agricultural Development Project • Northern Region Poverty Reduction Program • Northern Rural Growth Program

  3. What are the challenges? • Policy development, gap in implementation • Data: access and quality • Decentralization • Technical design • Community engagement

  4. Development and AWM challenges • Selection of sites: needs and factors • Low capacity of contractors • Low capacity in finance and admin • Delay in payments from development partners • Poor exit strategy (incomplete projects, transfer) • Low capacity to deliver services • Lack of coordination between MoFA and GIDA • Lack of data, inaccessible research results

  5. District level challenges • Partisanship at local level • Accountability upwards • Sub-structures of decentralization not created • Neglect of agriculture at local level • Lack of expertise in agricultural water at district level

  6. Community Level Challenges on Schemes • Watershed management – lack of compliance • Upstream management: siltation • Maintenance: WUA fees do not cover, low capacity of WUAs for O & M • Incomplete construction – supervision of contractors • Design challenges: capacity for O&M, multiple uses, livestock incursion into irrigated fields

  7. Community Level Challenges • Land tenure: seasonal user rights • Gender, participation and decision-making • Profitability challenges: • Market access and low prices for commodities • High cost of and lack of access to inputs • Small plot size • Appropriateness of investments in agricultural water (reservoirs, water lifting options)

  8. Community cited benefits of irrigation schemes • Increased food security • Higher cash income • Livestock benefit • Decrease in outward migration rates • Off-season work • Multiple use benefits

  9. Recommendations • Policy consultation, coordination, advocacy • Improving procurement, financial administration: building capacity, awareness • Project design: site selection, community engagement, O & M capacity levels, multiple use, integrated components, longer time • Extension service capacity strengthening • Strengthening SAKSS for research and data • Community engagement

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