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groups. The council usually meets every one to three months. The number of staff depends on
the irrigated area that the WUA manages. It usually consists of a director, an accountant and
several mirabs, their number depending on the cultivated area (usually one mirab for about
500ha irrigated land).
Figure 11: Structures of the WUAs “Ravot-1” (Kanibadam, established by ACTED) and
“Mirob” (Shakhrinov, established by CFPS)
WUA „Mirob“
WUA „Ravot-1"
General assembly (35 persons)
Nine Water user groups
Conflict resolution
committee
(3 persons)
WUA Council
(9 persons)
Audit commission
(3 persons)
General assembly
Head of WUA council
Council
(1 person per water
user group)
Chair of the
council
Head of WUA
executive body
Manager
Accountant
Secretary
Hydro-
engineer
Accountant
Mirobs
2 Mirobs
2 M robs
2 Mirobs
Source: own compilation.
The basic incentive for the establishment of WUAs is the rehabilitation of the respective irriga
tion system, which is done using grants provided by a donor. 247 After a defined period of sup
port, the WUAs are expected to become self financing through the collection of irrigation
service fees (ISFs). The ISF per cubic meter varies, as it depends on each WUA how much
they collect. Those that are connected to the RaiVodKhoz must pay 1.2 dirham per cubic meter
to the RaiVodKhoz . Additionally, they collect slightly more to cover their own expenses. If a
WUA takes 1.4 dirham, for example, 0.2 dirham got toward WUA expenditures. Those WUAs,
which do not use water from the state managed infrastructure, collect ISF to cover their own
expenses for O&M.
There are no exact and official data on how many WUAs exist in Tajikistan, as the Min
VodKhoz does not gather information on all of the activities conducted by various donor
projects. 248 According to WSDS, there are about 40 WUAs (MIWM, UNDP, EC IFAS 2006:
18). The following table is based on data provided by the CFPS, ACTED, Winrock, MSDSP
(Aga Khan Foundation), and GAA on their WUA activities. It may, however, also include
247 Sometimes WUAs are established after rehabilitation to maitain the new technique; sometimes the establishment of
the WUA is a precondition before rehabilitation starts. The registration costs are often either covered fully or partly by
the donor. Occasionally farmers have to cover the costs fully themselves (ACTED 2005, Winrock International 2005).
248 While state officials blame donor organizations for not providing the information, the latter claim that they always
inform the khukumat of their activities and that it is their responsibility to circulate information inside the
administration to the respective ministries.
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