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1 Korten, F. F.. 1982. Building national capacity to develop water users' associations: Experiences from the Philippines. Washington, DC, USA: Agricultural and Rural Development Department, World Bank. v, 65 p. (World Bank staff working paper no. 528)
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: 631.7.3 G732 KOR Record No: H078)
Over a five year period the National Irrigation administration (NIA) of the Philippines has been building its capacity to develop water users' associations on small scale irrigation systems. The NIA approach is to develop a water users' association prior to construction of the physical system and then to involve association members fully in the planning and construction of the system. Implementing this participatory approach has required a wide variety of changes in the agency's policies, procedures, and personnel. The paper details the changes that have been made within the agency, examines the nature of the learning process which has led to these changes, and discusses the implications for donor support of other small scale irrigation programs and more generally for programs involving village level work.
2 Bagadion, B. U.; Korten, F. F.. 1979. Government assistance to communal irrigation in the Philippines: Facts, history and current issues. Philippine Agricultural Engineering Journal, 10(2):5-9.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1409 Record No: H01362)
3 Korten, F. F.. 1989. Making research relevant to action: A social learning perspective. In IIMI; Nepal. Ministry of Water Resources, Water and Energy Commission Secretariat, Public intervention in farmer managed irrigation systems. Digana Village, Sri Lanka: IIMI. pp.293-306.
Irrigation management ; Farmer managed irrigation systems ; Research ; Policy / Philippines / Indonesia
(Location: IWMI-India Call no: IIMI 631.7.3 G000 IIM Record No: H001405)
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Research and implementors alike often experience frustration in trying to make practical use of research findings. This paper explains the impasse by distinguishing between the macro and micro-policy arenas and between the policy analysis and social learning research perspectives. Researchers are generally most familiar with the policy analysis perspective which is suited to the macro-policy arena. But many issues related to improving an action program fall into the micro-policy arena. To address these issues a shift to the social learning perspective is needed which requires new types of research and new roles for researches. Many of the key issues related to public intervention in farmer managed irrigation fall into the micro-policy arena. Types of research and researcher roles relevant to a social learning process are cited from experience in improving assistance to farmer managed irrigation in the Philippines and Indonesia. Development programs of today are reaching an ever wider spectrum of people in ever more varied ways. As program implementors struggle with understanding how to shape programs that will actually be helpful to diverse and dispersed peoples, they are increasingly turning to researchers for help. And researchers, eager to contribute to the development process, are increasingly aiming their research efforts at improving action programs.
4 Korten, F. F.; Siy, R. (Eds.) 1988. Transforming a bureaucracy: The experience of the Philippine National Irrigation Administration. West Hartford, CT, USA: Kumarian Press. xix, 175p.
Bureaucracy ; Irrigation ; Farmer participation ; Governmental interrelations ; Policy ; Irrigation programs ; Case studies ; Developing countries / Philippines
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7 G732 KOR Record No: H05725)
5 Korten, F. F.. 1982. Developing social capacity for irrigation. Paper prepared for the Panel on Social Development Management: Review and State-of-the Art at the 25th Anniversary World Conference of the Society for International Development, Baltimore, Maryland, 18 - 22 July 1982. 10p.
Irrigation management ; Farmer participation ; Water user associations ; Social development ; Farmer-agency interactions ; Bureaucracy
(Location: IWMI-SA Call no: P 271 Record No: H04993)
6 Korten, F. F.. 1981. Stimulating community participation obstacles and options at agency, community and societal level. Rural Development Participation Review, 11(3):1-6.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1136 Record No: H04998)
7 Bagadion, B. U.; Korten, F. F.. 1979. Developing viable irrigators' associations: Lessons from small scale irrigation development in the Philippines. 24p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1951 Record No: H08471)
8 Bagadion, B. U.; Korten, F. F.. 1991. Developing irrigators' organizations: A learning process approach. In Cernea, M. M. (Ed.) 2 ed. Putting people first: Sociological variables in rural development. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. pp.73-112.
Rural development ; Social aspects ; Agricultural development ; Development projects ; Farmer-agency interactions ; Farmer participation
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 303.4 G000 CER Record No: H011563)
9 Bagadion, B. U.; Korten, F. F.. 1979. Developing viable irrigators' associations: Lessons from small scale irrigation development in the Philippines. In IRRI. Irrigation and Water Management Department, Background papers on social, economic, communication and institutional issues in irrigation water management. Vol.3. 15p.
Farmers' associations ; Water user associations ; Small scale systems ; Communal irrigation systems / Philippines
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 3283 Record No: H013817)
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