Increasing Incomes From Irrigated Rice Production Through Multilevel And Multidisciplinary Approach: The Case Of The Republic Of Indonesia With The Integrated Participatory Development And Management Irrigation Project (IPDMIP)

The government of Indonesia, in partnership with the IFAD and the ADB, is implementing the
Integrated Participatory Development and Management Irrigation Project (IPDMIP), which is
aimed to boost agricultural productivity, reduce rural poverty, promote gender equity, and
improve nutrition through four components: strengthened policies and institutional frameworks,
better irrigation systems management, improved irrigation infrastructure, and increased incomes
for the smallholders. The project is using a multilevel (national, provinces, and districts) and
multidisciplinary (various ministries) approach to execute the activities, but unfortunately is not
delivering the expected results. This work focuses on component 4, the one financed by IFAD,
that currently is at its third year of execution and is facing major implementation problems due to
the vast scope, difficulties in the data collection, with the financing mechanisms, the distribution
of the budget, and the evaluation system. After a total immersion in the implementation unit,
meetings with the participation of provinces and districts, and the lecture of the latest reports,
four recommendations based on easing the implementation by giving tools at the district level
and focus on certain areas. The recommendations are expected to improve the implementation
prior the mid-term meeting scheduled in the first semester of 2020. In addition, an identification
of risks that the project shall address has been carried out to complement the analysis performed.
It is important to say that no recommendation had the chance to be implemented to see if there
were contrasting results during the field practicum research; nonetheless, if implemented by the
project, a positive impact is envisaged.