Governance in Irrigation and Drainage : Concepts, Cases, and Action-Oriented Approaches—A Practitioner’s Resource

Irrigated farming is central to meeting the world's food and fodder needs and will be even more important in delivering on food security and water sustainability development priorities in the future. High population growth, climate change, inc...

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Main Authors:	Waalewijn, Pieter, Trier, Remi, Denison, Jonathan, Siddiqi, Yasmin, Vos, Jeroen, Amjad, Eeman, Schulte, Mik
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	IRRIGATION WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AGRICULTURE GROUNDWATER DRAINAGE SERVICE DELIVERY WATER USE ORGANIZATION GOVERNANCE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/413871567113420542/Governance-in-Irrigation-and-Drainage-Concepts-Cases-and-Action-Oriented-Approaches-A-Practitioner-s-Resource http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32339

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spelling	okr-10986-323392022-01-21T05:10:47Z Governance in Irrigation and Drainage : Concepts, Cases, and Action-Oriented Approaches—A Practitioner’s Resource Waalewijn, Pieter Trier, Remi Denison, Jonathan Siddiqi, Yasmin Vos, Jeroen Amjad, Eeman Schulte, Mik IRRIGATION WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AGRICULTURE GROUNDWATER DRAINAGE SERVICE DELIVERY WATER USE ORGANIZATION GOVERNANCE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION Irrigated farming is central to meeting the world's food and fodder needs and will be even more important in delivering on food security and water sustainability development priorities in the future. High population growth, climate change, increasing socio-economic growth, and water stress are key drivers of change. Although irrigation covers only 6.5 percent of the total land used for agriculture, it supports production of forty percent of the world's food and fodder output, with a gross value of fifty-five percent of global agricultural produce. Improving irrigation performance is a priority strategy in addressing rural poverty and in mitigating climate -change impacts, especially for the most vulnerable. Investment in irrigation has seen renewed interest in the past decade, and irrigation and drainage (I and D) governance emerging as a key focus for improved performance. Institutional failures and poor irrigation performance have been blamed on low capacity, perverse incentives, misdirected policies, and weak implementation but these are only contributing factors. Investments in institutions of the past have aimed to fix the institutions, with a focus on form and on organizational structure. The central message of this resource book is that functions, processes, and related capabilities must be the priority focus of all irrigation institutional interventions. 2019-09-03T19:20:12Z 2019-09-03T19:20:12Z 2019-05-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/413871567113420542/Governance-in-Irrigation-and-Drainage-Concepts-Cases-and-Action-Oriented-Approaches-A-Practitioner-s-Resource http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32339 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	IRRIGATION WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AGRICULTURE GROUNDWATER DRAINAGE SERVICE DELIVERY WATER USE ORGANIZATION GOVERNANCE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION
spellingShingle	IRRIGATION WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AGRICULTURE GROUNDWATER DRAINAGE SERVICE DELIVERY WATER USE ORGANIZATION GOVERNANCE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION Waalewijn, Pieter Trier, Remi Denison, Jonathan Siddiqi, Yasmin Vos, Jeroen Amjad, Eeman Schulte, Mik Governance in Irrigation and Drainage : Concepts, Cases, and Action-Oriented Approaches—A Practitioner’s Resource
description	Irrigated farming is central to meeting the world's food and fodder needs and will be even more important in delivering on food security and water sustainability development priorities in the future. High population growth, climate change, increasing socio-economic growth, and water stress are key drivers of change. Although irrigation covers only 6.5 percent of the total land used for agriculture, it supports production of forty percent of the world's food and fodder output, with a gross value of fifty-five percent of global agricultural produce. Improving irrigation performance is a priority strategy in addressing rural poverty and in mitigating climate -change impacts, especially for the most vulnerable. Investment in irrigation has seen renewed interest in the past decade, and irrigation and drainage (I and D) governance emerging as a key focus for improved performance. Institutional failures and poor irrigation performance have been blamed on low capacity, perverse incentives, misdirected policies, and weak implementation but these are only contributing factors. Investments in institutions of the past have aimed to fix the institutions, with a focus on form and on organizational structure. The central message of this resource book is that functions, processes, and related capabilities must be the priority focus of all irrigation institutional interventions.
format	Working Paper
author	Waalewijn, Pieter Trier, Remi Denison, Jonathan Siddiqi, Yasmin Vos, Jeroen Amjad, Eeman Schulte, Mik
author_facet	Waalewijn, Pieter Trier, Remi Denison, Jonathan Siddiqi, Yasmin Vos, Jeroen Amjad, Eeman Schulte, Mik
author_sort	Waalewijn, Pieter
title	Governance in Irrigation and Drainage : Concepts, Cases, and Action-Oriented Approaches—A Practitioner’s Resource
title_short	Governance in Irrigation and Drainage : Concepts, Cases, and Action-Oriented Approaches—A Practitioner’s Resource
title_full	Governance in Irrigation and Drainage : Concepts, Cases, and Action-Oriented Approaches—A Practitioner’s Resource
title_fullStr	Governance in Irrigation and Drainage : Concepts, Cases, and Action-Oriented Approaches—A Practitioner’s Resource
title_full_unstemmed	Governance in Irrigation and Drainage : Concepts, Cases, and Action-Oriented Approaches—A Practitioner’s Resource
title_sort	governance in irrigation and drainage : concepts, cases, and action-oriented approaches—a practitioner’s resource
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/413871567113420542/Governance-in-Irrigation-and-Drainage-Concepts-Cases-and-Action-Oriented-Approaches-A-Practitioner-s-Resource http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32339
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