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BRIEFING ON SWHISA

BRIEFING ON SWHISA. by Ramiro Mayor-Mora, CTL June 29,2006. SWHISA Attendees. Dr. Getachew Alemayehu, Director General ARARI Ato Dereje Biruk, SWHISA Amhara Team Leader Ato Alemayehu Tekle, Head Irrigation & Watershed Design and Study Dpt, BoWRD

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BRIEFING ON SWHISA

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  1. BRIEFING ON SWHISA by Ramiro Mayor-Mora, CTL June 29,2006

  2. SWHISA Attendees • Dr. Getachew Alemayehu, Director General ARARI • Ato Dereje Biruk, SWHISA Amhara Team Leader • Ato Alemayehu Tekle, Head Irrigation & Watershed Design and Study Dpt, BoWRD • Ato Mesfin Gebremedhin, Development Cooperation Expert, BoFED • Dr. Ramiro Mayor-Mora, SWHISA CTL

  3. INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE OF BRIEFING • CIDA PROJECTS IN ETHIOPIA (14) AND AMHARA (9)

  4. SWHISA is, mainly • capacity building (institutional and community) • technology development and transfer (research, extension) • natural resource management • policy (linkage w/ Gov’t programs/support strategy develop’t) • cross-cutting (gender, HIV, environment)

  5. PROJECT HISTORY/DESIGN • Documentation • CEA Contract • Design Phase efforts

  6. Outline of Introduction • Project Preparation Milestones • Project Goal, Purpose and Expected Results • Partners and Participants • Interventions and Timing • Inputs

  7. Preparation Milestones • Definition and Initial Efforts by ANRS and CIDA • Selection of Consultant/ Design Contract • Design Phase (November 02- December 04) • Participatory Preparation of PIP • Contract Amend’t Jan. 2005 for Phase 2 • Mobilization to Bahar Dar in April 2005

  8. Project Goal • Increase food security of poor male and female farmers through IMPROVED WATER MANAGEMENT

  9. Project Purpose • To strengthen capacity of institutions involved in water harvesting and agriculture to work together effectively…… • in order to better service Farmer Associations, Communities, male & female farmer families….. • in planning, designing, implementing and managing sustainable water harvesting schemes and the use of water for irrigated agricultural production

  10. Expected Impact • Contribute to increased sustainable food security through: Improved water harvesting Improved irrigated agriculture Improved land management

  11. Expected Results at the End of project (1) • Improved knowledge and skills of farm families and community-based organizations in household water harvesting, irrigated agriculture and watershed management • Development of sustainable individual and community-owned water harvesting and irrigation schemes

  12. Expected Results at the End of project (2) • Strengthened woreda agencies and development of an integrated institutional platform at that level • Strengthened regional institutions and inter-agency cooperation • Strengthened sector agency coordination and cooperation

  13. Project Results

  14. Target Groups • Direct Target Groups • The poorest farmers  • Female-headed households • Women in male-headed households • Woreda institutions • The partner institutions • Indirect Target Groups • Community at large • Educational and training institutions • Other institutions • NGOs

  15. Amhara Regional Partners • Bureau of Agricultural and Rural Development • Bureau of Water Resources Development • Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute • Bureau of Cooperatives Promotion

  16. Other Regional Agencies participating • Bureau of Finance and Economic development • Environmental Protection, land admin.and Use Authority • Women’s Affairs office • Food Security Programme Coordination and Disaster Prevention Office • Bureau of Capacity Building • Amhara Water Works and Construction Enterprise

  17. Inputs to the Project • ANRS in kind contribution ( partners, supporting and collaborating agencies) • CIDA’s funding • Canadian and Ethiopian specialists and advisors • Community and family participation • Goods and Equipment • Training programmes

  18. Interventions • Household water harvesting pilot projects in 6 woredas (total of 60) • Irrigated agriculture demonstration/research at existing schemes • Experimental watershed for soil water conservation and other research (ARARI) • Small scale irrigation schemes training and studies (BOWRD and communities) • Assistance to the construction/equipping of 30 farmer training centres (BOARD) • Sedimentation studies at four existing reservoirs • Groundwater studies/exploration for water harvesting in 2 woredas • Special studies, coaching and training, office and lab equipment for the partners

  19. Selected Woredas • East Belesa- North Gandor • West Belesa-North Gandor • Goncha Sese Inese-East Gojjam • Delanta Dawunt-North Wollo • Lalo Mama-North Shewa • Were Illu-South Wollo • Plus Kobo and Mencha (irrigation)

  20. Management Structure

  21. Action to date • IMPLEMENTATION PHASE • PIP • Abridged Plan • First Year Plan • Second Year Plan (still in draft form)

  22. ORGANIZATION (1) • Committees (minutes) • Management by leaders and work split • Technical Subcommittees • Team groupings • Central Coordination office • Consultants within Bureaux • Field Coordinators at woredas (6 total)

  23. Woreda Coordinators GW 3 3 1 5 1 ARARI SWC BoWRD 4 2 6 Collaborators SWHISA CCO 1 3 BoCP BoARD 1 SWC 3 FTC SWHISA OPERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

  24. ORGANIZATION (2) • Weekly coordination meetings • Monthly progress reports by group • Monthly planning updates by group • Quarterly and semiannual reports • Annual work planning and plans • Administration • Support staff • Consulting team members • Bureaux counterparts

  25. ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Outcomes and outputs (results expected) • WBS • Schedules • Follow-up and reporting • Document production • Cross-cutting themes • Trainingprogram

  26. INTERVENTIONS IN WOREDAS (1) • HHWHS pilots- selection-construction • Irrigation demonstration and research-diagnosis • Reservoir sedimentation- instrumentation • SWC on selected watersheds • Watershed management pilots • Experimental watershed- Adet RC

  27. INTERVENTIONS IN WOREDAS (2) • Reconnaissance Surveys at Goncha • Guest house at Gohala • Equipping the WOAs • Equipping and building FTCs

  28. INPUTS TO AND WITH BUREAUX • workshops, courses, trainings- AutoCad/GIS • - procurement plan/IT/labs/Research centers • - Joint study at Gonj • - Extension efforts-TDT/FFG/DA diary/Draft extension policy • - Proposed Top-it-Up program for women • - Organization situation analysis- BPR framework

  29. NEW FRONTS • one more woreda this month, one at year end • ground water exploration in two woredas- E,W Belesa? Later in year • Subsurface dams potential • Scheme rehabilitation pilots (dam, others)

  30. PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS • National team completion- current needs • Full Canadian team • Schedule for this year • Personnel selectionprocedure • Hiring conditions/ negotiations /approval-contracts

  31. BUDGETS AND DISBURSEMENTS • Project funds • Disbursements (to date / projected for 2nd year) • Accounting/reporting • Current commitments

  32. OVERALL BUDGET (in 1000s) • Canadian Fees C$ 6,219 • Expenses 9,917 • Related to Consultants 2,323 • Ethiopian Consultants 1,187 • Operation Expenses incl. woredas 2,494 • Procurement bureaux/woredas 1,845 • Field Activities/Farmer Centers, GroundWater exploration, etc 1,975 • C$ 16,136

  33. Current Resource Utilization (end June ‘06) • All Fees C$ 2,116 29% • Expenses C$ 1,811 21% • Related to CanadianConsultants 565 • Operation Expenses incl. woredas 292 • Procurement bureaux/woredas 791 • Field Activities/Farmer Centers, GroundWater exploration, etc 163 • C$ 3,927 24%

  34. MANPOWER • Canadians Ethiopians • # months # months • Resident 4 152 • Specialist 22 194 21 1056

  35. MONITORING • Performance monitoring • Monitor’s work started last week • Need for ANRS Monitor?

  36. CURRENT • PSC MEETING LAST WEEK • Agenda change • Crucial topic from outside • Current internal review towards adjustment: next Quarter • Considerations/proposal by ANRS • What’s next?

  37. Thanks to CIDA and ECCO for giving us the opportunity to hold this exchange SWHISA-SWHIST • and • helping us in Amhara profit from SWHIST experience in Tigray

  38. Questions/ clarifications ?

  39. ANRS PROPOSAL AT PSC MEETING(Applicable to SWHISA as one of all Regional projects) • (Applicable to SWHISA as one of all Regional projects) • Adjust to include both capacity building and development • Stay within agriculture and water development • Overhead component of budget to be according to standards • Adjust the Project within a period of three months • Partner Bureaux to participate in adjustment exercise along w/CIDA • The Project continues

  40. EXPECTATIONS OF PARTNERS • Capacity building to be more practical and at woreda level in particular : learning by doing • At bureau level, capacity to fill gaps through local and external training including short and long-term. Respond to current gaps • Definition of hardware should come from Bureaux and woredas • Do not stay within pilots and move into development actions, scaling up • Management organized as facilitator. Line bureaux to participate in administrating project budget

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