and partners who have deliberated various
implications of emerging socio-economic
scenarios and their effect on AWM issues.
ICID network, which serves National Committees
(NCs), irrigation and drainage professionals,
farmers, policy makers, irrigation and drainage
industry, researchers and the academia, and
the society at large, aims to advocate an
enabling integrated policy environment for
facilitating multi-disciplinary innovations to
increase land, water and crop productivities
in a sustainable manner in a changing climate.
A symbiotic network such as ICID will remain
only as strong as its members and partners.
Ideally, NCs include experts from water
resources, irrigation, agriculture, rural
development, hydro-power, environment,
and flood management sectors. In majority
of countries, NCs are hosted within one of
the related government departments dealing
with the subjects and include representatives
from research institutions, universities, private
sector companies, and in some cases farmers’
groups. Through ICID, NCs undoubtedly
serve as an important link between nationally
produced knowledge and global AWM
stakeholders and communities. ICID partner
organizations also play a significant role in
contributing to this continuous build-up of
subject-matter knowledge body.
In order to realize the vision, ICID has set
clear organisational goals for the network
that will enable NCs to re-confirm or re-orient
their national goals or will help establish
specific goals at the national level, addressing
the specific national needs. ICID Vision 2030
sets out six organizational goals as in the picture:
With support from the experts participating
in different technical Working Groups (WGs),
Goals in the Action Plan of ICID’s Vision 2030