A gender performance indicator for irrigation: Concepts, tools and applications

Gender / Women / Irrigation management / Water management / Policy / Decision making / Performance evaluation / Indicators / Irrigated farming / Farming systems / Case studies / Water users' associations / Leadership

Guidelines for local-level integrated water resource management: based on experiences from the SADC IWRM demonstration projects in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia

Water resource management / Guidelines / Multiple use / Participatory management / Community involvement / Malawi / Mozambique / Namibia / Swaziland / Zambia

Capacity Building for Lavumisa Irrigation Development Project: process documentation

Water resource management / Multiple use / Project planning / Project management / Stakeholders / Agricultural cooperatives / Participatory management / Sugarcane / Irrigated farming / Water supply / Drinking water / Sanitation / Swaziland / Maplotini / Lavumisa Irrigation Development Project

Coping with Extreme Events: Institutional Flocking

Recent measurements in the North Atlantic confirm that the thermohaline circulation driving the Gulf Stream has come to a stand. Oceanographic monitoring over the last 50 years already showed that the circulation was weakening. Under the influence of the large inflow of melting water in Northern Atlantic waters during last summer, it has now virtually stopped. Consequently, the KNMI and the RIVM estimate the average . In this essay we will explore how such a new risk profile affects the distribution of risks among societal groups, and the way in which governing institutions need to adapt in order to be prepared for situations of rapid but unknown change. The next section will first introduce an analytical perspective, building upon the Risk Society thesis and a proposed model of ‘institutional flocking’.temperature to decrease by 3°C in the next 15 years

Applying the Gini Coefficient to measure inequality of water use in the Olifants River water management area, South Africa

River basin management / Water stress / Water use / Indicators / Households / Rural areas / Irrigation programs / South Africa / Olifants River

Improved livelihoods in lower Limpopo: process documentation

Water resource management / Project planning / Project management / Participatory management / Community involvement / Irrigation schemes / Pumps / Dams / Canals / Mozambique / Lower Limpopo River Basin / Ndonga

IWRM and Rural Livelihood Project in Dzimphutsi: process documentation

Water resource management / Multiple use / Project planning / Project management / Participatory management / Community involvement / Dams / Irrigation schemes / Irrigated farming / Fish ponds / Livestock / Domestic water / Villages / Water scarcity / Institution building / Water users / Impact assessment / Malawi / Dzimphutsi Village / Mtendere Irrigation Scheme / Nkudzi River

Irrigation, gender and poverty: overview of issues and options

Irrigated farmingLaborPovertyFarming systemsWomenFarmersIncomeHouseholdsGender

Gender in lift irrigation schemes in East Gujarat, India

Irrigation management / Participatory management / Women in development / Woman's status / Gender / Irrigated farming / Irrigation programs / Water lifting / Communal irrigation systems / Cooperatives / Legal aspects / Decision making / Villages

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

River basinsWater stressWater resource managementWater rightsWater ratesWater allocation