The general project objective was to promote the growth of the agricultural sector in Vojvodina through technical co-operation provided by Informest and the Union of Drainage and Irrigation Consortia of the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia. The experience held by the Union, which is particularly skilled in the field of programming and construction of facilities and has relevant competence in administrative aspects and procedures when dealing with different public and private bodies located in our Region, has been of great interest to the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and to Vojvodina’s public company in charge of irrigating and drainage water management. The co-operation with Vojvodina’s Provincial Secretariat of Agriculture, the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and the public company Vode Vojvodine within this project thus allowed to meet the following specific project objectives:

• The development of Vojvodina’s programming capacities in the field of water management, considering also that this region had been hit by disastrous floodings;
• The international benchmarking with Friuli Venezia Giulia’s experience and skills in the field of drainage and irrigation, especially with regard to the classification criteria of the territory;
• Cartographic innovation aimed at a better management of the water system in general and of irrigation waters in particular;
• Identification of needed facilities in the fields of agricultural redevelopment and irrigation, with emphasis on different facility typologies, different financial sources, costs, criteria for allocating resources to the beneficiary areas;
• Strengthening of the capacity to acquire funds, also on the basis of partnership agreements between public and private investors;
• The capacity to manage with flexibility the programming instruments aimed at innovating Vojvodina’s agriculture and at the harmonization of its production standards to the EU regulations.

In order to achieve these objectives, Informest implemented the following activities:

• Inception and inspection mission;
• 3 Technical assistance missions to the Executive Council of the AP Vojvodina and to the Company Vode Vojvodine;
• Internship for 3 technicians from Vojvodina at the Drainage Consortia of Friuli Venezia Giulia, members of the Union;
• Final Project Conference in Vojvodina.

Type of service

Co-ordination of project activities and of the project partnership.

Technical Assistance in co-operation with the Union of Drainage and Irrigation Consortia of the FVG Region.

Organisation of the training and internship in Italy for 3 water management technicians from Vojvodina.

Organisation of the final project conference in Vojvodina.

Overall project management.

Project monitoring, evaluation and reporting.