This report reviews several decades of global experience in transferring management of government-run irrigation systems to farmer associations or other nongovernmental agencies in an attempt to apply the lessons of success to the African smallholder irrigation context.
Shah, Tushaar
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Merrey, Douglas J.
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Lange, M.de
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Samad, M.
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[Institutional alternatives in African smallholder irrigation: lessons from international experience with irrigation management transfer]
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Institutional alternatives in African smallholder irrigation: lessons from international experience with irrigation management transfer
Stevens, Joe
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - South Africa. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].]
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Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - South Africa. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].
Although gender issues are today a priority on the agendas of irrigation policy makers, interventionists, farm leaders and researchers, there is still a considerable gap between positive intentions and concrete action. An important but hitherto ignored reason for this is the lack of adequate gene...
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[A gender performance indicator for irrigation: concepts, tools and applications]
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A gender performance indicator for irrigation: concepts, tools and applications
Kumwenda, Ian
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Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Matete, Mampiti
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[Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - Malawi. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].]
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Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - Malawi. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].
These guidelines are based on the IWRM Demonstration Projects in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia, implemented by the SADC Regional Water Sector Programme supported by Danida, and synthesized by Barbara van Koppen. It provides a practical step-by-step guide on how to apply commun...
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[Guidelines for community-driven water resource management: as initiated by the Integrated Water Resource Management Demonstration Projects in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia]
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Guidelines for community-driven water resource management: as initiated by the Integrated Water Resource Management Demonstration Projects in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia
This report presents seven innovations in Local-level Integrated Water Resource Management, based on lessons learnt in the IWRM Demonstration Projects in Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia.
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Chisaka, J.
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Shaba, S.S.
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[Lessons learnt from the IWRM demonstration projects: innovations in local-level integrated water resource development in Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia]
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Lessons learnt from the IWRM demonstration projects: innovations in local-level integrated water resource development in Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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[Guidelines for local-level integrated water resource management: based on experiences from the SADC IWRM demonstration projects in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia]
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Guidelines for local-level integrated water resource management: based on experiences from the SADC IWRM demonstration projects in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia
A growing body of evidence on the impacts of irrigation management transfer (IMT) shows that IMT risks aggravating rural poverty. For governments that aim to continue irrigation management while ensuring that it contributes to poverty alleviation, a "pro-poor" mode of IMT needs to be designed and...
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Parthasarathy, R.
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Safiliou, C.
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[Poverty dimensions of irrigation management transfer in large-scale canal irrigation in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, India]
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Poverty dimensions of irrigation management transfer in large-scale canal irrigation in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, India
This research report presents the findings of the first phase of the action-research project "Models for implementing multiple-use water supply systems for enhanced land and water productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity." Multipleuse water services, or "mus" in short, is a participatory...
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Moriarty, P.
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Boelee, Eline
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[Multiple-use water services to advance the millennium development goals]
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Multiple-use water services to advance the millennium development goals
Koppen, Barbara C.M. van
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Mhlanga, N.
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[Capacity Building for Lavumisa Irrigation Development Project: process documentation]
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Capacity Building for Lavumisa Irrigation Development Project: process documentation