📋 Tender Overview
Location
Pakistan
Duration
Start
Nov 2024
End
Jun 2029
Budget
AUD 3,000,001
Activities
Work with national and provincial water agencies to enhance their use of decision support tools, specifically the Water Apportionment Accord Tool, which is being used successfully in Pakistan for pre-season (Kharif, Rabi) water allocation planning.
Engage with local communities to understand the local context and practicalities, impediments to and appetite for trialling different water-wise options, including, off-farm and/or on-farm water storages.
Technical and socio-economic activities, such as village-level water accounting studies, and surveys of community attitudes, current practices and capacity to adapt to change and adopt new technologies, will be undertaken to be able to assess the social and economic benefits of a more reliable irrigation water supply to different groups within local irrigation farming communities.
All project activities are designed and will be implemented as capacity development activities with the ultimate goal of handover of products and delivering on outcomes.
Outcomes
Improved knowledge and understanding of the impacts of climate change on the flow regime and reliability of irrigation water supplies.
Enhanced knowledge base and capacity for water allocation procedures and practices in Pakistan.
Better informed water allocation decision-making for climate change adaptation and resilience and sustainable use of water resources.
Farming communities are better informed on a range of water management options supported by water-wise initiatives and on anticipating and planning their irrigation for improved farm production.
