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1 Eguavoen, I.. 2008. Changing household water rights in rural northern Ghana Development, 51(1): 126-129.
Water rights ; Water policy ; Water allocation ; Drinking water ; Villages / Ghana / Volta River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041404)
In rural northern Ghana, changing hydrology and donor policies impact on household water supply and water rights. Ghana has adopted the community-based management approach in its national drinking water policy. Irit Eguavoen looks at how some policy concepts contradict pre-existing water rights; water users are challenged to balance project requirements, local norms, and ecological circumstances leading to divergent priorities and to more restricted access to water.
2 McCartney, Matthew; Eguavoen, I.. 2010. Rethinking water storage for agricultural adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the Annual Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural and Natural Resource Management (Tropentag) Conference on World Food System - a contribution from Europe, Thematic scientific session on Water management, Zurich, Switzerland, 14 -16 September 2010. 4p. (published online)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043274)
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3 Xenarios, Stefanos; McCartney, Matthew; Polatidis, H.; Eguavoen, I.. 2011. Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa. [Abstract only]. In German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management - Management Water in a Changing World: Lessons Learnt and Innovative Perspectives, Dresden, Germany, 12-13 October 2011. Abstracts. Bonn, Germany: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). pp.150.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044447)
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4 Xenarios, Stefanos; McCartney, Matthew; Polatidis, H.; Eguavoen, I.. 2011. Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management - Management Water in a Changing World: Lessons Learnt and Innovative Perspectives, Dresden, Germany, 12-13 October 2011. 14p.
Water storage ; Adaptation ; Climate change ; Economic aspects ; Case studies / Africa South of Sahara / Ethiopia / Ghana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044450)
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The development of water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa is considered a major aid for agricultural regions with scarce water and anticipated climate change impacts. The selection of storage options is often conducted through monetary assessment of direct costs and benefits. Such an approach, although prompt and straightforward, often leads to reductionism in the assessment process and loss of valuable information. This in turn can result in less than optimal decision-making. Against this background, this paper proposes an alternative approach based on an outranking methodology designed with thresholds and weighting values. Though based on the underlying principle of economic efficiency, the approach proposed avoids some crucial weaknesses of cost-benefit analysis and places greater emphasis on socioeconomic and environmental criteria. The method has been evaluated in six case studies conducted in Ethiopia and Ghana.
5 Eguavoen, I.; Derib, S. D.; Deneke, T. T.; McCartney, Matthew; Otto, B. A.; Billa, S. S. 2011. Digging, damming or diverting? Small-scale irrigation in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. Bonn, Germany: Center for Development Research (ZEF). 31p. (ZEF Working Paper Series 84)
Irrigation systems ; Small scale systems ; Irrigation schemes ; Irrigation scheduling ; Farmer managed irrigation systems ; River basins ; Dams ; Wells ; Ponds ; Social aspects ; Climate change ; Land use ; Land cover ; Water allocation ; Water user associations ; Agricultural production ; Conflict ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Gender / Ethiopia / Fogera Plains / Blue Nile River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044597)
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The diversity of small-scale irrigation on the Fogera plains, in the Ethiopian Blue Nile river basin, includes small dams, hand-dug wells, ponds and river diversion systems. These facilities, however, receive little political attention in negotiations over Nile resources, which focus primarily on large dams. Nevertheless, they are important in relation to their impact on local livelihoods, as well as their potential to contribute to adaptive capacity in the light of anticipated climate change. The diversity of irrigation infrastructure is partly a consequence of the topographic heterogeneity of the plains, as well as a range of other biophysical factors. Communities within the region cope with similar social-political conditions, the same administrative framework and similar access to markets, yet facilities are still acquired, used and managed differently. Production systems as well as the social dynamics accompanying them are far from homogeneous, though, which calls for critical evaluation, especially as small scale irrigation is managed by beneficiaries; a policy paradigm just starting to be implemented for large dams in Ethiopia. The article also discusses the impact of large dams on the hydrological regime of the plains, as well as the possible impact of anticipated climate change.
6 Xenarios, Stefanos; Eguavoen, I.; McCartney, Matthew. 2012. A comparative socio-economic analysis of water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the 2nd International Comparative Water Studies Workshop, Bonn, Germany, 20-21 January 2012. 20p.
Water storage ; Climate change ; Cost benefit analysis ; Socioeconomic development ; Case studies ; River basins / Ethiopia / Ghana / Blue Nile River Basin / Volta River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044690)
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The recent interest of international funding organizations for financing water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa as a response to anticipated climate change has revived the debate on more appropriate methodologies for welfare assessments. Increasingly, water storage construction is moving away from single objectives like simple irrigation or hydropower production to multiple purpose systems. The inclusion of other socially and environmental related aspects like poverty alleviation and sustenance of minimum ecological services becomes a highly demanding objective for most of the donors. The multi-objective purpose of water storage questions in turn impacts the scaling of a storage scheme as well as the effectiveness of larger versus smaller technical options.The prevailing monetary assessments of direct costs and benefits appear inefficient to capture the diversity of multi-objective targets and the scaling issue by often indicating sub-optimal solutions. The current study proposes an alternative methodological approach based on an outranking methodology equipped with a set of preference conditions and weighting indices. Though based on the underlying principle of economic efficiency, the approach avoids some crucial weaknesses of the mainstream analysis by giving higher attention to a wider range of criteria. The method was tested in six case studies in Ethiopia and Ghana where representative small and large water storage types of Sub-Saharan Africa (small dams, large dams, wells, river diversion, ponds and soil moisture) were assessed in comparison to each other and then evaluated with the help of ethnographic findings.
7 Eguavoen, I.; Derib, S. D.; Deneke, T. T.; McCartney, Matthew; Otto, B. A.; Billa, S. S. 2012. Digging, damming or diverting?: small-scale irrigation in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. Water Alternatives, 5(3):678-699.
Small scale systems ; Irrigation schemes ; Irrigation scheduling ; River basins ; Water storage ; Water rights ; Land rights ; Land use ; Dams ; Wells ; Ponds ; Plains ; Case studies ; Water user associations ; Water allocation ; Agricultural production ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Gender / Ethiopia / Blue Nile Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045113)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045113.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045113.pdf
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The diversity of small-scale irrigation in the Ethiopian Blue Nile basin comprises small dams, wells, ponds and river diversion. The diversity of irrigation infrastructure is partly a consequence of the topographic heterogeneity of the Fogera plains. Despite similar social-political conditions and the same administrative framework, irrigation facilities are established, used and managed differently, ranging from informal arrangements of households and 'water fathers' to water user associations, as well as from open access to irrigation schedules. Fogera belongs to Ethiopian landscapes that will soon transform as a consequence of large dams and huge irrigation schemes. Property rights to land and water are negotiated among a variety of old and new actors. This study, based on ethnographic, hydrological and survey data, synthesises four case studies to analyse the current state of small-scale irrigation. It argues that all water storage options have not only certain comparative advantages but also social constraints, and supports a policy of extending water storage 'systems' that combine and build on complementarities of different storage types instead of fully replacing diversity by large dams.
8 Eguavoen, I.; McCartney, Matthew. 2013. Water storage: a contribution to climate change adaptation in Africa. Rural 21, 47(1):38-41.
Water storage ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Poverty ; Food security ; River basins ; Investment / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045805)
http://www.rural21.com/uploads/media/rural2013_01-S38-41.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045805.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H045805.pdf
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Water storage can help to safeguard livelihoods and reduce rural poverty. However, ill-conceived water storage will fail to deliver intended benefits and, in some cases, may worsen the negative impacts of climate change. More systematic planning is required to ensure suitable storage systems that support development targets, as an international research project demonstrates.
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