Cùng với dự án Loan - VIE (2), trợ lý kỹ thuật dự án hỗ trợ kỹ thuật "Tăng cường hoạt động và bảo trì" (1) được tài trợ bởi Ngân hàng Phát triển Châu Á. Bộ trưởng Bộ Thuỷ lợi (nay là Bộ Nông nghiệp và Phát triển nông thôn uỷ quyền cho Sở Thủy lực làm việc và Quản lý nước (nay là Cục Thuỷ lợi) để thực hiện dự án này. Bộ trình Bộ trưởng đứng đầu của dự án . | PIM MODEL - VNPIM AND TECNICAL ASSISTANT PROJECT Le Thu Hang PIM - technical assistant project Together with Project Loan No. 1259 - VIE 2 technical assistant project TA Strengthening operation and maintenance 1 are funded by Asian Development Bank. Minister of Ministry of Water Resources now is Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development authorized to Department of Hydraulic work and Water Management now is Department of Water Resources to implement this project. The Department submitted to Minister a head of project . 1 This is a first foreign and large-funded project implemented by this Department. Therefore during implementation process of this project there were many difficulties not in local and central levels but also inside the department because of lack of experience knowledge and especially project approaches. However the project gained considerable results expressed nice impression for both international and national for the following activities - Organization of training course for over 500 staff of IDMCs DARD and other concerned units in MARD. - Development of Water User Cooperative Water User Association models with inter-commune scale. These are first water user organization models in Vietnam. Currently these still exist. After that VNPIM in cooperation with NGOs including Oxfam Great Braint to develop smaller-scale model village commune . - A first NATIONAL SEMINAR ON PARTICIPATORY IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT with largest scale was organized in Cua Lo Nghe An from 710 4 1997 with participation of more than 10 international organization ADB WB DANIDA. NGOs including Oxfam Great Britain Hong Kong CIDSE. representatives from INPIM and over 100 representatives from DARD IDMCs. The seminar was co-chaired by Vu Trong Hong Vice Minister of MARD Mr Paul Stotl WB office in Vietnam Mr Hamand ADB consultant MC Nguyen Xuan Tiep Nguyen Van Hien Doan The Uong Terms of PIM
