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Impacts of Colombia's Current Irrigation Management Transfer Program
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 46

Impacts of Colombia's Current Irrigation Management Transfer Program

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: IWMI

There is a significant gap of knowledge about actual results of irrigation management transfer. This includes the questions: Which strategies work? Which don't? and What prerequisites are necesssary to support sustainable local management of irrigation? This report examines the context of transfer, the basic transfer strategy, powers and functions devolved, and the impacts of transfer on irrigation management and irrigated agriculture in three sample irrigation districts of Colombia-the RUT, Rio Recio, and Samaca. data on performance of these schemes were analyzed for 4 or 5 years before and after transfer. Two additional schemes, San Rafael and Maria La Baja, which were transferred just prior to this study, provided a comparison of performance between transferred and nontransferred schemes, form the period of analysis.

Impact Assessment of Irrigation Management Transfer in the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, Mexico
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 41

Impact Assessment of Irrigation Management Transfer in the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, Mexico

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: IWMI

Tests the hypothesis that, in general, irrigation management transfer has positive impacts on operation performance, managerial accountability, O & M budgeting and expenditures, costs of water to farmers, and agricultural and economic productivity in the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District in Mexico. Evaluates the potential of the Mexican IMT process as a model for other countries.

Results of Management Turnover in Two Irrigation Districts in Colombia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 38

Results of Management Turnover in Two Irrigation Districts in Colombia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: IWMI

Evaluates the turnover of two formerly government-managed irrigation districts in Colombia to the water users’ associations. Impacts are analyzed in terms of the cost of irrigation to farmers and the government, the quality of water distribution, the sustainability of irrigation, the productivity of agriculture, and farmer income.

Assessing Irrigation Performance with Comparative Indicators
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 47

Assessing Irrigation Performance with Comparative Indicators

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: IWMI

Describes and evaluates the application of IWMI's minimum set of performance indicators to the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, and compares this with the application of a small set of process performance indicators.

Irrigation Management Transfer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Irrigation Management Transfer

Globalization of irrigation management transfer: a summary of ideas and experiences fron the Whuhan conference; Irrigation management transfer: towards an integrated management revolution; Considerations in the transfer of responsibilities for services in the water resources sector; Lessons learned from irrigation management transfer programmes; Irrigation management transfer: problems in implementation; Institutuional context of irrigation management transfer; Gender aspects of irrigation management transfer: rethinking efficiency and equity: Overview of irrigation management transfer in China; Changes in irrigation as a result of policy reform in China leading to irrigation management tran...

Irrigation management transfer in Colombia: A pilot experiment and its consequences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 24
Performance Measurement in Farmer-managed Irrigation Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Performance Measurement in Farmer-managed Irrigation Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: IWMI

Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Performance evaluation ; Performance indexes ; Irrigation management ; Case studies ; Water distribution ; Social aspects ; Water users' associations ; Tube wells / Indonesia / Pakistan / Bolivia / Israel / Mexico / Peru / Venezuela / Andean Region / Philippines / Nepal / Sri Lanka / India / Egypt / Portugal / Tanzania / Argentina / China / Bangladesh

The New Era of Water Resources Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 23

The New Era of Water Resources Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: IWMI

The problem of water management; Increasing the productivity of water.