81287282-Water Resources Management

IRDP/TRIGGER aims to boost added value of agricultural production in Tajikistan. It has five outputs through which it will i) improve the business enabling environment and policy dialogue; ii) increase productivity of agricultural value chains; iii) promote the access to export markets; iv) support business start-ups and promote entrepreneurship and v) improve the enabling environment in the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM). The strategy of IRDP is designed to increase the income of value chain actors through a market-oriented value chain approach. At the core of the strategy is the support of community-based extension services (village advisors) and the matchmaking between smallholder producer groups and lead companies with business relationships to domestic and export markets. IRDP/TRIGGER, through its water component, supports the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources in the implementation of the Water Sector Reform Program (2016-2025). This Program was adopted based on the decision of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan under No. 791 as of 30 December 2015 to achieve the objectives and principles of the Water Sector Reform. Basin management and IWRM are the main principles of the reform programme. The programme reflects matters in all water-related subsectors and includes an action plan for the implementation. The implementation plan consists of the following sections: "Legislative development and regulation", "Institutional development", "Infrastructural rehabilitation", "Auxiliary means of water sector reform" and includes 35 activities in these spheres. The reform assumes a transfer of water resources management functions from administrative boundaries to hydrological basins applying the principle of IWRM including the separation of functions between water policy and regulation and economic and operational water management aspects GIZ supports the Water Sector Reform Programme under the Integrated Rural Development Project (IRDP) financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and co-financed by the European Union. Particularly, the water component of IRDP/TRIGGER aims to improve the enabling environment in the water sector in Tajikistan and introducing IWRM as an integral part of development planning. The water component support efforts at river basin level in the Zarafshon and Upper Vakhsh river basin to formulate, implement, monitor and evaluate two river basin management plans following IWRM and good water governance principles. To this purpose the role and institutional strengthening of corresponding River Basin Organizations and River Basin Councils is of utmost importance. In this regard, the Project strengthens the enabling environment for the implementation of IWRM in both basins to unlock agricultural potential, in accordance with the priorities set forth by the Water Sector Reform Programme (2016-2025), by targeting its activities at different levels, such as, policy making, legal framework, management instruments and financial mechanisms relevant for IWRM. The water component improves the institutional capacities of stakeholders to mainstream IWRM in development plans that are relevant for farmers, producer associations and processing companies at national, regional, district and local levels. To do so, we incorporate several approaches, such as IWRM, good water governance principles, water security, climate/water resilience and Nexus, among others.