How Design, Management and Policy Affect the Performance of Irrigation Projects - Emerging Modernization Procedures and Design Standards

• Author : Hervé Plusquellec
• Year : 2002
• Language : English
• Type :    thesis
• Document ID :    134
• ISBN :    974-680-215-1
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Abstract

The document is a contribution to an emerging understanding that physical and institutional reforms of the irrigation sector should be combined, and that irrigation management transfer is not about transferring operation functions only but also governance to the irrigation users and a combination of the two at different levels.



In making its case, the document reviews the decades-old debate over the causes of inefficiency in irrigation projects, the role of multilateral lenders such as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank as well as country experiences from China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, North Africa, Pakistan, Sudan and the United States of America.