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Irrigation System Operation Efficiency Improvement Project (TA 7141-PHI) |
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The project will contribute to the Government’s MTPDP objectives of reducing rural poverty, increasing agricultural productivity, and enhancing food security. The envisaged investments to enable improved irrigation services to farmers are in line with the MTPDP to “make food plentiful at competitive prices.” The project will extend implementation of the NIA rationalization plan in parallel with World Bank investments in other systems. The PPTA will assist the Government in undertaking a review of the agriculture sector to identify binding constraints and opportunities to adjust ongoing programs to better focus efforts to ensure food security in the medium to long term. Institutional and structural constraints that limit agriculture sector performance will be assessed and an investment project formulated to increase agricultural production in selected irrigation systems. The impact of the proposed investment project is increased farm household incomes and reduced rural poverty. The outcome of the PPTA will be the formulation of an investment project that will improve agricultural productivity and production by (i) improving irrigation services and institutional arrangements that increase the role of water users in system O&M; and (ii) upgrading rural infrastructure, including irrigation systems, roads, and postharvest facilities of selected irrigation systems in Mindanao and the Visayas. The PPTA will be conducted in two phases: (i) agriculture sector and irrigation subsector analysis, and (ii) investment project design. Phase 1: Agriculture Sector and Irrigation Subsector Analysis will have the following key activities: (i) identification, analysis, and prioritization of binding constraints in the agriculture sector with a major focus on staple food production and food security, (ii) analysis of sector policies and development strategies, (iii) conduct of a diagnostic analysis of the constraints on performance of irrigated agriculture and the role of irrigation in national food production; and (iv) evaluation of irrigation subsector development needs, and (v) prepare a sector road map. Phase 2: Investment Project Design will formulate a sector-type investment project, including preparing and/or updating feasibility studies for core subprojects, and completing compliance and safeguard requirements and project packaging. Specific activities include (i) formulate subproject selection criteria; (ii) undertake participatory subproject identification and feasibility studies for core subprojects; (iii) identify candidate noncore subprojects, including potential for expansion of irrigated areas; (iv) prepare social and environmental safeguards and requisite action plans; (v) formulate social development strategies and action programs for development of service areas and provision of agricultural support services; (vi) assess NIA implementation capacityand support requirements; and (vii) formulate project packaging for implementation. PRIMEX Role in the Project Implementation PRIMEX is fielding the following specialists: (i) project economist; (ii) environment specialist; (iii) institutional and capacity development specialist; (iv) rural sociologist; (v) hydrologist and water resources specialist; (vi) irrigation agronomist; (vii) geodetic engineer; (viii) monitoring and evaluation (M&E) specialist; (ix) geotechnical engineer; (x) irrigation design engineer; (xi) irrigation design engineer; and (xii) financial management specialist. Dr. Jerome F. Sison- Project Economist
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