Juba development analytical studies

A.I.D. will fund a soils/land use classification and an environmental/social assessment and will provide institutional support to the MJVD, which will implement the A.I.D. project. The A.I.D. studies will cover the entire area affected by plans for water control in the Juba Valley (including areas in adjacent valleys that may affect inter-valley water transfer). Priority will be given to the soils/land use classification. This study will first survey some 10,000 sq km of land at a reconnaissance grade level; land found to be of high irrigation potential will then be more closely surveyed in a feasibility grade study. It is estimated that the latter activity will include some 100,000-150,000 ha in the Juba and Shabelle Valleys. The environmental/social assessment will identify the likely environmental impacts of proposed development options as well as potential sociological constraints on the transition to irrigated agriculture. Finally, to strengthen the MJVD as a coordinative body for master planning in the Valley, A.I.D. will fund a long-term advisor for 5 years and provide 60 months of consultancies. Funding will also be set aside for training. Other donors (including the World Bank, the European Economic Community, and the Federal Republic of Germany) will be responsible for studies of, inter alia: water flow, quality, salinity, and siltation rates; the feasibility of transferring stored Juba water to the Shabelle; rainfed and livestock production; hydroelectric generation sites; and the feasibility of individual projects. Amendment of 1/17/85 increases the provision (by the U.S. National Research Council - NAS) of long- and short-term training to MJVD and transfers responsibility for the long-term advisor to MJVD from NAS to a West German contractor. (PD-BAU-823)