This monograph examines the construction, operation and maintenance tasks that shape the nature of locally managed irrigation systems. The objective of the book is to identify relevant experiences and lessons for staff who are responsible for working with locally managed systems in three types of programs: direct assistance to existing locally managed irrigation systems, turnover of public owned systems to local management, and transfer of partial management to farmer groups within larger systems that remain publicly controlled.
Overview of the workshop;mobilization of the rural poor fir access to agricultural; irrigation water management in Gylepphug lift irrigationscheme; role of the institutional organizer in assisting farmers to participate in the rehabilitation of tank systems; using irrigation agency staff as institutional organizers: the small systems turnover program in Indonesia; community organizers and farmer participation: a casestudy of traditional irrigation systems in south Sumatra,Indonesia;role of the social organizers in pumped irrigation systems in Subang, west java, Indonesia; community-based irrigation management in Laos; roleof social organizers in assisting farmer-managed irrigation systems: the case of the agricultural bank of Nepal; role of social organizersin improving irrigation management: the experience in Nepal; role of social organizers: the aga khan rural support programme for irrigation infrastructure development, Gilgit; role of social organizers in communal irrigation development in the Philippines; role of the irrigation community organizers: the siwaragan experience; prospects of using social mobilizers in the management of minor irrigation systems in Sri Lanka; adjusting the process for participatory management through a teamapproach: a case study in North central Sri Lanka; role of social orgnizers in the development of small irrigation systems in Northeast Thailand by the royal irrigation department; opening active communicationbetween agency and peoples irrigation associations through the...
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
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or delayed), by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics. Its aim is to identify relevant historical contexts, that is, the ‘initial conditions’ and internal and external forces which governed the transition. It also aims to understand what current low-income developing countries require for their transition. Three economic driving forces for the transition are identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2) international trade, which facilitates efficient international division of labor; and (3) agricultural development, which improves food security by increasing supply of staple foods. The book presents a bold account of each driver for the transition.
