May 15 in Side Event "Improving Resilience by Strengthening Capacities for Integrated Water Resource Management in Landscaped". Presented by Dr. Stephan Krall, GIZ.

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Good Practices in
Small-Scale Irrigation
Dr. Stephan Krall, GIZ
Project Support to the National Small-
Scale Irrigation Programme (PASSIP),
Mali
Sector Project Sustainable Agriculture
IFPRI 2020 Conference
Building Resilience for Food and
Nutrition Security
Addis Ababa, 15-17 May 2014

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 Time since first application (maturity)
 Extent of application (acceptance)
 Significant positive impacts
(effectiveness)
 Sustainability
 Unit cost and economic benefit
(efficiency)
Our selection criteria for good practices
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 Planing : 6
 Engineering pratices : 9
 Agronomic pratices : 20
 Processing and marketing : 9
Total of good practices: 44
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• Planing
• Participatory planing of small scale irrigation schemes.
• Use of satellite images and GPS for designing irrrigation
schemes.
• Engineering practices
• Different types of dams
• Agronomic practices
• System of rice intensification (SRI)
• Processing / Marketing
• Storage of perishable products
• Organizing farmer marketing groups
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Example
Rehabilitating natural water inlets to flood
bassins (IFAD)
 Discharge of Niger
varies strongly with a
declining tendency
 Former flood basins
in the Niger delta
have fallen dry
 or water retreats too
early for agricultural
use
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 Excavating natural influents
to allow Niger water to
supply water to the basins
 Construction of weirs to
control return flow from
basins and avoid
uncontrolled flooding
 Negotiation of use rights
and obligations with users
 Creation of a farmer
committee for managing
each basin
Method
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 Reclamation and extension
of crop land and pastures
 Higher yields and
production
 Diversification of diets and
increase of income
 Strengthening resilience
through stable yields, higher
food security and income
 Raised groundwater levels
and eco-system benefits
Impacts
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 Six basins restored
with 33.000 ha
 Beneficiaries:
190.000 persons
 Average cost: 450
€ / ha
 35 % cost shared
by beneficiaries (in
kind contributions)
Implementation and costs
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Contributing organisations
 Ministry of Agriculture Mali
 Projects of different agencies:
GIZ, KfW, IFAD, USAID, Helvetas-Intercooperation,
Canadian Cooperation
 Organisations and firms:
Afrique Verte, Bornefonden, CES Consulting
Engineers Salzgitter, AHT Group
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Thank you
very much
for your kind
attention
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