Assessing the impact of rehabilitation and irrigation management transfer in minor irrigation projects in Orissa, India: A case study

2011 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Mishra ◽  
S. Ghosh ◽  
P. Nanda ◽  
A. Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Irrigation Management Transfer ◽  
Irrigation Projects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Minor Irrigation

Transferring irrigation management to farmer's associations: Evidence from the Philippines

Water Policy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Priya Shyamsundar ◽  
Mei Xie
Keyword(s):  
Irrigation Management ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
Water Delivery ◽  
Irrigation Management Transfer ◽  
Rice Farmers ◽  
Rice Yields ◽  
Canal Maintenance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Irrigation Infrastructure

Irrigation management transfer (IMT) is an important strategy among donors and governments that aims to strengthen farmer control over water and irrigation infrastructure. In this study, we use data from a survey of 68 irrigator associations (IAs) and 1020 farm households in the Philippines to examine the impact of IMT on irrigation association performance and on rice yields. We find that the presence of IMT is associated with an increase in maintenance activities undertaken by irrigation associations. While associations with and without IMT contracts undertake canal maintenance, the frequency of maintenance in IMT IAs is higher. IMT presence is also associated with an increase in farm yields by about 6%; rice production in IMT areas is higher even after we control for various differences amongst rice farmers in IMT and non-IMT areas. Finally, IMT may even give poorer farmers a small boost in terms of rice yields. We speculate that this boost may be a result of improved water delivery and better resolution of conflicts related to illegal use.

Conclusions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia M. Gouda
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Irrigation Water Management ◽  
Water Users ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Irrigation Infrastructure ◽  
Water Users Associations

This chapter outlines the general conclusions of the research and the book based on the analysis of the four case study areas in Egypt. It also provides the basis for thoughts about a more realistic and critical consideration of social capital theories into the mainstream of community-based natural resource management in general, and irrigation management transfer in particular. The research undertaken for this book show that it was worthwhile to develop a comprehensive conceptual framework for the analysis of social capital to use in place of Putnam's theory and approach, which romanticize traditional village organizations and cannot satisfactorily explain the complexity observed in the case study areas. The findings also provided key lessons to keep in mind when establishing and supporting water users' associations (WUA) at the level of tertiary and branch canals. Among these are the impact of improvements to irrigation infrastructure on farmers' behavior and the functioning of WUAs on the tertiary canal, namely that reducing face-to-face interactions reduces the creation of social capital, social control, and collective action; and that cooperation is not only dependent on the availability of water but is also affected by the autonomy of the irrigation water management field and the assignment of water rights.

The impact of digitalization on business processes: case study: Kosovo SMEs

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ylber Limani ◽  
Edmond Hajrizi ◽  
Rina Sadriu
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
The Impact
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