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A Gender Performance Indicator for Irrigation

Concepts, Tools and Applications

By: Barbara Van Koppen,Barbara C. P. Koppen

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A Gender Performance Indicator for Irrigation

Concepts, Tools and Applications

By: Barbara Van Koppen,Barbara C. P. Koppen

Although gender issues are today a priority on the agendas of irrigation policy makers, interventionists, farm leaders and researchers, there is still a considerable gap between positive intentions and concrete action. An important but hitherto ignored reason for this is the lack of adequate generic concepts and tools that are policy-relevant and can accommodate the vast variation in irrigation contexts worldwide. The Gender Performance Indicator for Irrigation (GPII) aims to fill this gap. In any particular scheme, this tool diagnoses the gendered organization of farming and gender-based inclusion or exclusion in irrigation institutions. It informs irrigation agencies what they themselves can do for effective change-if necessary. The tool also identifies gender issues beyond a strict mandate of irrigation water provision. The Indicator was applied and tested in nine case studies in Africa and Asia. The research report presents the underlying concepts, methodological guidelines and selected applications of the GPII.

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Multiple-use water services to advance the millennium development goals

By: van Koppen, Barbara, Moriarty, P., Boelee, Eline

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Multiple-use water services to advance the millennium development goals

By: van Koppen, Barbara, Moriarty, P., Boelee, Eline

This research report presents the findings of the first phase of the action-research project "Models for implementing multiple-use water supply systems for enhanced land and water productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity." Multipleuse water services, or "mus" in short, is a participatory, integrated and poverty-reduction focused approach in poor rural and peri-urban areas, which takes people's multiple water needs as a starting point for providing integrated services, moving beyond the conventional sectoral barriers of the domestic and productive sectors.

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Mapping irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

By: Cai, Xueliang,Magidi, J.,Nhamo, Luxon,van Koppen, Barbara

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Mapping irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

By: Cai, Xueliang,Magidi, J.,Nhamo, Luxon,van Koppen, Barbara

This report summarizes the findings of a collaborative effort to map and assess irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study was conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the DAFF-supported ‘Revitalization of irrigation in South Africa’ project. Based on a combination of Landsat and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data, previous irrigated area mapping exercises carried out by DAFF and three-field ground truthing (GT) surveys, a total of 1.6 million hectares (Mha) of cropland were identified, with 262,000 ha actually irrigated in the 2015 winter season. The study also found that only 29% of all land equipped with center pivots was actually irrigated.

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

By: Cullis, J.,van Koppen, Barbara

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

By: Cullis, J.,van Koppen, Barbara

The present study explores the application of the Gini Coefficient, which has hitherto only been used for income and land distribution, to quantify the distribution of water resources. The tool is tested in the water-stressed Olifants Water Management Area, in South Africa. Using readily available information on water use registrations, water use estimates, and census data, two versions of the Gini Coefficient are calculated. The first measures the distribution of the allocation of direct water use in rural areas and was estimated at 0.96 in the study area. In other words, 99.5 percent of the rural households are entitled to useonly 5 percent of the available water. The second version calculates the distribution of the indirect benefits of water use in the form of direct employment. This is shown to have a Gini Coefficient of 0.64. Using the Gini Coefficient an assessment was also made of the impacts of different policy scenarios. It was found that by more than doubling the amount of water used by rural households from the current 225 cubic meters per household per annum (m3/hh/annum) to 610 m3/hh/annum, which would enable each household to meet its basic human needs of 50 litres/person/day and irrigate 1,000 square meters (m2), would reduce the Gini Coefficient significantly. Yet, this would only require the large-scale registered users to reduce their current irrigation water use entitlement by 6 percent or the largest ten users to reduce their use by 20 percent each.

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Reducing Poverty through Investments in Agricultural Water Management

Poverty and Gender Issues and Synthesis of Sub-Saharan Africa Case Study Reports

By: Van Koppen, Barbara,Namara, Regassa,Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina

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Reducing Poverty through Investments in Agricultural Water Management

Poverty and Gender Issues and Synthesis of Sub-Saharan Africa Case Study Reports

By: Van Koppen, Barbara,Namara, Regassa,Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina

The overall goal of the Collaborative Program on ‘Investments in Agricultural Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa’ is to contribute to broad-based sustainable poverty reduction and smallholder agricultural growth. The component on ‘Poverty considerations in investments in agricultural water management’ focuses in more detail on poverty and gender dimensions. It consists of two parts. The first part is thematic and elaborates poverty and gender issues emerging from the literature that complement the other components of the Collaborative Program. Part two is empirical. Acknowledging the lack of empirical data on poverty impacts of investments in agricultural water management, the Collaborative Program initiated case studies throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Eight case studies on ‘Agricultural Water Development for Poverty Reduction in Eastern and Southern Africa’, for which the field research was conducted in 2003/2004, were supported by IFAD (Peacock,2005). Further, the African Development Bank supported three case studies in West Africa in 2004, two by Kamara et al. (2004), and one by Babatunde Omilola (2005). Part two synthesizes the empirical findings of these case studies.

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Smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

By: van Koppen, Barbara,Nhamo, Luxon,Cai, Xueliang,Gabriel, M. J.,Sekgala, M.,Shikwambana, S.,Tshikolomo, K.,Nevhutanda, S.,Matlala, B.,Manyama, D.

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Smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

By: van Koppen, Barbara,Nhamo, Luxon,Cai, Xueliang,Gabriel, M. J.,Sekgala, M.,Shikwambana, S.,Tshikolomo, K.,Nevhutanda, S.,Matlala, B.,Manyama, D.

A survey of 76 public smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province was jointly conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa, and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the ‘Revitalization of Smallholder Irrigation in South Africa’ project. About one-third of those schemes was fully utilized; one-third partially utilized; and one-third not utilized in the winter of 2015; however, no single socioeconomic, physical, agronomic and marketing variable could explain these differences in utilization. Sale, mostly for informal markets, appeared the most important goal. Dilapidated infrastructure was the most important constraint cited by the farmers. The study recommends ways to overcome the build-neglect-rebuild syndrome, and to learn lessons from informal irrigation, which covers an area three to four times as large as public irrigation schemes in the province.

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Operationalising hybrid water law for historical justice

By: Mukuyu, Patience,van Koppen, Barbara,Jacobs-Mata, Inga

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Operationalising hybrid water law for historical justice

By: Mukuyu, Patience,van Koppen, Barbara,Jacobs-Mata, Inga

Final project report submitted to the Water Research Commission (WRC). Pretoria, South Africa: Water Research Commission (WRC).

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Malaria and Land Use

A Spatial and Temporal Risk Analysis in Southern Sri Lanka

By: Eveline Klinkenberg,Wim van der Hoek,Felix P. Amerasinghe,Gayathri Jayasinghe,Lal Mutuwatte,Dissanayake M. Gunawardena

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Malaria and Land Use

A Spatial and Temporal Risk Analysis in Southern Sri Lanka

By: Eveline Klinkenberg,Wim van der Hoek,Felix P. Amerasinghe,Gayathri Jayasinghe,Lal Mutuwatte,Dissanayake M. Gunawardena

The transmission of malaria in Sri Lanka is unstable; its incidence greatly fluctuates from year to year and exhibits important variations within a year. Identification of the underlying risk factors of malaria is important to target the limited resources for the most-effective control of the disease. This report presents the first results of a project on malaria risk mapping to investigate whether this tool could be utilized to forecast malaria epidemics. It documents the key malaria risk factors for the Uda Walawe region of Sri Lanka, where monthly malaria incidence data were available over a 10-year period. In the study, data on aggregate malaria-incidence rates, land-use and water-use patterns, socioeconomic features and malaria-control interventions were collected and analyzed in a geographical information system. Malaria cases were mapped at the smallest administrative level and relative risks for different variables were calculated employing multivariate analyses. The findings of the study call for malaria-control strategies that are readily adapted to different ecological and epidemiological settings.

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Urban Wastewater

A Valuable Resource for Agriculture : a Case Study from Haroonabad, Pakistan

By: Wim van der Hoek,Mehmood Ul Hassan,Jeroen H. J. Ensink,Sabiena Feenstra,Liqa Raschid-Sally,Sarfraz Munir,Rizwan Aslam,Nazim Ali,Raheela Hussain,Yutaka Matsuno

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Urban Wastewater

A Valuable Resource for Agriculture : a Case Study from Haroonabad, Pakistan

By: Wim van der Hoek,Mehmood Ul Hassan,Jeroen H. J. Ensink,Sabiena Feenstra,Liqa Raschid-Sally,Sarfraz Munir,Rizwan Aslam,Nazim Ali,Raheela Hussain,Yutaka Matsuno

Farming communities in water-scarce regions increasingly practice the use of urban wastewater in agriculture. Untreated urban wastewater is generally considered unacceptable for direct use because of potential health risks. However, in many parts of the world, poor farmers in peri-urban areas use untreated wastewater. This situation is considered likely to continue even in the foreseeable future due to the high investment cost associated with the installation of treatment facilities.

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Use of Untreated Wastewater in Peri-urban Agriculture in Pakistan

Risks and Opportunities

By: Jeroen H.J. Ensink,Wim van der Hoek,Yutaka Matsuno,Sarfraz Munir,M. Rizwan Aslam

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Use of Untreated Wastewater in Peri-urban Agriculture in Pakistan

Risks and Opportunities

By: Jeroen H.J. Ensink,Wim van der Hoek,Yutaka Matsuno,Sarfraz Munir,M. Rizwan Aslam

The practice of using untreated wastewater for irrigation is widespread but has been largely ignored because the norm has always been that wastewater should be treated before use. Increasing water scarcity, lack of money for treatment and a clear willingness by farmers to use untreated wastewater have led to an uncontrolled expansion of wastewater use. It is therefore important to better document the practice of irrigation with untreated wastewater in order to find out how it can be improved within the financial possibilities of very low-income countries.

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Multiple-use water services to advance the millennium development goals

By: van Koppen, Barbara, Moriarty, P., Boelee, Eline

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A Gender Performance Indicator for Irrigation

Concepts, Tools and Applications

By: Barbara Van Koppen,Barbara C. P. Koppen

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Concepts, Tools and Applications

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

By: Cullis, J.,van Koppen, Barbara

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Operationalising hybrid water law for historical justice

By: Mukuyu, Patience,van Koppen, Barbara,Jacobs-Mata, Inga

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By: Mukuyu, Patience,van Koppen, Barbara,Jacobs-Mata, Inga

Final project report submitted to the Water Research Commission (WRC). Pretoria, South Africa: Water Research Commission (WRC).

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Gender and irrigation in India: The Women's Irrigation Group of Jambar, South Gujarat

By: Barbara C. P. Koppen,van Koppen, B., Nagar, R. K., Vasavada, S.,Rashmi K. Nagar,Shilpa Vasavada

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Gender and irrigation in India: The Women's Irrigation Group of Jambar, South Gujarat

By: Barbara C. P. Koppen,van Koppen, B., Nagar, R. K., Vasavada, S.,Rashmi K. Nagar,Shilpa Vasavada

Documents a “best practice” – a successful gender-balanced irrigation intervention in which women were given control over an irrigation technology. The study evaluates the approach taken by the implementing NGO, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, in terms of its replicability in other areas where women share in farm activities and decision making.

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