International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) works closely with a global network of professionals within and without the water sector. Our associations varies from government departments, multilateral, bi-lateral organisations, policy makers, UN organisations, independent researchers, young professionals, students and experts from different disciplines. As the name suggests, our work is extensively based on agricultural water, flood management, irrigation techniques/models and drainage systems scaling from  community levels to transboundary issues.  Our mainstream activities majorly frames out through the activities of our workbodies: Committees, Working Groups, Task Forces since ICID's inception in 1950. 

ICID network boasts of more than 500 professionals managing over 30 functioning work bodies based on their relentless voluntary efforts all around the year. Broadly segregated among four Strategy Themes: Irrigation and Drainage, Natural Resources, Climate Change and Impacts, and Sustainable Development; over the last 75 years we have accumulated knowledge, developed resources and shared experiences across geographical, climatological, economic and social spectrum; presented various technical papers, guidelines and manuals based on various aspects of irrigation, drainage, and flood management. On the basis of functionality and themes covered by various work bodies, we have divided them under four labels apart from administrative committees. 

Permanent Committees: (i) Permanent Committee on Strategy and organization (PCSO); (ii) Permanent Committee for Technical Activities (PCTA); (iii) Permanent Finance Committee (PFC); (iv) SpecialCommittee- International Research Program for Irrigation and Drainage (IRPID); (v) Management Board (MB); and (vi) Staff Committee (SC)

STRATEGY THEMES

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE

– Working Group on Irrigation Water Management and Development (WG-IWM&D)

– Working Group on Non-Conventional Water Resources and Environment Protection (WG-NWREP)

– Working Group on Land Drainage (WG-LDRG)

NATURAL RESOURCES

– Task Force to Guide ICID Inputs to 10th World Water Forum (TF-WWF10)

– Working Group on Rain Water Harvesting (WG-RWH)

– Working Group on Sustainable Coastal Environment Regeneration (WG-SCER)

– Working Group on Water Food Energy Nexus (WG-WFE_N)

– Working Group on Irrigation and Drainage in the States under Socio-Economic Transformation (WG-IDSST)

– ICID Journal Editorial Board (EB-JOUR)

CLIMATE CHANGE AND IMPACTS

– Working Group on Climate Change and Agricultural Water Management (WG-CLIMATE)

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

– Task Force for Updating and Maintenance of Multilingual Technical Dictionary (TF-MTD)

– Task Force on Women Empowerment in Water Management (TF – WEWM)

– Working Group on Institutional and Organizational Aspects of Modernization of Irrigation Development and Management Supported by  Value Engineering (WG-I&OMVE)

– Working Group on History of Irrigation, Drainage and Flood Control (WG-HIST)

– Working Group on Capacity Development, Training and Education (WG-CDTE)