Reaching the Rural Poor Framework for The Rural Development Strategy of The World Bank Water - Discussion Draft -

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Reaching the Rural PoorFramework for The
Rural Development Strategyof The World Bank
Water - Discussion Draft -
http//www.worldbank.org/ruralstrategy
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Rural Development Strategy Update
Overview of Rural Development Strategy Update
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Goal 3
Ensuring Sustainable Use of Natural Resources

• Reducing the rate of soil erosion,
  desertification, waterlogging, salinization, and
  use of agricultural technologies that are harmful
  to the natural resource base.
• Remove distortions leading to unjustified loss of
  prime agricultural land to urbanization.
• Improve incentives for water use and for better
  delivery performance.
• Increasing agricultural productivity to avoid
  expanding food production into presently forested
  areas.
• Fully integrating sustainable natural resource
  management into rural development.

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Strategic Objective 4
Facilitate Agricultural Growth and
Competitiveness
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Strategic Objective 4
Facilitate Agricultural Growth and
Competitiveness
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Strategic Objective 6
Improve National Resource and Environmental
Management

• The increased relevance of water is recognized in
  the new strategy
• A critical resource for development, water is a
  looming crisis, especially for poor countries if
  present practices continue
• Increased resource degradation in upper basins
  and sustainability
• less water is a severe limitation for global and
  national food security
• Need more crop per drop (Double productivity in
  30 years)
• Rural poor lack water and sanitation services
• Water management contributes directly to reduce
  vulnerability, poverty alleviation, local food
  security and access to natural resources
• Watersheds and river flows (riverine ecology)
  must be protected

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Strategic Objective 6
Improve National Resource and Environmental
Management

• Approach
• Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
• Basin-level comprehensive management
• cross-sectoral integration
• multi-stakeholder participation
• Re-visioning irrigation and drainage
• Use economic and financial instruments
• More private sector
• user organizations
• water service companies
• Build policy and regulatory capacity in
  government
• Participation of stakeholders

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Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
(IWRM)

• Basin-level comprehensive management
• cross-sectoral integration
• multi-stakeholder participation
• Use economic and financial instruments
• More private sector
• Water markets
• user organizations
• water service companies
• Build policy and regulatory capacity in
  government
• Participation of Stakeholders

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Watershed Management Projects The New Generation
Integrated water-soil-forest management for
poverty alleviation and sustainability of natural
resources.

• Small portfolio (6 of rural) but growing
• New good practices in all regions
• Lessons for institutions, technologies,
  participation and incentives
• What to do
• more projects
• more learning and dissemination

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Re-visioning Irrigation and Drainage
Re-visioning Irrigation and Drainage

• Improving ID services..
• Getting the right balance.
• Institutions-Infrastructure-Technology
• The pillars
• Develop Production Systems for Irrigated
  Agriculture.
• Water Rights and Quality of Drainage Disposal.
• Support Access of Irrigation and Drainage
  Technology to Small-holders.
• Promote more Investment, especially from Private
  Sector.

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Improving ID Institutions

• Reforming ID Institutions
• Institutional Reform
• Building a platform for change
• Promoting Diversity
• Enacting Regulation
• Setting the right Incentives/Prices
• Benchmarking for continuos improvement
• Investment in infrastructure
• New Systems,
• Modernizing Existing ID Infrastructure
• Promoting non-farm activities
• Adopting Technology
• On farm

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Production Systems for Irrigated Agriculture
Increasing output under water scarcity and
changing markets
Increasing output under water scarcity and
changing markets

• Increase Research on new water-efficient plants
  and production systems
• Adjust cropping patterns to Global Trade,
  prices and new market opportunities
• Study production systems for irrigated
  agriculture.
• Pilot country studies.
• High value crops and diversification
• Controlled agricultural environment and green
  houses
• Effluent water and recycling
• Modern methods of water delivery and management
  of low quality water and
• Assistance/capacity needs for semi-subsistence
  farmers for their transformation.

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Water Rights and Drainage Discharge.Attaining
sustainable operations

• Attaining sustainable operations
• Link to River Basin Management
• Define water rights for systems and individuals
• Consider Drainage disposal and reuse
• Use multi-criteria analysis for New storage
• Improved reservoir operation for sediment
  management and ecosystem restoration for existing
  storage
• Attending Environmental security issues
• salt management
• flood management
• environmental flows (riverine ecology)

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Irrigation Technology for Smallholders. Reaching
the Poor Irrigation-Farmers

• Poor Irrigation-Farmers
• Focus on reaching small-scale farmers with
  affordable irrigation and drainage technologies
• Promote networking, technological innovation and
  adaptation for smallholders
• Document successful experiences
• Stimulate market oriented approach and private
  sector
• Establish Pilot projects in selected countries
• Formulate a Business Plan to scale up Bank
  Operations

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Promoting more Investment Specially from
Private Sector.

• Specially from Private Sector.
• Defining Levels/size of private sector entry
• Adequate Water fee
• Managing risks
• long term stability in rights
• markets and prices
• natural events
• Enacting effective regulation framework
• Definition of roles/responsibilities
• Prices/ Incentives
• Laws , by-laws, Agreements
• Regulations for resource, product, service
• Promoting meaningful participation and
  partnerships
• Stimulating Vertical Integration

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Rural Water Supply and Sanitation

• Water and Sanitation for the Poor
• High of rural population without services
• And the Urban-Rural gap is still growing ?
• Impact in health specially children mortality
• Participatory community driven approach
• Capacity building WSP
• Increasing lending through social funds
• More effort needed in future programs

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Implementation
Implementation of The Updated Rural Development
Strategy

• Bank Comparative Advantage in Rural Development
• Knowledge and experience
• Finance and policy mix
• Leverage with donors and other international
  institutions
• Power to convene
• Integrating sectoral, regional and global views
  in support of a Comprehensive Development
  Framework and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.

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Implementation

• What needs to be done to achieve our objective
• 1. Flexible and innovative approaches to projects
  in addition to the expansion of current best
  practices
• increased reliance on community driven
  development
• use of multi-sectoral lending approach where
  appropriate
• select instruments according to client readiness
  and conditions and
• greater participation in poverty assessments to
  ensure better diagnosis, strategy, and design of
  proposed interventions.
• 2. Obtain Bank management support for
  implementing the updated strategy, and secure
  their commitment to hold country directors
  accountable for reaching rural strategy
  objectives.
• 3. Regional and national strategies used as the
  framework of implementation.
• 4. Multi-sectoral RURAL ALLIANCE created on
  Bank- and regional levels plays coordinating and
  monitoring role.

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Implementation
Country Partnership in Implementation

• National Rural Development Strategies
• critical framework of implementation to build
  consensus between the Country, the Bank, and
  other donors
• developed by country-ownership
• consistent with national policies and
  international commitments
• integrated with the countrys sustainable
  development strategies (e.g., CDF, PRSP) and the
  CAS
• contain holistic and intersectoral approaches
• build on strong partnership and participation of
  all stakeholders in the country

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Implementation
Donor Partnership in Implementation

• shared mission of poverty reduction
• improved understanding of commitments and
  comparative advantages
• development of a coherent joint approach
• enhanced collaboration in project development and
  implementation
• mutual risk sharing in poverty reduction -
  matching donor grant with IBRD financing
• improved exchange of information and learning
  about success that might have broader
  applicability

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• http//www.worldbank.org/ruralstrategy
• On this website, you will find
• more updated information and a calendar of events
  related to the Update of the Rural Development
  Strategy
• downloads of background studies and regional
  strategies
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