Evaluation of the opportunities and challenges of managing the exploitation of irrigation networks in Kermanshah province by use of SWOT model

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1 Department of Hydrology, Faculty of Water and Environmental Engineering, Shahid Chamran University Ahvaz,, Ahvaz, Iran

2 Department of Hydrology, Faculty of Water and Environmental Engineering, Shahid Chamran University Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

10.30490/rvt.2024.362732.1535

Abstract

Considering the importance of irrigation and drainage networks in water management in Kermanshah province, the opportunities and challenges of managing the exploitation of irrigation networks in Kermanshah province using field surveys, and interviews with stakeholders and SWOT model was investigated. Among the existing water management systems, rural production cooperative companies were prioritized and based on the description of services contained in Regulation No. 663, positive and negative factors in explaining the objectives of the studies were evaluated using PRA and SWOT methods. For this, the beneficiaries of each village were requested to introduce people from among themselves as representatives of all beneficiaries to the social facilitators of the project, and through field surveys and interviews with selected trustees, the most important effective items in the networks covered by this survey were identified. Then, based on the SWOT model, five basic strategies were defined. Using QSPM matrix, different strategies were prioritized. The option of handing over the stages of planting, holding and harvesting to cooperative production companies was placed in the first priority of the strategies. The general results showed that according to the existing weaknesses, the predicted capacity of these networks for the development of the rural economy and the creation of a suitable basis for handing over the government management of water distribution networks to the private sector have not yet been done. The format of cooperative production companies and trust and delegation of authority to them not only moderates the weakness and strengthens the exploitation of irrigation networks.

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Village and Development

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 19 February 2024

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