Session convener: IFAD
Session partners: ICID and FAO
Session chair: Rudolph Cleveringa. Senior Technical Adviser, IFAD

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Water commissions, water juries and irrigation cooperatives play important roles in their ability to help resolve disputes and manage water between local stakeholders, such as within farming cooperatives, cities, and industrial sectors. These local bodies are indispensable where there is competition for scarce water resources, where there is need to control illegal water withdrawals and wastewater disposal, which in turn compromise the resource and may instigate conflict. Water Users Associations (WUA) are key where official monitoring and data collection are weak.

• WUAs in MENA region: case studies from Morocco (Taourirt-Taforalt), Tunisia (Siliana and Zaghouan) and Egypt (Nubaria) [ – 1.98 MB]
• Water Users Associations in the NEN Region IFAD interventions and overall dynamics [ – 1.98 MB]
• Revitalizing Asia’s Irrigation: To sustainably meet tomorrow’s food needs [ – 6.2 MB]
• Water User’s Associations in the context of small holder agriculture [ – 2.74 MB]

• Participatory Irrigation Management: Understanding the Role of Cooperative Culture. International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) [ – 151 KB]

Date: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

09:00-09:15 Presentation of the Session

09:15-09:45  Performance of Water Users Associations

09:45-10:45 Water Cooperation in Practice

• Ethiopia. How PASIDP changed my life: the story of a WUA President in Tigray
• Bolivia. Cooperation between different irrigators’ associations within the watershed of Altiplano-Valles (Presentation)
• Green Water Credits.
• Spain. Participatory approaches in water projects. Can cooperation lead to improved performance in groundwater management?

11:15-12:45 Water Cooperation in Practice (continuation)

• Peru. The use of local funds allocation committees (CLAR) and concursos in water management (Presentation)
• Kenya. Mount Kenya East Pilot Project for Natural Resource Management, Kenya (Presentation)
• Guatemala (Presentation) , Madagascar, India. Scaling up micro-irrigation
• Integrated Water Resources Management and rural development in Guatemala

12:45-13:00 Wrap up and Take Away messages (Chairs)

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