The Project aims to replicate the success achieved in National Program for the Improvement of Watercourses Phase-I and to enhance the agriculture growth in Pakistan. The broad objectives of the proposed project (NPIWC-II) are the social mobilization through capacity building of Water User Associations (WUAs), minimize the water conveyance and on farm water application losses, reduction in water logging and salinity, equity in water distribution, reduction in water distribution disputes, reduce the poverty through employment generation in agriculture sector and to increase the crops yield.

MNFS&R GOP has launched a project “Water Conservation in Barani Areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa” at a total cost of Rs. 14.178 billion on special instructions of the Honorable Prime Minister of Pakistan to Conserve & Increase Productivity of Water in Pakistan. The project envisages addressing the issue of water scarcity in barani areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) by harvesting rain/runoff/spring water at the local level. The water can be harvested in water ponds (earthen in the low lying area while cemented in sloped/terraced mountainous areas), earthen water reservoirs…