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Community-Managed Irrigation Sector Project

Laos PDR

Borrower Lao PDR
Financing Type Public Sector
Instrument Project Loan
Focus Area Agriculture
Approved 10.12.1996
Signed 22.08.1997
Status Completed
Loan Administrator ADB
Executing Agency Department of Irrigation
Co-financiers ADB, Government, Communities
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) 4.00
Total Project Cost (US$m) 23.60

The objective of this project is to improve food security in the deprived central mountains regions (the provinces of Vientiane, Boukhamxay, Houp-Phanh, Xiang Khoung and Xaysomboum).

  • construction or upgrading of 70 community-managed irrigation (CMI) schemes, thus improving irrigation for around 3,800 hectares;
  • construction of 90 km of rural access roads and 60 km of district feeder roads that will link to marketplaces.
The CMI schemes will be community based; community participation will be effective from the planning stage, to implementation and to operation and maintenance.

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