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(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7088042 G635 SAI Record No: H027769)
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This study highlights the gender aspects of a community-based irrigation program supported by the NGO, Sadguru. It focuses on the intra-household organization of irrigated agriculture, the gender dimensions of scheme-level irrigation management, and Sadguru's efforts to strengthen women's participation in irrigation cooperatives.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7088042 G726 VAN Record No: H028139)
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Examines the gendered organization of irrigated farming and identifies processes of inclusion and exclusion of women irrigators and women leaders in water users committees. The research evaluates the success of efforts by the newly formed Water Users Association to include women. Recommendations based on the findings are made to address the problems faced by the women irrigators and leaders in the West Gandak scheme.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G178 PRA Record No: H034479)
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4 Moriarty, P.; Butterworth, J.; van Koppen, Barbara; Soussan, J. 2004. Water, poverty and productive uses of water at the household level. In Moriarty, P.; Butterworth, J.; van Koppen, B. (Eds.), Beyond domestic: Case studies on poverty and productive uses of water a t the household level. Delft, Netherlands: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre; IWMI. pp.19-47.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 339.46 G000 MOR Record No: H035331)
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(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H035758)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G148 VAN Record No: H035857)
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In the past decade the Tanzanian government, with a loan from the World Bank, designed and implemented a new administrative water rights system with the aim of improving basin-level water management and cost-recovery for government water-resource management services. This paper evaluates the processes and impacts after the first years of implementing the new system in the Upper Ruaha catchment. In this area, the majority of water users are small-scale irrigators and livestock keepers who develop and manage water according to customary arrangements, without much state support. Although water resources are abundant, growing water demands intensify water scarcity during the dry season. Contrary to expectations, the new system has failed as a registration tool, a taxation tool, and a water management tool, and has also contributed to aggravating rural poverty. As a taxation tool, the system not only introduces corruption by design, but also drains government coffers because the collection costs are higher than any revenue gained. As a water management tool, the new system aggravates upstream-downstream conflicts, because the upstream water users claim that paying for water entitles them to use it as they like. However, unlike these and other counterproductive impacts of the new system, the taxation of the few private large-scale water users according to negotiated rates appeared to be feasible. The paper argues that the root of these paradoxical results lies in the dichotomy between the 'modern' large-scale rural and urban economy with its corresponding legislation and the rural spheres in which Tanzania's majority of small-scale water users live under customary water tenure. While the new water rights system fits the relatively better-off minority to some extent, it is an anomaly for Tanzania's majority of poor water users. This paper concludes by suggesting easy adaptations in the current water rights system that would accommodate both groups water users, improve cost-recovery for government services, mitigate water conflicts and alleviate rural poverty.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G178 LAD Record No: H035860)
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(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G148 MCC SF Record No: H035872)
FAO-Netherlands Partnership Programme (FNPP) on Sustainable Development and Management of Wetlands. AG:FNPP/GLO/002/NET Field document
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G184 MAS Record No: H035873)
FAO-Netherlands Partnership Programme (FNPP) on Sustainable Development and Management of Wetlands. AG:FNPP/GLO/002/NET Field document
10 Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Merrey, Douglas; van Koppen, Barbara; Kamara, Abdul; Penning de Vries, Frits; Boelee, Eline. 2005. Roles, constraints and opportunities of small scale irrigation and water harvesting in Ethiopian agricultural development: Assessment of existing situation. Paper presented at the East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7-9 March 2005. [Vol.1]. Funded by IWMI, and others. 11p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G132 SOK Record No: H037499)
11 Sokile, C. S.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2005. Managing the business: potential and pitfalls of water rights and water tariffs in allocating and managing water in water stressed basins: the case of Rufiji Basin in Tanzania. Paper presented at the East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7-9 March 2005. [Vol.1]. Funded by IWMI, and others. 11p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G132 SOK Record No: H037510)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G178 WAL Record No: H037789)
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(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 G136 AWU Record No: H038044)
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(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G110 VAN Record No: H038101)
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15 van Koppen, Barbara; Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina. 2005. Poverty and gender issues. In van Koppen, Barbara; Namara, Regassa; Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina. Reducing poverty through investments in agricultural water management. Colombo, Sri Lanka: IWMI. pp.2-18. (IWMI Working Paper 101)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G110 VAN Record No: H038102)
16 Moriarty, P.; Butterworth, J.; van Koppen, Barbara. (Eds.) 2004. Beyond domestic: case studies on poverty and productive uses of water at the household level. Delft, Netherlands: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 242p. (IRC technical paper series 41)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 339.46 G000 MOR Record No: H035330)
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17 Lankford, B.; van Koppen, Barbara; Franks, T.; Mahoo, H. 2004. Entrenched views or insufficient science?: contested causes and solutions of water allocation: Insights from the Great Ruaha River Basin, Tanzania. Agricultural Water Management, 69(2):135-153.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H035692)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 VAN Record No: H038377)
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This research report presents the findings of the first phase of the action-research project "Models for implementing multiple-use water supply systems for enhanced land and water productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity." Multipleuse water services, or "mus" in short, is a participatory, integrated and poverty-reduction focused approach in poor rural and peri-urban areas, which takes people's multiple water needs as a starting point for providing integrated services, moving beyond the conventional sectoral barriers of the domestic and productive sectors.
19 van Koppen, Barbara; Butterworth, J.; Juma, I. (Eds.) 2005. African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks For Rural Water Management in Africa: an international workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005. Workshop co-organised by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich, and the Faculty of Law, University of Dar-es-Salaam. v.p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G100 VAN Record No: H038740)
20 Sokile, C. S.; Mwaruvanda, W.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2005. Integrated water resource management in Tanzania: Interface between formal and informal institutions. In van Koppen, Barbara; Butterworth, J.; Juma, I. (Eds.). African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks for Rural Water Management in Africa: An International Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005. pp.28-1/28-13.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G100 VAN Record No: H038764)
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