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1 Kashaigili, J. J.; Kadigi, R. M. J.; Sokile, C. S.; Mahoo, H. F. 2002. Constraints and potential for efficient inter-sectoral water allocations in Tanzania. Unpublished report. 34p.
Water allocation ; River basin management ; Water demand ; Water supply ; Water policy ; Water users ; Water use / Tanzania
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6765 Record No: H040075)
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2 van Koppen, Barbara; Sokile, C. S.; Hatibu, N.; Lankford, B. A.; Mahoo, H.; Yanda, P.Z. 2004. Formal water rights in rural Tanzania: deepening the dichotomy? Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). vii, 26p. (IWMI Working Paper 071) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.258]
Water rights ; Water law ; Water scarcity ; Water use ; Water user associations ; Irrigation water ; Cost recovery / Tanzania / Upper Ruaha Catchment
(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.
3 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.
River basins ; Water stress ; Water resource management ; Water rights ; Water rates ; Water allocation / Tanzania / Rufiji Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G132 SOK Record No: H037510)
4 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.
Water resource management ; Institutions ; Villages ; Water rights ; Irrigation water ; Water user associations ; Conflict / Tanzania / Mkoji Sub Catchment
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 333.91 G100 VAN Record No: H038764)
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5 van Koppen, Barbara; Sokile, C. S.; Lankford, B. A.; Hatibu, N.; Mahoo, H.; Yanda, P. Z. 2007. Water rights and water fees in rural Tanzania. In Molle, Francois; Berkoff, J. (Eds.). Irrigation water pricing: the gap between theory and practice. Wallingford, UK: CABI. pp.143-164. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 4)
Water rights ; Water costs ; Pricing ; Price policy ; Cost recovery ; User charges ; Legislation ; Water user associations ; Water allocation / Tanzania / Upper Ruaha Catchment
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G000 MOL Record No: H040605)
6 Sokile, C. S.; Kashaigili, J. J.; Kadigi, R. M. J. 2003. Towards an integrated water resource management in Tanzania: the role of appropriate institutional framework in Rufiji Basin. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 28: 1015–1023.
Water resource management ; Institutions ; Water user associations ; Water rights ; Water law / Tanzania / Rufiji Basin / Usangu Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Record No: H041070)
Over the past 50 years, changes in the intersectoral water use in the Rufiji Basin have been enormous. A growing human population, migration and increasing demands in the basin have culminated this change. The basin, however, still lack an appropriate integrated management approach. This has resulted into inter- institutional conflicts, ineffectiveness, gaps in management imperatives and duplication of efforts. This paper reviews the existing institutional linkages identifies the gap and proposes an appropriate institutional framework which involve questions of institutional arrangements and the assignment of responsibilities among various levels of development, ensures stakeholders participation, accommodates adaptive change and remain self sustainable. The basic argument of this paper is that water management issue is both a question of developing stakeholders’ participation and transferring state’s competence to water user associations. Such an endeavour requires a complete and complex institutional framework, which would define clearly the role and rule of each stakeholder in water resource management. The paper further argues that; in Tanzania, the institutions that are involved in water management are loosely connected and lack basic coordination and are often at the periphery of the water management agenda––divorced from the water management programs; the predominance of isolated institutions locked up in narrowly defined activities with no interactive learning process will continue to hamper national aspirations to manage water; and that to change this situation will require innovative reforms in national institutions and institutional learning.
7 Sokile, C. S.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2004. Local water rights and local water user entities: the unsung heroines of water resource management in Tanzania. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 29(15-18):1349-1356. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2004.09.010]
Water resource management ; Institutions ; Water rights / Tanzania / Great Ruaha River catchment / Rufiji River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042980)
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When considering water management, formal institutions tend to overshadow the local informal ones although the latter guide day-to-day interactions on water use. Conversely, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has demonstrated a bias toward the formal state-based institutions for water management. A study was carried out to examine how local water rights and local informal institutional arrangements influence water management in the Great Ruaha River catchment in the Rufiji basin in Tanzania. Participatory appraisals were carried out, supplemented by focus group discussions, interviews, and a stakeholders workshop. It was found that local water rights, local water rotations and local water user groups are widely in use and are more influential than the formal water rights, water fees and water user associations (WUAs). Water allocation at the driest period depends on local informal relations among irrigators. More than 70% of water users surveyed choose to settle disputes over water via informal channels and the latter are more effective in resolving water conflicts and reconciling the antagonists compared to the formal routes. It was also found that although much emphasis and many resources have been expended in transforming local water rights and water related organisations to formal registered ones, the former have remained popular and water users feel more affiliated to local arrangements. The paper concludes that local informal water management can offer the best lessons for the formal management arrangements and should not be simply overlooked. Finally, the paper recommends that the formal and informal institutions should be amalgamated to bring forth a real Integrated Water Resource Management framework.
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