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1 Neda. Netherlands Development Assistance. 1998. Egypt: Evaluation of the Netherlands Development Programme with Egypt, 1975-1996. Summary report, volume 1. The Hague, The Netherlands: Neda. 49p.
Development projects ; Development policy ; Development aid ; Financing ; Project evaluation ; International cooperation ; Water management ; Drainage ; Research institutes ; Animal husbandry ; Horticulture ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Wastewater ; Health / Egypt / Netherlands
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.9 G232 NED Record No: H023724)
2 Neda. Netherlands Development Assistance. 1998. Egypt: Evaluation of the Netherlands Development Programme with Egypt, 1975-1996. Main report, Volume 2. The Hague, The Netherlands: Neda. xii, 252p.
Development projects ; Development policy ; Development aid ; Financing ; Project evaluation ; International cooperation ; Water management ; Drainage ; Research institutes ; Animal husbandry ; Horticulture ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Health ; Women / Egypt / Netherlands
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.9 G232 NED Record No: H023725)
3 Neda. Netherlands Development Assistance. 1998. Egypt: Evaluation of the Netherlands support to water management and drainage, 1975-1996. Sub-report, Volume 3. The Hague, The Netherlands: Neda. xii, 204p.
Development projects ; Development policy ; Development aid ; Financing ; Project evaluation ; International cooperation ; Water management ; Water use ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigation canals ; Drainage ; Legislation ; Institutional constraints ; Research institutes ; Farmers' attitudes / Egypt / Netherlands
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.9 G232 NED Record No: H023726)
4 Amarasinghe, U. A.; Sakthivadivel, R.; Murray-Rust, H. 1998. Impact assessment of rehabilitation intervention in the Gal Oya Left Bank [Sri Lanka]. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI). v, 23p. (IWMI Research Report 018 / IIMI Research Report 018) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.013]
Irrigation management ; Water management ; Irrigation systems ; Productivity ; Rehabilitation ; Models ; Project evaluation ; Rain ; Reservoir storage / Sri Lanka / Gal Oya Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7.7 G744 AMA Record No: H022220)
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Assesses the impact of rehabilitation interventions on irrigation system performance using time series analysis. The study demonstrates that with proper impact specification and model identification, the nature and magnitude of the impacts of different interventions can be separated from the effects of simultaneous changes in dominant exogenous factors.
5 Abebe, W. B.; McCartney, Matthew; Douven, W. J. A. M.; Leentvaar, J. 2008. Environmental impact assessment follow-up in the Koga Irrigation Project, Ethiopia. In Humphreys, E.; Bayot, R. S.; van Brakel, M.; Gichuki, F.; Svendsen, M.; Wester, P.; Huber-Lee, A.; Cook, S. Douthwaite, B.; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnson, N.; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie; Vidal, A.; MacIntyre, I.; MacIntyre, R. (Eds.). Fighting poverty through sustainable water use: proceedings of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-14 November 2008. Vol.3. Water benefits sharing for poverty alleviation and conflict management; Drivers and processes of change. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. pp.52-55.
Irrigation programs ; Watershed management ; Environmental impact assessment ; Development projects ; Project evaluation ; Farmer participation ; Social participation / Ethiopia / Koga Irrigation Project
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G000 HUM Record No: H041679)
http://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/3708/IFWF2_proceedings_Volume%20III.pdf?sequence=1
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041679.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041679.pdf
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6 Gittinger J. P. 1982. Economic analysis of agricultural projects. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press. 505p.
Economic analysis ; Project evaluation ; Agricultural economics ; Cost benefit analysis ; Investment ; Farms
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 GIT Record No: H043163)
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7 Kazbekov, Jusipbek; Wegerich, Kai; Yakubov, Murat; Musayev, Sardorbek; Akramova, Indira. 2015. Project owners – overlooked factors of uncertainty in the example of a water infrastructure improvement project? Environmental Science and Policy, 53(Part B):236-245. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.06.019]
Water management ; Water user associations ; Water law ; Project evaluation ; Stakeholders ; Knowledge management ; Uncertainty ; Risk management ; Case studies / Central Asia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047102)
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Donor sponsored projects are often criticized for the tendency to impose standardized institutional and technical solutions in irrigation. Although, this might be the case, a project is based on internal actors, ‘project owners’, who influence solutions and implementation processes. Little attention has been paid to project owners, internal dynamics and how these shape aid projects. In this paper, a water user associations (WUAs) project in Central Asia is explored, which introduced flow regulating and metering devices (hydroposts). It is explored how change within project owners, differences in their interests and absence of a proper knowledge management system within the project influenced the alteration of project objectives, causing failure of the implementation process. The paper concludes that internal dynamics within projects are the main source of project uncertainty and risk. Some recommendations are offered how these risks can be minimized.
8 Brown, K. A.; Hyer, N. L. 2010. Managing projects: a team-based approach. New York, NY, USA: McGraw-Hill Irwin. 416p. + DVD. (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series Operations and Decision Sciences)
Project management ; Project design ; Group approaches ; Managers ; Project evaluation ; Performance indexes ; Risk assessment ; Estimation ; Uncertainty ; Time management ; Resource allocation ; Institutional constraints ; Organizational design ; Economic analysis ; Monitoring ; Communication ; Planning ; Decision making ; Computer software ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 658.404 G000 BRO Record No: H047339)
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9 Kumar, S.; Groth, A.; Vlacic, L. 2016. A tool for evaluation of lifecycle cost of water production for small-scale community projects. Water Policy, 18(3):769-782. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2015.135]
Water supply ; Production costs ; Life cycle analysis ; Cost analysis ; Models ; Communities ; Drinking water treatment ; Water quality ; Project evaluation ; Small scale systems
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047620)
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The aim of this study is to develop an analytical tool to estimate lifecycle cost for water service provision for small-scale community water projects. The primary objective is to provide an analytical estimation tool to governments, funding agencies and communities to ensure sustainability of water projects. The secondary objective is to use the tool as an industry benchmarking aid to empower governments, funding agencies and technology developers to support technologies that would further lower the cost of water production. The tool firstly considers capital expenditure required for a given water service system, focusing on equipment manufacturing costs in detail. Thereafter, it considers the operational expenditure associated with ongoing functioning of the water treatment plant. The developed tool is validated using five simulation scenarios. Results shows that the tool can be used to evaluate the performance of a water service system even if the water services systems are operated using varying strategies. The developed tool also enables effective decision making by testing alternatives and addressing the water service system lifecycle aspects and, thus, making the cost of water production manageable. This paper also introduces the web version of the tool, which is available to communities, governments, technology developers and funding agencies to use.
10 Mateo-Sagasta, Javier; Qadir, M.; Drechsel, Pay; Hanjra, M. A. 2017. Aspectos economicos e institucionales en la reutilizacion de aguas y ejemplos en America Latina y el Caribe. In Spanish. [Economic and institutional aspects of water reuse and examples in Latin America and the Caribbean]. In Mateo-Sagasta, Javier (Ed.). Reutilizacion de aguas para agricultura en America Latina y el Caribe: estado, principios y necesidades. Santiago, Chile: FAO. pp.43-55.
Waste water treatment plants ; Water reuse ; Economic aspects ; Corporate culture ; Project evaluation ; Cost benefit analysis ; Investment ; Budgets ; Strategies ; Political aspects ; Case studies ; Urban areas / Latin America / Caribbean / Chile / Peru
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048426)
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11 Kafle, K.; Krah, K.; Songsermsawas, T. 2018. High Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas (HVAP): impact assessment report. Federal democratic republic of Nepal. Rome, Italy: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). 64p.
Agricultural development ; Project evaluation ; Impact assessment ; Food security ; Poverty ; Agricultural production ; Livestock ; Markets ; Supply chain ; Producer organizations ; Household income ; Assets ; Food consumption ; Farmers ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Decision making ; Resilience ; Indicators ; Highlands / Nepal / Karnali
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049285)
https://www.ifad.org/documents/38714170/41096781/NP_HVAP_IA+report.pdf/ddef40a6-c0c9-6778-1434-96156b9104c5
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049285.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049285.pdf
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12 Child, K.; Desta, G.; Douthwaite, B.; Haileslassie, Amare; van Rooyen, A.; Tamene, L.; Uhlenbrook, Stefan. 2021. Impact tracking: a practitioner-developed approach to scaling agricultural innovation in Ethiopia. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 28p. (WLE Legacy Series 1) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.226]
Agricultural innovation ; Scaling ; Impact assessment ; Agricultural research for development ; Project evaluation ; Policies ; Research programmes ; Funding ; Partnerships ; Community involvement ; Watershed management ; Irrigation equipment ; Taxes ; Landscape ; Data management ; Stakeholders ; Collaboration ; Case studies ; Innovation scaling / Ethiopia / Yewol Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050789)
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This paper argues for more creativity and flexibility in agricultural research for development (AR4D) scaling and impact evaluation in complex contexts. While acknowledging the importance of setting reasonable end-of-project targets and outcomes, we argue that the achievement of outcomes and impacts, particularly in complex contexts, requires adaptive management and acknowledgment that significant positive outcomes and impacts may occur after the project funding cycle is complete. The paper presents a practitioner-developed approach to scaling AR4D innovations called Impact Tracking (IT). We illustrate IT in practice by presenting three case studies from Ethiopia in which IT proved crucial to achieving impact. The paper concludes by drawing lessons from the case studies and discussing what implications IT may have for development practitioners.
13 Reddy, V. R.; Pavelic, Paul; Reddy, M. S. 2021. Participatory management and sustainable use of groundwater: a review of the Andhra Pradesh Farmer-Managed Groundwater Systems project in India. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 21p. (Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP) Case Profile Series 05) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.224]
Groundwater management ; Participatory management ; Water use efficiency ; Sustainable use ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Water systems ; Project evaluation ; Capacity development ; Awareness-raising ; Technology transfer ; Behavioural changes ; Groundwater extraction ; Pumping ; Wells ; Groundwater level ; Hydrological factors ; Water policies ; Regulations ; Equity ; Crop production ; Water budget ; Institutions ; Funding ; Non-governmental organizations ; Water user associations ; Livelihoods ; Food security ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Rural communities ; Villages / India / Andhra Pradesh Farmer-Managed Groundwater Systems Project / Anantapur / Chittoor / Cuddapah / Kurnool / Mahbubnagar / Nalgonda / Prakasam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050839)
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This GRIPP Case Profile assesses whether the proactive involvement of rural communities in the management of groundwater positively contributes towards sustainable resource use. The assessment uses the long-term (2003-2013) Andhra Pradesh Farmer-Managed Groundwater Systems (APFAMGS) project in India as a case study. Implemented across seven districts, the assessment is based on a critical review and synthesis of existing literature and complementary field visits conducted five years after project closure. APFAMGS worked towards creating awareness and bringing about behavioral change to achieve sustainable groundwater use, primarily for irrigation. The approach focused on knowledge transfer and capacity building to set up participatory processes conducive to informal management measures, and technologies supporting participatory hydrological monitoring and crop water budgeting. In addition, awareness creation in relation to demand as well as supply side management options was critical. The analysis suggests that APFAMGS has helped in filling the knowledge and information gaps on groundwater resources among local farming communities. Some degree of long-term reduction in groundwater pumping was observed, but the attribution to the project is not clear, and effects on reducing groundwater level declines may be limited and localized. The APFAMGS approach of participatory groundwater management (PGM) fell short in terms of equity considerations, with implications for the institutional sustainability of the approach. The study provides policy guidance for adopting more inclusive PGM-based institutions on a wider scale.
14 Joshi, Deepa; Braaten, Y.; Hakhu, Arunima; Pradhan, Rubina; Gallant, Bryce. 2021. Gender and inclusion in the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE): an end of program reflection and evaluation. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 30p. (WLE Legacy Series 5) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2022.207]
Gender equality ; Social inclusion ; CGIAR ; Research programmes ; Project evaluation ; Agricultural research for development ; Gender-transformative approaches ; Women ; Marginalization ; Social change ; Norms ; Learning ; Institutions ; Corporate culture ; Stakeholders ; Policies ; Diversification ; Impact assessment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050977)
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The growing relevance of research on gender and social inclusion in agricultural research for development calls for systemic, transformative change processes. Transformative gender ambitions can stand at odds with personal biases and experiences that shape diverse understandings of gender, institutional values, structures and cultures that tend to reward technological quick-fix solutions, and other practical challenges to ‘doing’ gender on the ground. Very little is known about these challenges. How are these challenges navigated by (relatively small) teams of gender researchers, who are often caught between the demand for tangible fast gains on gender, and the intractable challenges of deep-rooted and complex, intersectional gender inequalities? This was the focus of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) End of Program Reflection and Evaluation (EoPRE) to assess how gender and inclusion research is pursued, and the key barriers to knowing and doing gender in eight research projects. Adopting a reflexive, self-analytical feminist approach to evaluation, this EoPRE facilitated eight project teams, diverse and with an uneven focus on gender, to connect the dots between the processes of knowing and doing gender research. A key finding of this evaluation is that the need for change is foremost internal. We need to begin by fixing our personal biases and assumptions, and fixing institutional cultures, values and structures instead of just trying to fix things out there, including fixing poor and marginalized women. A key recommendation is to seek more regular and open conversations across researcher disciplines and hierarchies, and between CGIAR and external partners and stakeholders, including feminist grassroots actors and networks – on what works well (and does not) and why. This would allow us to grasp why we start with different meanings and conceptualizations of gender; how agile we are (or not) in adapting to changes on the ground; and how, through a culture of reflection and learning, we might shift pathways to more transformative change processes in a fast evolving and increasingly unequal world.
15 Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Seo, S. N. 2022. An analysis of Sri Lankan and Indian water projects under the Green Climate Fund. In Seo, S. N. (Ed.). Handbook of behavioral economics and climate change. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp.368-385. [doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880740.00027]
Water management ; Project evaluation ; Public sector ; Investment ; Water security ; Climate change adaptation ; River basins ; Irrigation systems ; Villages ; Tanks ; Agricultural productivity ; Rice ; Farmers ; Rain / Sri Lanka / India / Knuckles Mountain Range Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051553)
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This chapter reviews and analyzes the Indian and Sri Lankan projects funded by the Green Climate Fund, emphasizing the Sri Lankan water projects. The GCF's Sri Lanka projects focuses on water resources and security in two regions: The Northeastern village irrigation with village tanks project and the Knuckles Mountain Range water project. We provide an initial analysis of these projects concerning several indicators: efficient public intervention, water and agricultural impacts, paddy yield impacts, and socio-political institutions.
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