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1 International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2001. Evaluation of the integrated management of agricultural settlements (INMAS) program. Final report. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 41p.
Integrated management ; Agricultural production ; Irrigation schemes ; Farmers organizations ; Households ; Income ; Rice ; Corporate culture
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H045934)
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2 Project Management Institute. 2013. A guide to the project management body of knowledge. (PMBOK guide). 5th ed. Newtown Square, PA, USA: Project Management Institute. 589p.
Project management ; Guidelines ; Standards ; Corporate culture ; Time management ; Human resources management ; Communication ; Cost analysis ; Budgets ; Risk management ; Risk analysis ; Procurement planning ; Quality assurance ; Quality controls ; Monitoring ; Planning ; Integrated management ; Stakeholders ; Techniques
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 658.404 G000 PRO Record No: H047336)
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3 Saruchera, D.; Lautze, Jonathan. 2015. Measuring transboundary water cooperation: learning from the past to inform the sustainable development goals. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 28p. (IWMI Working Paper 168) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2015.219]
International waters ; Cooperation ; International agreements ; Sustainable development ; River basin management ; Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water governance ; Indicators ; Information management ; Financing ; Legislation ; Water law ; Water allocation ; Monitoring ; Capacity building ; Stakeholders ; Policy making ; Planning / South Africa / Botswana / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047338)
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Water cooperation has received prominent focus in the post-2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While proposals for measuring water cooperation appear to be converging toward a small set of indicators, the degree to which these proposed indicators draw on past work is unclear. This paper mines relevant past work to generate guidance for monitoring the proposed SDG target related to transboundary water cooperation. Potential measures of water cooperation were identified, filtered and applied in three countries (Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe). Six indicators were ultimately determined as being suitable for measuring water cooperation. As the SDG process turns its focus to the selection of indicators, the indicators proposed in this paper may merit consideration.
4 Hack, J. 2015. Application of payments for hydrological ecosystem services to solve problems of fit and interplay in integrated water resources management. Water International, 40(5-6):929-948. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2015.1096122]
Ecosystem services ; Hydrological factors ; User charges ; Water resources ; Integrated management ; Water management ; Water use ; River basin management ; Environmental management ; Corporate culture ; Stakeholders ; Public participation ; Energy ; Case studies / Nicaragua / Gil Gonzalez River Basin / Rio La Golondrina / Rio Esteli / Rio Paso los Caballos
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047406)
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This article assesses the role of payments for hydrological ecosystem services for integrated water resources management within the water–energy–food nexus. Current challenges of implementation are structured according to spatial fit and institutional interplay. An empirical analysis of several case studies of locally self-organized payments for hydrological ecosystem services in Nicaragua reveals potential contributions to operationalization of integrated water resources management and the water–energy–food nexus.
5 Grobicki, A.; MacLeod, F.; Pischke, F. 2015. Integrated policies and practices for flood and drought risk management. Water Policy, 17(S1):180-194. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2015.009]
Disaster risk management ; Policy ; Flood control ; Drought ; Resilience ; Water management ; Integrated management ; River basin development ; Sustainable development
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047428)
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The paper argues for an integrated approach to the management of water-related disasters that becomes a full part of the political decision-making process at the earliest possible moment and focuses on preparedness, mitigating their negative impacts and also considering their positive impacts, particularly those of floods. By doing this, there is an opportunity to consider the three pillars of sustainable development, and understand the options that exist and the trade-offs that may need to be made between economic efficiency, environmental sustainability and social equity. Within the post-2015 agenda, water-related disasters are addressed by targets under a number of different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As climate change becomes an ever-more-present reality, whose impacts are often experienced through water-related disasters such as floods and droughts, there is an urgent need to build disaster-resilient societies through more integrated policies and practices, including stakeholders’ perspectives and a partnership approach. The paper provides stakeholder perspectives and approaches from around the world that are putting these ideas into practice.
6 Shah, Tushaar; van Koppen, Barbara. 2016. The precept and practice of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in India. In Narain, V.; Narayanamoorthy, A. (Eds). Indian water policy at the crossroads: resources, technology and reforms. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. pp.15-33.
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water scarcity ; Water governance ; Water rates ; Groundwater ; Corporate culture ; Economic growth / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047447)
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7 Mersha, A. N.; de Fraiture, C.; Mehari, A.; Masih, I.; Alamirew, T. 2016. Integrated water resources management: contrasting principles, policy, and practice, Awash River Basin, Ethiopia. Water Policy, 18(2):335-354. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2015.049]
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water policy ; River basins ; Water authorities ; Institutional reform ; Strategies ; Planning ; Water users ; Stakeholders ; Regulations ; Environmental effects / Ethiopia / Awash River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047559)
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Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been a dominant paradigm for water sector reform worldwide over the past two decades. Ethiopia, among early adopters, has developed a water policy, legislations, and strategy per IWRM core principles. However, considerable constraints are still in its way of realization. This paper investigates the central challenges facing IWRM implementation in the Awash Basin analyzing the discrepancy between IWRM principles, the approach followed in Ethiopia and its practice in the Awash Basin. A decade and a half since its adoption, the Ethiopian IWRM still lacks a well-organized and robust legal system for implementation. Unclear and overlapping institutional competencies as well as a low level of stakeholders’ awareness on policy contents and specific mandates of implementing institutions have prevented the Basin Authority from fully exercising its role as the prime institute for basin level water management. As a result, coordination between stakeholders, a central element of the IWRM concept, is lacking. Insufficient management instruments and planning tools for the operational function of IWRM are also among the major hurdles in the process. This calls for rethinking and action on key elements of the IWRM approach to tackle the implementation challenges.
8 Amerasinghe, Priyanie; Sonkamble, S.; Jampani, Mahesh; Wajihuddin, Md.; Lakshmanan, E.; Starkl, M.; Sarah, S.; Fahimuddin, Md.; Ahmed, S. 2015. Developing integrated management plans for natural treatment systems in urbanised areas: case studies from Hyderabad and Chennai. In Wintgens. T.; Nattorp, A.; Elango, L.; Asolekar, S. R. (Eds.). Natural water treatment systems for safe and sustainable water supply in the Indian context: Saph Pani, London, UK: IWA Publishing. pp. 251-264.
Integrated management ; Urban areas ; Waste water treatment plants ; Pollution prevention ; Sanitation ; Water supply ; Water quality ; Sewerage ; Waste management ; Drinking water treatment ; Lakes ; Urban wastes ; Wetlands ; Ponds ; Dams ; Stakeholders ; Contamination ; Case studies / India / Hyderabad / Chennai
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047551)
https://zenodo.org/record/61088/files/9781780408392_15.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047551.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047551.pdf
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9 Shah, Tushaar. 2016. Increasing water security: the key to implementing the sustainable development goals. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership, Technical Committee (TEC) 56p. (TEC Background Papers 22)
Water security ; Sustainable development ; Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water governance ; Water supply ; Water demand ; Groundwater ; Environmental effects ; Economic development ; Cost recovery ; Socioeconomic development ; Stakeholders
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047582)
http://www.gwp.org/Global/GWP-SAm_Files/Publicaciones/Del-TEC/GWP_TEC22_web.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047582.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047582.pdf
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10 Mapedza, Everisto; Manzungu, E.; Rosen, T.; Ncube, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2016. Decentralised water governance in Zimbabwe: disorder within order. Water Resources and Rural Development, 8:1-11. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wrr.2016.05.001]
Water governance ; Decentralization ; Land reform ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects ; Social aspects ; Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water users ; Catchment areas / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047587)
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The Decentralised Water reform process in Zimbabwe has largely been informed by the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) process based on the 1992 Dublin Principles onWater. The attempt to reform one sector (water), under the IWRM rubric, when other key sectors are in disarray (agriculture, energy) and when social and government institutions, in general, are not functioning as they should, made it more complicated. The decentralised water reform process, with support from a number of donors, was perceived to be a technical process which would result in better water management in Zimbabwe. The research in Zimbabwe, however, shows that instead of establishing order within the water sector, the reform process has largely been disorderly since it downplays the political nature of the water reform process. In attempting to change the water legislation, the reform brought out the different and competing interests on water. The economic crisis, the contested land reform process that ensued, resulted in disorder which benefited those who are politically connected. This paper contributes to the scholarship on the need to have a better political economy approach to development interventions such as water reform as they have to play out in political, social and economic contexts which will impact on human livelihoods.
11 Zhu, T.; Marques, G. F.; Lund, J. R. 2015. Hydroeconomic optimization of integrated water management and transfers under stochastic surface water supply. Water Resources Research, 51(5):3568-3587. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR016519]
Water management ; Integrated management ; Water transfer ; Surface water ; Groundwater recharge ; Water supply ; Hydrology ; Stochastic models ; Water availability ; Water use ; Conjunctive use ; Water conservation ; Water market ; Economic value ; Agricultural sector ; Urban areas ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047546)
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Efficient reallocation and conjunctive operation of existing water supplies is gaining importance as demands grow, competitions among users intensify, and new supplies become more costly. This paper analyzes the roles and benefits of conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater and market-based water transfers in an integrated regional water system where agricultural and urban water users coordinate supply and demand management based on supply reliability and economic values of water. Agricultural users optimize land and water use for annual and perennial crops to maximize farm income, while urban users choose short-term and long-term water conservation actions to maintain reliability and minimize costs. The temporal order of these decisions is represented in a two-stage optimization that maximizes the net expected benefits of crop production, urban conservation and water management including conjunctive use and water transfers. Long-term decisions are in the first stage and short-term decisions are in a second stage based on probabilities of water availability events. Analytical and numerical analyses are made. Results show that conjunctive use and water transfers can substantially stabilize farmer’s income and reduce system costs by reducing expensive urban water conservation or construction. Water transfers can equalize marginal values of water across users, while conjunctive use minimizes water marginal value differences in time. Model results are useful for exploring the integration of different water demands and supplies through water transfers, conjunctive use, and conservation, providing valuable insights for improving system management.
12 Conca, K. 2015. Which risks get managed? addressing climate effects in the context of evolving water-governance institutions. Water Alternatives, 8(3):301-316.
Risk management ; Water governance ; Institution building ; Climate change ; Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water policy ; Development projects ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects ; Financing ; Uncertainty
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047609)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/293-a8-3-1/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047609.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047609.pdf
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Warnings about climate change invariably stress water-related effects. Such effects are typically framed as both unpredictable and disruptive, and are thus said to create large new risks to the water sector demanding adaptive responses. This article examines how such responses are mediated by, and also compromised by, two dominant trends in the evolution of water governance institutions: (1) the rise of an “integrated” paradigm of water resources management, which has encouraged the development of more complex and interconnected water institutions, and (2) the rapidly changing political economy of water financing and investment. Each of these trends carries its own strong presumptions about what constitutes water-related risk and how such risk is properly managed. The article uses the specific example of large dam projects to illustrate how these ongoing trends in water governance shape and complicate the prospect of managing climate-water risks.
13 Bell, A.; Matthews, Nathanial; Zhang, W. 2016. Opportunities for improved promotion of ecosystem services in agriculture under the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 6(1):183-191. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-016-0366-9]
Payment for Ecosystem Services ; Payment agreements ; Water power ; Water security ; Water use ; Water quality ; Food security ; Energy consumption ; Agriculture ; Integrated management ; Pest management ; Drinking water ; Landscape ; Conservation agriculture ; Farmers ; Environmental management ; Case studies / Malawi / Cambodia / Vietnam / Shire River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047782)
In this study, we focus on water quality as a vehicle to illustrate the role that the water, energy, and food (WEF) Nexus perspective may have in promoting ecosystem services in agriculture. The mediation of water quality by terrestrial systems is a key ecosystem service for a range of actors (municipalities, fishers, industries, and energy providers) and is reshaped radically by agricultural activity. To address these impacts, many programs exist to promote improved land-use practices in agriculture; however, where these practices incur a cost or other burden to the farmer, adoption can be low unless some form of incentive is provided (as in a payment for ecosystem services (PES) program). Provision of such incentives can be a challenge to sustain in the long term, if there is not a clear beneficiary or other actor willing to provide them. Successfully closing the loop between impacts and incentives often requires identifying a measurable and valuable service with a clear central beneficiary that is impacted by the summative effects of the diffuse agricultural practices across the landscape. Drawing on cases from our own research, we demonstrate how the WEF Nexus perspective—by integrating non-point-source agricultural problems under well-defined energy issues—can highlight central beneficiaries of improved agricultural practice, where none may have existed otherwise.
14 Denby, K.; Movik, S.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2016. The 'Trickle Down' of IWRM: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa. Water Alternatives, 9(3):473-492.
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water allocation ; Water governance ; Water availability ; Legal aspects ; Water law ; Land reform ; Farmers ; Decentralization ; Equity ; Catchment areas ; Rivers ; Agriculture ; Case studies / South Africa / Mpumalanga Province / Limpopo Province / Inkomati Water Management Area
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047789)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/333-a9-3-6/file
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The historical legacy in South Africa of apartheid and the resulting discriminatory policies and power imbalances are critical to understanding how water is managed and allocated, and how people participate in designated water governance structures. The progressive post-apartheid National Water Act (NWA) is the principal legal instrument related to water governance which has broadly embraced the principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). This translation of IWRM into the South African context and, in particular, the integration of institutions related to land and water have faced many challenges due to the political nature of water and land reforms, and the tendency of governmental departments to work in silos. The paper explores the dynamics surrounding the implementation of IWRM in the Inkomati Water Management Area, and the degree of integration between the parallel land and water reform processes. It also looks at what these reforms mean to black farmers’ access to water for their sugar cane crops at the regional (basin) and local levels. The empirical material highlights the discrepancies between a progressive IWRM-influenced policy on paper and the actual realities on the ground. The paper argues that the decentralisation and integration aspects of IWRM in South Africa have somewhat failed to take off in the country and what 'integrated' actually entails is unclear. Furthermore, efforts to implement the NWA and IWRM in South Africa have been fraught with challenges in practice, because the progressive policy did not fully recognise the complex historical context, and the underlying inequalities in knowledge, power and resource access.
15 Movik, S.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2016. Emergence, interpretations and translations of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in South Africa. Water Alternatives, 9(3):456-472.
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water allocation ; Water law ; Legislation ; Institutions ; Decentralization / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047790)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/332-a9-3-7/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047790.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047790.pdf
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South Africa is often regarded to be at the forefront of water reform, based on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) ideas. This paper explores how the idea of IWRM emerged in South Africa, its key debates and interpretations and how it has been translated. It maps out the history, main events, key people, and implementation efforts through a combination of reviews of available documents and in-depth semi-structured interviews with key actors. While South Africa sought to draw on experiences from abroad when drawing up its new legislation towards the end of the 1990s, the seeds of IWRM were already present since the 1970s. What emerges is a picture of multiple efforts to get IWRM to 'work' in the South African context, but these efforts failed to take sufficient account of the South African history of deep structural inequalities, the legacy of the hydraulic mission, and the slowness of water reallocation to redress past injustices. The emphasis on institutional structures being aligned with hydrological boundaries has formed a major part of how IWRM has been interpreted and conceptualised, and it has turned out to become a protracted power struggle reflecting the tensions between centralised and decentralised management.
16 van Koppen, Barbara; Tarimo, A. K. P. R.; van Eeden, A.; Manzungu, E.; Sumuni, P. M. 2016. Winners and losers of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Tanzania. Water Alternatives, 9(3):588-607.
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water law ; Water rights ; Water policy ; Water use ; Water power ; River basin management ; Taxes ; Rural areas ; Suburban areas ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Poverty ; State intervention ; Multiple use ; Infrastructure ; Equity ; Economic aspects ; Case studies / Tanzania / Pangani River Basin / Rufiji River Basin / Wami-Ruvu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047791)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/328-a9-3-11/file
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This paper focuses on the application of the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Tanzania. It asks: how did IWRM affect the rural and fast-growing majority of smallholder farmers' access to water which contributes directly to poverty alleviation and employment creation in a country where poverty and joblessness are high? Around 1990, there were both a strong government-led infrastructure development agenda and IWRM ingredients in place, including cost-recovery of state services aligning with the Structural Adjustment Programmes, water management according to basin boundaries and the dormant colonial water rights (permits) system. After the 1990s, the World Bank and other donors promoted IWRM with a strong focus on hydroelectric power development, River Basin Water Boards, transformation of the water right system into a taxation tool, and assessment of environmental flows. These practices became formalised in the National Water Policy (2002) and in the Water Resources Management Act (2009). Activities in the name of IWRM came to be closely associated with the post-2008 surge in large-scale land and water deals. Analysing 25 years of IWRM, the paper identifies the processes and identities of the losers (smallholders and – at least partially – the government) and the winners (large-scale water users, including recent investors). We conclude that, overall, IWRM harmed smallholders' access to water and rendered them more vulnerable to poverty and unemployment.
17 Dukhovny, V. A.; Sokolov, V. I.; Ziganshina, D. R. 2016. The role of donors in addressing water problems in Central Asia. Irrigation and Drainage, 65(Supplement S1):79-85. (Special issue: Selected Papers of the ICID Gwangju Congress by Asian Authors). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.1913]
Research programmes ; Development aid ; Donors ; Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Funding ; International waters ; International cooperation ; International organizations ; World Bank / Central Asia / Aral Sea Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047803)
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This paper examines the role of donors in addressing a complex set of water-related challenges in Central Asia and draws some lessons with a view to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of development assistance in the region.
In the first years following independence, collaboration between the republics was strongly supported by development agencies under the leadership of the World Bank. This effort was marked by the establishment of the Interstate Fund of saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) and the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC ICWC) in Central Asia, preparation and signing of interstate agreements in 1993 and 1994, as well as development of a regional water strategy.
Despite significant donor contribution, the last several years have also demonstrated weaknesses in donors’ activities in the region, which is especially discouraging, given the increased tensions over competing uses of water for hydropower upstream and irrigation and ecosystem demands downstream. Among the main weaknesses are:
- lack of sound coordination
- avoidable involvement of international experts and ignorance of local capacity
- cut in support of regional water-related projects
Given the above, donors should rethink their development assistance policies in the region in order to encourage more active interaction between the countries for the benefit of people and the environment.
In the first years following independence, collaboration between the republics was strongly supported by development agencies under the leadership of the World Bank. This effort was marked by the establishment of the Interstate Fund of saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) and the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC ICWC) in Central Asia, preparation and signing of interstate agreements in 1993 and 1994, as well as development of a regional water strategy.
Despite significant donor contribution, the last several years have also demonstrated weaknesses in donors’ activities in the region, which is especially discouraging, given the increased tensions over competing uses of water for hydropower upstream and irrigation and ecosystem demands downstream. Among the main weaknesses are:
- lack of sound coordination
- avoidable involvement of international experts and ignorance of local capacity
- cut in support of regional water-related projects
Given the above, donors should rethink their development assistance policies in the region in order to encourage more active interaction between the countries for the benefit of people and the environment.
18 Alba, R.; Bolding, A.; Ducrot, R. 2016. The politics of water payments and stakeholder participation in the Limpopo River Basin, Mozambique. Water Alternatives, 9(3):569-587. (Special issue: Flows and Practices: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in southern Africa).
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water allocation ; Water users ; User charges ; Water rights ; Water policy ; Licences ; Stakeholders ; Participation ; Smallholders ; Financing ; Irrigation schemes ; River basins ; Private sector ; Agroindustry ; State intervention ; Political aspects ; Case studies / Mozambique / Limpopo River Basin / Chokwe Irrigation Scheme / Baixo-Limpopo Irrigation Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047805)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/334-a9-3-5/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047805.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047805.pdf
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Drawing from the experience of the Limpopo River Basin in Mozambique, the paper analyses the articulation of a water rights framework in the context of decentralised river basin governance and IWRM-inspired reforms. The nexus between financial autonomy, service provision, stakeholder participation and the resultant allocation of water within the river basin is explored by scrutinising the newly instituted system of water permits and payments. Three cases are examined: (1) parastatal agencies managing large perimeters of irrigated land; (2) large-scale commercial companies irrigating land; and (3) so-called focal points representing groups of smallholder irrigators. The three presented cases show that structural challenges, local geographies and power relations shape the final outcome of water reforms in relation to decentralised river basin management, stakeholders' participation and accountability. Rather than improving accountability to users and securing the financial basis for sustainable infrastructure operation and maintenance, the permit system in place reinforces existing inequalities.
19 Derman, B.; Prabhakaran, P. 2016. Reflections on the formulation and implementation of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in southern Africa from a gender perspective. Water Alternatives, 9(3):644-661. (Special issue: Flows and Practices: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in southern Africa).
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Equity ; Human rights ; Water use ; Water supply ; Water policy ; Water governance ; Conventions ; Treaties ; Institutions ; Case studies / Southern Africa / SADC countries / South Africa / Tanzania / Zimbabwe / Mozambique
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047807)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/325-a9-3-14/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047807.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047807.pdf
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While it is claimed that the founding principles of integrated water resources management are the Dublin Principles this does not appear to be the case for Principle No. 3, which underlines the importance of women in water provision, management and safeguarding. Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe are members of SADC and have signed the SADC Protocol on Women and other international human rights instruments. However, we do not see an incorporation of these instruments and other empowerment frameworks into water policies. We find that Principle No. 3 has been sidelined in the implementation of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM). In examining the gender practices in these four nations of Africa, gender equality remains distant from the concerns of the water sector. We enumerate many of the commonalities among these countries in how they are marginalising women’s access to, and use of, water.
20 van Eeden, A.; Mehta, L.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2016. Whose waters? large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania. Water Alternatives, 9(3):608-626. (Special issue: Flows and Practices: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in southern Africa).
Integrated management ; Water resources ; Water management ; Agricultural development ; Large scale systems ; Water acquisitions ; Water governance ; Water users ; Water rights ; Licences ; Development policies ; Legislation ; Land acquisitions ; Investment ; State intervention ; River basins ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Private enterprises ; Sugar industry ; Biofuels ; Case studies / Tanzania / Wami-Ruvu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047821)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/327-a9-3-12/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047821.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047821.pdf
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In Tanzania like in other parts of the global South, in the name of 'development' and 'poverty eradication' vast tracts of land have been earmarked by the government to be developed by investors for different commercial agricultural projects, giving rise to the contested land grab phenomenon. In parallel, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been promoted in the country and globally as the governance framework that seeks to manage water resources in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner. This article asks how IWRM manages the competing interests as well as the diverse priorities of both large and small water users in the midst of foreign direct investment. By focusing on two commercial sugar companies operating in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin in Tanzania and their impacts on the water and land rights of the surrounding villages, the article asks whether institutional and capacity weaknesses around IWRM implementation can be exploited by powerful actors that seek to meet their own interests, thus allowing water grabbing to take place. The paper thus highlights the power, interests and alliances of the various actors involved in the governance of water resources. By drawing on recent conceptual insights from the water grabbing literature, the empirical findings suggest that the IWRM framework indirectly and directly facilitates the phenomenon of water grabbing to take place in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin in Tanzania.
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