Comments on Issues Raised by Borrower/Implementing Agencies/Partners

7. Comments on Issues Raised by Borrower/Implementing Agencies/Partners

75. 
    No additional comments required.
    

On the comments from KfW:

76. 
    The Implementation Completion and Results Report (ICR) elaborated the project’s inability to deliver electrical power to all pumping stations (and consequently operationalizing fully all WUAs) at various places (see paragraph 21 for example), and captured the issue of project costs in the section on Efficiency. The ICR, as well as the borrower’s completion report found ‘continuous flow’ to be of limited benefit to the farmer and incompatible with the incentives at the farm level (see footnote 4 and Lessons Learned). Lastly, the ICR acknowledges the legal weakness of IWMD and how that could exacerbate issues related to sustainability (see Lessons Learned). However, as experience with other countries, including that in California in the United States, suggests, such legal changes have usually required a much longer period to align interests of all water users.
    

77. 
    The ICR indicates the reduction of costs at the farm level in the Results Framework (on page iii). Indicator 4 puts this as 50 percent. This is a snapshot and would vary with changes in relative prices of diesel compared to electricity. In terms of environmental sustainability/climate change, the ICR does not delve into details of various possible solutions but just indicates what was achieved under the project (see paragraph 57). The replacement of individual diesel pumps resulted in a decrease of 80.62 kg of CO₂ per feddan per year. With a total farm area of 85,200 feddans of improved mesqa area, it amounts to a reduction of 6,869 tons of CO₂ per year, not counting the CO₂ emitted for the generation of the electrical power. This is expected to go up further when all diesel pumping is replaced by electric pumps.
    

78. 
    The ICR in the Results Framework (page iv) reports 20 percent of beneficiaries to be women (based on gender segregated data in all soft aspects of the project that the IIIMP collected). The ICR downplays the provisions for women as elected members of water boards and so on, because the legal basis for them is incomplete, but has incorporated the NDC’s view of women’s role in water management in paragraph 56.
    

79. 
    Not available.