Problems occur when institutional arrangements for collective management of food and water systems fail to meet demands. Many of the problems characterising river basins and other collectively managed water resource systems can be ascribed largely to the failure of institutions to enable problems...
Merrey, Douglas J.
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Cook, Simon E.
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[Fostering Institutional Creativity at Multiple Levels: Towards Facilitated Institutional Bricolage]
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Fostering Institutional Creativity at Multiple Levels: Towards Facilitated Institutional Bricolage
Merrey, Douglas J.
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Valera, A.
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Dassenaike, L.
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[Does assessing irrigation performance make a difference? Results from a comparative study of three irrigation systems]
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Does assessing irrigation performance make a difference? Results from a comparative study of three irrigation systems
This paper examines the weaknesses in the current understanding of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) from the perspective of livelihoods. Empowering poor people, reducing poverty, improving livelihoods, and promoting economic growth ought to be the basic objectives of IWRM. But as curr...
Paper presented at Monitoring Tailor-Made IV Conference: Information to Support Sustainable Water Management: From Local to Global Levels, St. Michielsgestel, Netherlands, 15-18 September 2003. 11p.; ill, ref.
Merrey, Douglas J.
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Drechsel, Pay
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Penning de Vries, Frits W.T.
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Sally, Hilmy
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[Integrating 'livelihoods' into integrated water resources management: taking the integration paradigm to its logical next step for developing countries]
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Integrating 'livelihoods' into integrated water resources management: taking the integration paradigm to its logical next step for developing countries
Vermillion, Douglas L.
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Merrey, Douglas J.
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[What the 21st century will demand of water management institutions]
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What the 21st century will demand of water management institutions
This paper discusses the usefulness and limitations of using the concept of Relative Water Supply (RWS) for evaluating the performance of irrigation systems, with special reference to systems irrigating rice. It then describes and demonstrates the use of a modification of RWS called Cumulative Re...
Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy
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Merrey, Douglas J.
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Fernando, N.
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[Cumulative relative water supply: a methodology for assessing irrigation system performance]
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Cumulative relative water supply: a methodology for assessing irrigation system performance
Merrey, Douglas J.
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[Konteks kelembagaan untuk pengelolaan pertanian beririgasi. In Indonesian, Institutional contexts for managing irrigated agriculture]
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Institutional contexts for managing irrigated agriculture
This paper presents an objective easy-to-use methodology for rapidly assessing the capacity of the managers and users of an irrigation system to respond positively to interventions to improve performance, and for identifying the types of interventions likely to succeed. The 'Performance Improveme...
Merrey, Douglas J.
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Murray-Rust, Hammond
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Garcés-Restrepo, C.
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Sakthivadivel, Ramaswamy
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Wasantha Kumara, W.A.U.
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[Performance improvement capacity audit: A methodology for diagnosing capacity to improve irrigation performance]
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Performance improvement capacity audit: A methodology for diagnosing capacity to improve irrigation performance
Merrey, Douglas J.
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[Book review - Transforming a bureaucracy: the experience of the Philippine National Irrigation Administration, edited by Frances F. Korten and Robert Y. Siy Jr.]
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Book review - Transforming a bureaucracy: the experience of the Philippine National Irrigation Administration, edited by Frances F. Korten and Robert Y. Siy Jr.
This paper is based on a review of experiences with a wide range of micro- agricultural water management technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa with a special emphasis on southern Africa. The major finding of the study is that these technologies have the potential to make major contributions to impro...
Merrey, Douglas J.
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Sally, Hilmy
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[Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring?]
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Micro-agricultural water management technologies for food security in southern Africa: part of the solution or a red herring?