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Training program on community engagement on small-scale irrigation interventions

In 2009-2012, IWMI conducted a study for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on the performance of their agricultural water management interventions across five countries in Africa and Asia: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Weak community engagement was found to severely hinder the effectiveness of interventions in all countries. An original training curriculum was developed for local project managers, social mobilisers, irrigation engineers and government extension officers, based on research findings, to improve community engagement in the particular case of agricultural water management interventions. This video presents the main innovations of this curriculum, illustrated by the [...]

More rice for less outlay: fact or fiction?

Researchers from the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program investigated the impact of SRI practices in India, and in a recently published report Impact of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI): analysis of SRI practices in 13 states of India they suggested…