Название практики | Collecting surface drain and saving water for the development of vegetable and fruit gardening to prevent pasture degradation | Holding the Integrated Water Resources Management Olympiad (Academic Competition) |
---|---|---|
Category | Water resources | Water resources |
Tool | System for enhancing water availability | |
Field of application |
|
Use of water resources |
Usability of practice for adaptation to climate change | High | Low |
Implemented by | Ministry of Nature Protection of Turkmenistan and German Technical Cooperation Agency (GIZ) |
Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University (KRSU) |
Used by |
Country: Turkmenistan Province: Ahal Region |
Country: Kyrgyzstan |
Local specifics | The site (9,000 ha, natural juniper woods) is located in the southwestern section of the Central Kopetdagh – a mountain and agro-environmental zone close to the border with Iran with the population of about 12,000 people engaged in agro-livestock production. |
|
Practice usage period |
Start date: 01.01.2009 End date: 31.12.2010 |
Start date: 01.02.2017 End date: 31.12.2017 |
Problem solved through this practice | Natural juniper is cut down as heating timber, and water shortage is connected to poor precipitation. As a rule, villagers collect surface water flowing down the mountain slopes into the specially built tanks called “goudans”. In good years, goudans keep enough irrigation water for one season. However, during the last 5-6 years the goudans didn’t fill up due to insufficient rain. Deforested slopes are unable to hold rainwater due to quick drain. Because of water deficiency, local population is gradually shifting away from agriculture and gardening and is increasingly focusing on livestock breeding. As a result of excessive use of pastures, fodder is not able to grow on the trodden land which leads to further erosion of mountain slopes. |
Insufficient level of objectivity while selecting candidates, i.e. selection of final candidates not based on their knowledge and skills but illicitly |
Tools used in the practice | Set of measures for collecting surface water drain on slope land (construction of a series of small dams; drip irrigation; planting out of juniper) |
Technique of knowledge assessment |
Description of the practice and its results | Actions:
Results:
|
Actions: The participants were offered to undergo 2 exams (written and oral) within the framework of the Olympiad. Finalists of the written test could go on to the oral exam. Results: 1 student was selected from among the candidates to participate in subsequent Regional IWRM Olympiad and the International Summer School “Methods and Means of Assessing, Modelling and Monitoring the Water and Land Resources of Central Asia” to take place in Almaty City. |
Lessons learnt and recommendations made | Lessons learnt: Enhanced methods of collecting surface drain and saving water are necessary to compensate the growing water shortage in order to allow communities to go back to agriculture and make cattle breeding more sustainable. They are also necessary to stop the increasing degradation of mountain slopes. Recommendations: Technologies for application in the future:
|
Formally, this competitive practice is routine while selecting the personnel/specialists for international and national projects, but their unbiased selection is not achieved in all cases. Quite often, various types of project participants are selected by way of “pulling strings” or based on the instruction of upper-tier agencies. |
Source of practice | Domestic tools (outcomes of research by domestic R&D organizations) |
|
Readiness for implementation |
1. Cost of implementation: High 2. Approximate cost of investment per 1 ha: 3. O&M costs: High 4. Expert support: Not needed |
1. Cost of implementation: High 2. Approximate cost of investment per 1 ha: 3. O&M costs: High 4. Expert support: Not needed |
Brief information on the project | Project title: Local-level capacity building and investment for sustainable management of land resources. Project duration: 2009-2010. Project goal and objectives: combating desertification and droughts. Project beneficiaries: population of Garavul and Konegummez daikhan settlements in Bakharly Etrap (district) of Akhal Velayat (Region). Project implementer: Ministry of Nature Protection of Turkmenistan and German Technical Cooperation Agency (GIZ). |
|
Funding source | UNDP and Global Environmental Facility | Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Repub-lic, Global Water Partnership (GWP) in Kyrgyzstan |
Information sources | http://www.water.kg/index.php/ru/itemlist/category/93-seminary-i-treningi |
|
Contacts of a person, who filled this form | SIC ICWC |
SIC ICWC |
Form submission date | 17.04.2018 | 30.03.2018 |