Sustainable Power and Irrigation for Nigeria Project

The development objective of the Sustainable Power and Irrigation for Nigeria Project is to strengthen dam safety and improve management of water resources for hydropower and irrigation in selected areas of Nigeria. The project comprises of four components. The first component, institutional strengthening and capacity building for water resources management (WRM) supports policy, institutions, and regulation at the federal, state, and river basin levels and collaboration among irrigation, dam safety, and hydropower stakeholders to promote integrated WRM (IWRM) and help achieve the food water-energy nexus in Nigeria. It consists of following sub-components: (i) institutional strengthening and capacity building for WRM and hydropower planning at federal level; (ii) institutional strengthening and national knowledge exchange on WRM at state level; and (iii) improving WRM at river basin level. The second component, irrigation modernization will support the rehabilitation and revitalization of 40,000 ha of irrigated command area, through a comprehensive modernization program combining improving irrigation and drainage infrastructure while implementing the policy, institutional, and regulatory reforms presented in Component 1. It consists of following sub-components: (i) Mobilization and Development of Water User Associations (WUAs); (ii) irrigation and drainage infrastructure investments; and (iii) irrigation management modernization. The third component, improvements in dam operations and enhancing dam safety will strengthen the dam safety management system in the country and will rehabilitate and improve the safety of prioritized dams and associated appurtenances. The fourth component, project management objective is to effectively implement, monitor, and evaluate project activities.