ICID AnnuAl RepoRt • 2010-11
From the Secretary General
It is my privileged pleasure to place before you the 61st Annual Report of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) covering various activities that took place between April 2010 and March 2011.
The hallmark of 2010-11 was the impressive ICID annual events in Yogyakarta in October 2010. The 6th Asian Regional Conference held alongside the Council meetings on the theme on “Efficiency improvement under small land holding conditions” was quite successful. The lead participation of key global organisations like ADB, FAO, UNW-DPC etc. added value. These are apparent under the relevant chapters in the Report. Apart from our annual event in Yogyakarta, there were quite a few events that took place with several national committees’ support. For example,
ICID.UK’s Spring Seminar on ‘Do we have enough Water’ and later, the one in Summer touching upon ‘Water Security’, AERYD’s (Spanish National Committee) Symposium on ‘Soil - Water measurement using Capacitance, Impedance and TDT’, the Australian Irrigation Conference and the 3rd McGill Conference on Global Food Security in Montreal, Canada stood as valuable contributors to enrich the knowledge base on the subjects they addressed. Regional efforts that brought out ‘continental’ as well as ‘global’ experiences include the 24th European Regional Conference in Orleans, France on the theme Groundwater Management. Overall, ICID’s mission to focus on agricultural water management stood enhanced in all levels, global, regional and national in different places spread out across continents e.g. Brazil to Sydney: thanks to ‘local actions’ by our National Committees for a ‘Global Challenge’! We have touched upon some of them in the relevant Chapters of this Annual Report, briefly.
The ‘mutual sharing’ of knowledge and experiences grow with our special efforts to partner with sister organization at global and regional levels. Our key role in contributing to the World Water Fora on ‘Water for Food’ continue. The signing of a MoU to strengthen the efforts of UNW-DPC in capacity building (and holding an international workshop to promote FAO’s AquaCrop model), participation in WWAP’s TAC for the preparatory processes on WWDR 4, support to GWP and IWMI in their regional efforts to look into Asian Irrigation Scenario etc., stand as testimony in this regard.
Efforts to strengthening ICID looking beyond our conventional mode of functioning received a boost during the year when IEC endorsed the proposals for broadbasing ICID (at global level) in principle and constituted committee to evolve suitable ‘modus operandi’. We also took a bold decision to invigorate the entire approach to ‘technology research in Irrigation and Drainage’
Friends,
I do have a few words to add this time. ever since my assumption of Secretary General’s office in January 2004, I had been reporting to you on our accomplishments. It was indeed an honour that I could have this privilege for eight years, in succession. Since this will remain as the last Annual Report that I present (given that I shall be relinquishing my office once my successor takes over, sooner than later), permit me to record my sincere thanks and gratitude. the excellent cooperation and undiminished faith in me all through from each one of you made my role as Secretary General possible, all along. I value them immensely. I shall cherish my association with this great organisation for all time to come and continue to contribute to ICID Mission as long as I can.
let ICID be blessed with a glorious future, by God’s Grace!
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