Hot Spot Area Agriculture Development Plan (HSAADP) of the
Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project (CSIAP) is currently being reviewed
at the Uva Management Development Institute (UMDI), Passara. It has been decided that
all the specialists of CSIAP must review the HSAAD plans developed by the
consultancy firms to make certain that HSAADPs are well prepared, organized.
The HSAADP is the key instrument of the CSIAP project which would identify necessary interventions to be carried out in Hot spot areas during the period of its implementation based on the HSAADPs developed. It is expected that the HSAADPs will propose productive, economically sound, environmentally friendly and socially acceptable interventions for the respective Hot spot areas assuring the improvement of agriculture livelihood of the community.
The Project Management Unit (PMU) of the CSIAP has organized this two-day training workshop for the specialists and officers of the CSIAP to furnish them with necessary understanding of reviewing the HSAADP with the assistance of experts from the World Bank. Representing the World Bank Mr. Seenithamby Manoharan, Task Team Leader of CSIAP and Senior Rural Development Specialist, Mr. Sarath Wickramarathne, Consultant, Dr. Gamini Wickramasinghe, Consultant (Social Safeguard) also participated in this event.
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| Eng. Nadaraja Sivalingam, Project Director, CSIAP, is explaining the objectives of the HSAADP |
The HSAADP is the key instrument of the CSIAP project which would identify necessary interventions to be carried out in Hot spot areas during the period of its implementation based on the HSAADPs developed. It is expected that the HSAADPs will propose productive, economically sound, environmentally friendly and socially acceptable interventions for the respective Hot spot areas assuring the improvement of agriculture livelihood of the community.
The Project Management Unit (PMU) of the CSIAP has organized this two-day training workshop for the specialists and officers of the CSIAP to furnish them with necessary understanding of reviewing the HSAADP with the assistance of experts from the World Bank. Representing the World Bank Mr. Seenithamby Manoharan, Task Team Leader of CSIAP and Senior Rural Development Specialist, Mr. Sarath Wickramarathne, Consultant, Dr. Gamini Wickramasinghe, Consultant (Social Safeguard) also participated in this event.
