New Training Manuals for Water Users Associations

As part of the on-going projects on water sector and agricultural reforms in Uzbekistan, IWMI in Central Asia is actively collaborating with the ADB and World BAnk funded projects to produce a set of four manuals to train and guide water users associations in Uzbekistan. The four volumes of the training manuals are as follows:

• WUA Formation and Development
• WUA Financial Management
• WUA Operations and Maintenance (O&M)
• WUA On-Farm Water Management

The manuals will be produced in English and Uzbek.

The manuals rely upon several sources, including materials generated from the fieldwork done by the ADAS and IWMI teams, as well as the following source documents.

• Laws and decrees of the Republic of Uzbekistan
• Manual for Creating Water User Associations on the Territory of Restructured Agricultural Enterprises, Based Upon Decree No. 8 of the Uzbekistan Republic Council of Ministers, written by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources in 2003)
• Social Mobilization and Institutional Development Approach and Strategy, 2002, Mehmood Ul Hassan and Nargiza Nizameddinkhodjaeva for the IWMI-SIC project funded by SDC for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Ferghana Valley
• How to Establish a Water Users Association?:Practical Steps for Social Mobilizers, published March 2003, International Water Management Institute and Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Commission on Water Coordination for the IWMI-SIC project funded by SDC for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Fergana Valley
• A Brief Commentary on the Kyrghyz WUA Law for its Adoption as a Model by Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and Pre-Conditions to Establish WUAs/WUFs in the Ferghana Valley, 2002, Igor Petrakov for the IWMI-SIC project funded by SDC for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Ferghana Valley
• Manual on Formation and Empowerment of WUA, 2003, Piet Van Der Boom for the World Bank Uzbekistan Rural Enterprise Support Project
• Training materials of the World Bank Kyrgyz Republic On-Farm Irrigation Project, in particular the WUA Establishment & Development, Financial Management, Engineering (O&M) and the Water Management Modules
• Manual Concerning Organizational and Legal Matters in the Formation of Water User Associations and the Manual for Hydro-Technicians of Shirkats and Water User Associations, 2000, under Norboy Ghoyibnazarov's direction by the Mirob-A Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources for the World Bank's Uzbekistan Cotton Sub-sector Improvement Project
• Taxation and Accounting in Non-Commercial Organizations of Uzbekistan, 2003. International Center for Non-Profit Law and published with the financial support of the Open Society Institute
• Rehabilitation of Irrigation and Drainage Infrastructure - Design Guidelines, July 2003, Mott MacDonald - Temelsu Joint Venture in association with Uzdavmeliosuvloyiha Design Institute for the ADB Loan No 1833-UZB - Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project, Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, Rural Restructuring Agency
• Survey of Tax Laws Affecting NGOs in Newly Independent States, 2003, International Center for Non-Profit Law.

The series is the result of active cooperation between the ADAS team of consultants of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) technical assistance project (TA 3706-UZB) Institutional Support for Sustainable Agricultural Development (ISSAD), in support of the ADB loan project (Loan No. 1833-UZB) Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project (AADP) and the staff of the project for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Ferghana Valley (IWRM-Fergana) which is funded by SDC and managed by IWMI and SIC-ICWC.