Sustainable financial solutions for water user organizations

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Chi Trung, MSc. Nguyen Van Kien, MSc. Pham Duy Anh Tuan

PIM Center, Vietnam Academy for water Resources

Abstract: One of the new policies on irrigation management under the Law on Irrigation (2017) is the policy of converting fees to prices for irrigation products and services. However, due to different types of irrigation shemes and management capacity of irrigation works in different regions, localities implement differently policies supporting for using public irrigation products and services. On the basis of analyzing financial situation of water user organizations in different regions, this study proposes sustainable financial solutions for water user organizations to manage effectively the irrigation schemes, including: (i) Methods and mechanisms to support for using irrigation products and services. (ii) use effectively fund from state support for using irrigation products and services and (iii) solutions to strengthen capacity of water user organizations.

Keywords: Irrigation products and services, water user organization, financial autonomy

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