Asset Management Programmes for Financial Planning and Management in Irrigation and Drainage

This paper presents a framework for the use of asset management programs for short, medium and long-term financial planning and management of irrigation and drainage systems. Asset management plans provide decision-makers the information on costs of infrastructure and their management in different stages of the financial management cycle. Their use is clarified for defining service levels and their associated costs, allocation of cost to specific services, defining charges and service fees and preparing budgets and subsidy arrangements for operation, maintenance, rehabilitation or modernisation of infrastructure.