International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage Commission Interationale des Irrigation et du Drainage

Since 1951, ICID has been organizing its flagship event, the International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, triennially. The Congress poses certain questions highlighting the prevalent issues of the time to be addressed by the experts, and the stakeholders involved in irrigation, drainage, agriculture water management, flood control, and so forth. 

With time, the topics of discussion in Congress have ranged from addressing the problems related to irrigation infrastructures such as dam construction and safety, maintenance of canals, economics and financing of irrigation and flood control works, rehabilitation and modernization of irrigation and drainage systems, groundwater recharge, water management and institutional aspects, the sustainability of irrigation and farmer participation, food production under water scarcity, poverty alleviation and various environmental challenges. Moving forward, the ICID Congress continues to strive to discuss state-of-the-art innovation and research in the area of irrigation and drainage. 

Additionally, ICID organizes the triennial World Irrigation Forum. Regional Conferences, Micro-irrigation Conferences, and Drainage Workshops are also organized to address and discuss issues of global/regional importance.


During the 74th IEC meeting held in November 2024 at Vizag, Andhra Pradesh, India it was decided to establish the Committee on Events (C-EVENTS)  by the amalgamation of the Sub-Committee on Themes, Topics, and Work Plans of future ICID Events (SC-E-THEMES) and Committee on Congresses/Conferences (C-CONGR).


 

Strategy Themes: Irrigation and Drainage
Mandate:
  1. To encourage NCs to organize ICID events and suggest the right event; 
  2. To review proposals from the National Committees wishing to hold a future Congress/WIF/Regional Conference/ Conferences that must make a report to the C-EVENTS outlining their plans including location, dates, expected attendance, financial budget, registration fees etc. The Committee will consider these reports and make a recommendation to PCSO on whether to grant the event to the NC;
  3. To deliberate and recommend the Themes, Sub-themes of World Irrigation Forums, Questions of future Congresses; and Topics for Regional Conferences, Drainage Workshops, and Micro Irrigation Conferences;
  4. To set out a format and technical contents of the Congresses, WIFs, Regional Conferences, Conferences, etc.;  
  5. To draw guidelines to make the WG meetings/sessions technically richer and beneficial to the stakeholders and industries in terms of technical output, Organizing Webinars, virtual meetings, etc.;  
  6. To work out the structure of meetings related to IEC, particularly the WGs at the ICID's Annual Events, to make them more effective;  
  7. To review the technical outputs and outcomes and suggest follow-ups;
  8. To help in the drafting of Statements/ Declarations during the events; and  
  9. To review the summary report presented by the representatives from previous events, which includes attendance, financial performance, and recommendations for future events;  

Established : 2024

Chairman Message

Activities

Announcement

Current Membership Composition of the Committees are as follows:  (1) Australian National Committee; (2) Chinese National Committee; (3) French National Committee; (4) Indian National Committee; (5) Iraqi National Committee; (6) Malaysian National Committee; (7) Nigerian National Committee; (8) Tajikistan National Committee; (9) Saudi Arabian National Committee; and (10) Secretary General, ICID. The membership will be updated according to the organization of ICID events.

Vice President Hon. Dr. Kaluvai Yella Reddy (India), Ms. Celine Papin (France) and Dr. Lihui Gao (China) were elected as Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary of C-EVENTS. 

Membership
Sl. No. Name Email Country Position
1 Dr. K. Yella Reddy ky************* India Chair
2 Madame Céline PAPIN ce************* France Vice Chair
3 Mr. Gao Lihui li************* China Secretary
4 Dr. Vijay Labhsetwar vi************* India Observer
5 Er. A.B. Pandya se************* ICID Central Office Secretary General
6 Mr. Ahmad Bin Dakur ah************* Malaysia Representative
7 Mr. Avanti Verma in************* India Representative
8 Dr. Bakhrom Gaforzoda gb************* Tajikistan Representative
9 Mr. Bruno Grawitz br************* France Representative
10 Prof. Fethi Lebdi le************* Saudi Arabia Representative
11 Dr. Gao Zhanyi ga************* China Representative
12 Mr. Momir Vranes mo************* Australia Representative
13 Er. Nisreen Sami ic************* Iraq Representative
14 Engr. Peter Henry Sule ni************* Nigeria Representative

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During the 74th IEC meeting held in November 2024 at Vizag, Andhra Pradesh, India it was decided to establish the Committee on Events (C-EVENTS)  by the amalgamation of the Sub-Committee on Themes, Topics, and Work Plans of future ICID Events (SC-E-THEMES) and Committee on Congresses/Conferences (C-CONGR).


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