Asia
Small Scale Irrigation Program (SSIP), Kingdom of Thailand
(1978|1990)
 
 
SSIP was the first Project applied and implemented with the Irrigation Sector Loan finance by the then Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF-present JBIC), Japan. In Thailand at that time, SSIP was reputed as one of the highest-priority-given projects with the Bottom-up approach/implementation manner. Those requests derived from a number of group of farmers in every corners of the country were screened step by step through administrative set-ups and finally decided by the National Water Resources Committee, Prime Ministerfs Office for implementation and management by the Royal Irrigation Department.
JBIC Loans were provided consecutively in 6 phases covering 12 years period with the accomplishment of as many as 6,000 SSIPs (33.7 Billion Japanese Yen Loan) during the period. The project has been highly evaluated on itfs performance especially in quite a large contributions to raising-up of living standard as well as maintaining of social peace/security in remote rural areas.
Consulting services rendered by SCI covered a wide range of categories as planning, detailed design, construction supervision and O&M, in addition to which an emphasis was placed at overall project management, being a pioneer project for management consulting services.


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