Suggested Reading and  Links

 FAO documents 

• Programa de Concesiones de Proyectos de Riego en Chile (pdf document) (NEW)
• Transfer of irrigation management services - Guidelines  
  pdf document (Size: 898 KB)
• Transfert des services des gestion de l'irrigation - Directives  
  pdf document (Size: 1,824 KB)
• Transferencia de la gestión del riego - Directrices  
  pdf document (Size: 2,000 KB) versión html
• Socio-economic impact of small-holder irrigation development in Zimbabwe - Case studies of ten irrigation schemes
• Organization, operation and maintenance of irrigation schemes
• Reforming water resources policy - A guide to methods, processes and practices
• Réformer les Politiques dans le Domaine des Ressources en Eau: Guide des Méthodes, Processus et Pratiques
• Water sector policy review and strategy formulation: A general framework
• Management Devolution and the Sustainability of Irrigation: Results of Comprehensive versus Partial Strategies
• Transferencia de Sistemas de Riego a los Usuarios en países de América Latina y el Caribe
  pdf document (Size: 158 KB)

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INPIM documents   

• Irrigation Reform in the Kyrgyz Republic (pdf document) (NEW)
• Participatory management for agricultural water control in Vietnam: challenges and opportunities  (pdf document)
• Demand management of irrigation systems through users' participation (pdf document)
• Moving Upstream: Changing Roles for Users and the State in Irrigation Management
• Transferring Irrigation Systems from the State to Users: Questions of Management, Authority, and Ownership  (pdf document)
• Participatory Irrigation Management in Andhra Pradesh, Initial Apprehensions  (pdf document)
• Participatory irrigation management in Andhra Pradesh, contradictions of a supply-side approach (pdf document)
• State Administration, Devolution, and Water Markets in Irrigation Management  (pdf document)
• From Participatory Irrigation Management to Irrigation Management Transfer: The Process and Progress In Sri Lanka (pdf document)
• Draft Paper for Participatory Irrigation Management National Seminar in Albania (pdf document)
• Demand Management of Irrigation Systems Through Users' Participation (pdf document)
• Management Devolution and the Sustainability of Irrigation: Results of Comprehensive versus Partial Strategies (pdf document)
• Recent Results from IIMI's Research Program on Irrigation Management Transfer. (pdf document)

IWMI publications   

• Toward a New Paradigm for Maintaining and Financing Irrigation Systems: The Irrigation Investment Fund PowerPoint® presentation (NEW)
• Poverty Dimensions of Irrigation Management Transfer in Large-Scale Canal Irrigation in Andra Pradesh and Gujarat, India (pdf document)
• Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation: Lessons from International Experience with Irrigation Management Transfer (pdf document)
• Can poor farmers in South Africa shoulder the burden of irrigation management?
• An Assessment of the Small-scale Irrigation Management Turnover Program in Indonesia
• Farmer-Based Financing of Operations in the Niger Valley Irrigation Schemes
• Institutional Change and Shared Management of Water Resources in Large Canal Systems: Results of an Action Research Program in Pakistan
• Assessment of Participatory Management of Irrigation Schemes in Sri Lanka: Partial Reforms, Partial Benefits
• Impacts of Colombia's Current Irrigation Management Transfer Program
• Performance of Two Transferred Modules in the Lagunera Region: Water Relations
• Irrigation Management Transfer in Mexico: A Strategy to Achieve Irrigation District Sustainability
• Impact Assessment of Irrigation Management Transfer in the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, Mexico
• Impacts of Irrigation Management Transfer: A Review of the Evidence
• Free-Riders or Victims: Women's Nonparticipation in Irrigation Management in Nepal's Chhattis Mauja Irrigation Scheme
• Results of Management Turnover in Two Irrigation Districts in Colombia

World Bank documents   

• Electronic Learning Guidebook On Participatory Irrigation Management
• Participatory Irrigation Management In Indonesia: Lessons From Experience And Issues For The Future
• Participatory Irrigation Management In The Philippines: The Learning Process Approach in the National Irrigation Systems
• Participatory Irrigation Management In Albania
• Irrigation Management Transfer in Turkey: Process and Outcomes
• Benefits and Second Generation Problems of Irrigation Management Transfer in Mexico
• Benefits and Second Generation Problems of Irrigation Management Transfer in Colombia
• Participatory Irrigation Management: Benefits and Second Generation Problems

Other documents

• Irrigation Management Transfer: Decentralizing Public Irrigation in Mexico
• Irrigation Management Transfer: The View from Wuhan (China)
• Lao People's Dem Rep : Irrigation Management Transfer
• Irrigation management transfer project: Nepal
• From Voice to Empowerment: Rerouting Irrigation Reform in Indonesia
• Reflections on Turning Over Irrigation to Farmers: Collected Papers 1989-1994
• After the state farm: a water user association in Kazakhstan  
  pdf document
• Irrigation management transfer issues in Turkmenistan  
  pdf document
• Irrigation Associations in the Lower Seyhan Plain and the Gediz River Basin (Turkey)  
  pdf document
• Managing irrigation systems in preparation for management transfer
  pdf document

Links to Water Users' Associations

• Associations Syndicales Autorisées d'irrigation en France 

Other links

• The International Conference on Freshwater - Bonn 2001    
  This conference is aiming at identifying best practices and solutions to the current water crisis

• The World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)     
  This UN-wide programme seeks to develop the tools and skills needed to achieve a better understanding of those basic processes, management practices and policies that will help improve the supply and quality of global freshwater resources

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