The Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Water Administration (MARDWA) of Albania intended to appoint a specialized International Consulting Engineer to carry out consultations with local stakeholders of 5 irrigation schemes (39,810 ha) about the available options of irrigation infrastructure rehabilitation and modernization and then based on the outcomes to prepare a feasibility study for each scheme and after that to prepare detailed engineering designs for specified rehabilitation works in each scheme.
The main objectives of the project are primarily to carry out intensive consultations with the 5 local irrigation scheme operators (farmers, irrigation institutions, local water utilities, etc) about the available options for irrigation infrastructure rehabilitation, secondarily to prepare feasibility study for the preferred options of each scheme in order to improve and give a technical base to the water resources sector reform and finally prepare engineering designs for the selected rehabilitation works of each scheme along with required bidding documents. Moreover, the project has to permit farmers to adopt the modern way of irrigating their produce, to reduce the consumption of water per unit area, to achieve better production way of systematic irrigation with all necessary documents and details for biding under the World Bank Procurement procedure.
