• Modernizing irrigation management - the MASSCOTE approach



• Programa de Concesiones de Proyectos de Riego en Chile (pdf document)



• Modernization of irrigation system operations



• Land and water - the rights interface



• Administración de derechos de agua



• Preparing national regulations for water resources management - Principles and practice



• Legislation on water users's organizations - A comparative analysis



• Water Rights Administration - Experience, Issues and Guidelines



• Sources of International Water Law (pdf document)



• 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)

• 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

• 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



• Failure and Reform of Existing Incentives in the Irrigation Sector in the Ukraine



• Yield Impact of Irrigation Management Transfer: - Story from the Philippines

• Reforms In Turbulent Times - A study on the theory and practice of three irrigation management policy reform models in Mashonaland, Zimbabwe



• Rural Livelihoods And Irrigation Management Transfer: Case-Study of Three Countries in the Ferghana Valley of Central Asia



• Lao People's Dem Rep : Irrigation Management Transfer



• From Voice to Empowerment: Rerouting Irrigation Reform in Indonesia



• Reflections on Turning Over Irrigation to Farmers: Collected Papers 1989-1994



• 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 

• 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