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HIPPO Foundation

The HIPPO foundation was created in 1997 to promote the availability of affordable high-efficiency irrigation pumps. The emphasis is on the low-lift pumping conditions typical of small-scale irrigation along major Sahelian rivers, such as the Niger in Mali, West Africa.

The objectives are to help validate the following HIPPOtheses:

• Pumping costs in community-based irrigation schemes along the Niger River can  be reduced from US$ 300 to less than US$ 150 per hectare per season;

• Irrigation pump marketing in West Africa is inefficient by international standards and can be improved;

• The establishment of rental services of cost-efficient irrigation pumps is an effective way of promoting self-help irrigation development by resource-poor farmers in the Sahel.

The main activities of HIPPO are (see also the main navigation bar at the top of each page):

• Collaborating with the local pump rental initiative HariGoumo ("low-cost water") in Timbuktu, Mali, to carry out  cost-efficient field studies on affordable, low-lift pumping;

• InfoService: collecting, exchanging and diffusing technical, economic, commercial information to help develop the capacity for assessing low-lift irrigation pumps. See also the copyright notice;

• Developing a framework for optimizing the selection of water-lifting equipment and establishing a database on pumpsets and accessories. See PumpSelect;

• Publishing on-line accounts of action-research and other information related to hippo and its cause in  "HIPPO Perspectives";

• Identifying and providing opportunities for funding and applied research in the field of affordable, small-scale, low-lift irrigation development in sub-Saharan Africa.

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The list below is not exhaustive. Other documents may be found by using the search function or by entering the InfoService section of this web site. In case you fail to find a document on this website, feel free to contact the HIPPO secretariat at hippomp@net.hcc.nl. 

• Arby, D. (2001) Location et location-vente de groupes motopompes : créneau nouveau pour la promotion de l’irrigation privée dans la Région de Tombouctou, Mali. Journées d'Irrigation, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 23-26 April, 2001. (pdf, 214k)

• Arby, D. and Van ‘t Hof, S. (2000) Evaluation d'une motopompe Kirloskar TV-1/NW9ME à Kakondji, Tombouctou, Mali. HIPPO Perspectives 3. (pdf, 122k)

• Arby, D. (1998) Systèmes de Location de Groupes Motopompes dans la Vallée du Fleuve Niger dans la Région de Tombouctou au Nord du Mali (pdf, 129k)

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2002a) Supporting irrigation networking in West and Central Africa: the establishment of ARID-L

• Van ’t Hof, S. and Maurice, L. (2002b) Efficiency, cost, optimization and spread of spray irrigation in West Africa. HIPPO Perspectives 4. (pdf, 189k)

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2002c) Fuel consumption report WM D1-22/4HBC-35 (test 15/06/02)

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2001a) Selection and procurement of efficient and affordable equipment from Asia for small-scale irrigation development in West and Central Africa

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2001b) Roving course on pump selection in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger: lessons learned. Private irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa", Accra, Ghana, 22-26 Oct. 2001.

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2001c) Turning ARID-L into a best practice network on small-scale irrigation: creating a sense of purpose. In: Actes du séminaire "Systèmes irrigués en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre", Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 23-26 avril 2001.

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2001d) Formation sur le choix de motopompes: APIPAC (Burkina Faso) et ANPIP (Niger).   Mission report for World Bank (unpublished).

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2001e) Supporting market-led importation  of small-scale irrigation equipment in West and Central Africa. In: Actes du séminaire "Systèmes irrigués en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre", Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 23-26 avril 2001.

• Van 't Hof, S. (2001f) Formation sur le choix des motopompes: APROFA (Mali). Mission report for World Bank (unpublished).

• Van 't Hof, S. (2001g) Roving course on pump selection: Burkina Faso and Niger. In: Actes du séminaire "Systèmes irrigués en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre", Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 23-26 avril 2001.

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2000a) Affordable low-lift pumping for small-scale irrigation development : appropriate equipment selection

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2000b) Mission de définition des tests visant la réduction des coûts de pompage. BIRD/IDA/PDIAIM (unpublished)

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2000c) Pompage à Basse Pression pour le Développement de la Petite Irrigation: sélection de matériels adaptés.

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2000d) Dossier 1-12: (1) Kirloskar; (2) Flygt; (3) Vopo; (4) Stork (Johnson); (5) accessoires; (6) Standart; (7) pompes axiales; (8) Pancar; (9) moteurs chinois; (10) pompes artisanales; (11) pompes chinoises; (12) Rovatti/Caprari.

• Van ’t Hof, S. (2000e) PumpSelect: une application Excel pour l'évaluation technico-économique de motopompes.    

• Van ’t Hof, S., (1998a) The design of a low-lift irrigation pump pilot project: improving the availability of affordable pumpsets to African farmers (pdf, 223k) (French version: Van 't Hof, 1998b)

• Van 't Hof, S., (1998b) ..... (English version: Van 't Hof, 1998a)

• Van ’t Hof, S. (1997) HIPPO Perspectives nr. 2 : (1) advocacy of a HIPPO project ; (2) constraints to the proliferation of community-based irrigation; (3) possible intervention models ; (4) outline of a pump rental operation (also available in French).

• Van ’t Hof, S. (1997) HIPPO Perspectives nr. 1 : (1) the objectives of the HIPPO Foundation ; (2) working hypotheses ; (3) current strategy ; (4) the initiators ; (5) HIPPO, the acronym and the emblem ; (6) historical overview of village irrigation in the region of Timbuktu  (also available in French)

• Van ’t Hof, S. (1994) Economical low-lift pumps for village irrigation along the Niger River

• Van ’t Hof, S. (1992) Irrigation d’appoint à Bourem. UNICEF.

Since 1997 HIPPO has: