5. • EUWI+ signed
– 6 national and 1 regional work programme
– With UNECE
• 11 NPDs
– 6 EaP and 5 Central Asia
– With UNECE
• 8 publications
• Delivery of 9 thematic studies
• Delivered 6 thematic meetings or workshops
• Organised 2 study tours
Highlights of reporting period
6. • EaP trends noted under EUWI+
– Capacity development
– Strategy development
– Association Agreements (3 countries)
• Whole of region
– Long-term water security
• Competition, allocation, availability
– Link to food and energy sectors and policy coherence
– State support
– Human and technical capacity
– Transboundary cooperation
– Impacts of climate change
• International obligations
• Economic instruments
Regional trends noted during period
7. • Regulatory and legal frameworks
– Water strategy development and implementation
– International Obligations
– River Basin Management
– Transboundary Issues
– Capacity Development
EUWI+ Work Programmes Developed
8. • Support decision making
• Evidence base
• Raise awareness of issues
• Cross-sector discussion
• Stakeholder engagement and local ownership
• Develop common thinking
• Secure international perspective
• Reduce risk of political resistance
• National and regional
Policy Dialogue Impact
11. Thematic studies delivered or ongoing
Study Impacts
Irrigation sector reform
• Socio-economic development
• Water-Food-Energy security
• Water use efficiency
• Policy coherence
• Institutional reform
• SDG alignment
• Economic instruments
• Polluter-pays-principle
Improving policy coherence
Introducing surface water charges
State support to water intensive
industries
Reform of rural WSS
Design and construction norms for
small-scale WSS
Strengthen irrigation tariff methodology
Water security indicators
Strengthening role of MPWI
15. • FinWater WEI II
• Irrigation sector reform
– Incentives for conservation
– Drive efficient use of water
– Driver efficient use of energy
– Enhance financial sustainability of sector
– Increase agricultural and water productivity
Tajikistan Case Study
16. • Setting Cost-Recovery Goals
• Reform programme includes principle of “user pays”
• Agricultural value for Tajik society:
– Food security, increased employment
• Policy decision: long-term cost-recovery goal
– Cover all O&M costs, cover O&M + capital costs
Guiding principles to promote efficient water
use in the irrigation sector of Tajikistan:
17. • Definition of tariffs:
– differentiated vs. uniform,
– consideration of real costs (operational,
maintenance, depreciation)
– different supply modes:
• Gravity
• Wells
• Pumps
Definition of tariffs for bulk water supply
18. • Convert from pumped to gravity irrigation
– Construct gravity irrigation schemes
– Construction of small reservoirs
– Limit the level of upper cascade lifts
– Reclamation of land under gravity fed areas
• Introduction of drip irrigation practices
– increase water use efficiency and reduce O&M costs of pumped systems
• Improved efficiency of O&M of pumps
– upgrading the infrastructure conveying pumped water
• Exempt irrigation water supply from taxation
Employment of economic instruments
19. Net profit of agricultural products in Soghd region and
the share of annual irrigation water fee paid by the
farmers according to different crops (in %)
21. • Implementation plan
– Embed analysis into decision making
– Opportunities for irrigation revolving fund
– State support and targeted social measures
• National level analysis
– Wider contribution to managing value of water
– Link to River Basin Management Planning
Next steps
In Armenia over 45% of reduction of electricity costs – Potential annual saving of 54 mln TJS
130 mln m3 of water storage, or annual saving of 9 mln TJS due reduced pumping costs
Pilot study conducted in 2011 in Soghd region of the country shows that for many agricultural products the net annual profit composes very little amount, and in many cases would produce a negative marginal value if the electricity subsidies were removed.