Collective Participation of Water Users in Irrigation Management: A Case From Nepal
The study examines the factors associated with the process of collective participation among the members of the water users group (WUG)in irrigation management in one of the government·managed irrigation projects in Nepal. Two hundred randomly selected respondents from 40 WUGs were interviewed...
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| Language: | English English |
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1992
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8761/1/FEM_1992_4_A.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/8761/ |
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| Summary: | The study examines the factors associated with the process
of collective participation among the members of the water
users group (WUG)in irrigation management in one of the
government·managed irrigation projects in Nepal.
Two hundred randomly selected respondents from 40 WUGs
were interviewed on a pre-tested schedule. Additional insights
and data were derived from official records, direct
observation, informal interviews with officials and key
informant farmers.
Level of participation among the members of the WUGs as
measured by their involvement in group decision making in four
major tasks of irrigation management and actual resource
committed (labour, cash and material) for the maintenance of
tertiary structures were found to be relatively low. It was
found that the way the WUGS had been structured and its existing leadership pattern could in part be attributable to
this state-of-affair.
Three sets of factors namely situational, structural and
interaction process were included and their relationships with
the level of participation in irrigation management examined in
the study.
The findings of the study indicate that while each of the
three groups of factors has its own merit in explaining the
process of collective participation in irrigation management,
there was greater explanatory power when all three sets of
factors were combined and their relationships examined. |
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