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Empowering Poor Communities through Decentralized Decision Making : The Vietnam Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project

World Bank - 2012

Vietnam made remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the 1990s. Poverty rates decreased from 58% to 37% between … administration in Vietnam. Program 135 was established in 1998 to provide resources to more than 1,700 of the poorest communes for …

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Making a Large Irrigation Scheme Work : A Case Study from Mali

World Bank - 2012

Located in the heart of Mali, the Office du Niger (ON) is one of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes in Sub … public irrigation systems into financially sustainable operations. …

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Securing Water for Agriculture : A Guide to Investment Decisions

World Bank - 2012

water. Agricultural water management (AWM) encompasses irrigation on both a large and small scale, drainage of irrigated and … environmentally responsible resource use. At the same time, irrigation schemes pose a financial challenge: to recover costs at a rate …

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Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Water Management Projects : Better Tools for Better Results

World Bank - 2012

Increasing agricultural production is necessary to feed growing populations, raise the incomes of poor farmers, and boost national export revenues. But in poor, water-scarce areas of the world, it is impossible to raise production without first finding ways to get more out of limited supplies of...

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Improving Water Management in Rainfed Agriculture : Issues and Options in Water-Constrained Production Systems

World Bank - 2013

Due to climate change and increasing food prices, emphasis needs to be placed on addressing water management as a key determinant for agricultural production and productivity. However, governments and donors have tended to pay relatively little attention to this area, and investments remain low....

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Methodology for Ranking Irrigation Infrastructure Investment Projects

World Bank - 2013

The Government of Uzbekistan is aware that the irrigation and drainage infrastructure constructed under the Former … to the twin problems of how to approach the rehabilitation of the irrigation and drainage sub-sector and which of the …

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Review of World Bank Engagement in the Irrigation and Drainage Sector in Azerbaijan

World Bank - 2013

The sector review includes seven chapters and one annex. This first chapter is an overview of agriculture, irrigation … for irrigation and drainage within its portfolio of investments, from the time of its 2004 Strategy until the present. It … for irrigation and drainage in Azerbaijan, including a description of key parameters and changes; a description of rising …

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Syria : Irrigation Sector Report

World Bank - 2013

The report's objective is to analyze key issues and constraints facing the sector, and propose a set of recommendations and possible areas of support by the World BankHowever, several data gaps exist. Many technical estimates are thus preliminary and incorporate a high degree of uncertainty due...

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Prospects for Irrigated Agriculture : Whether Irrigated Area and Irrigation Water Must Increase to Meet Food Needs in the Future

World Bank - 2013

This report derives from the importance of water for irrigation to the question, how will additional food be produced … a partial picture of supply and demand for food supply and irrigation-water by 2025 and 2030. The World Bank initiated a …

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Pakistan - Public Expenditure Management : Accelerated Development of Water Resources and Irrigated Agriculture

World Bank - 2013

This report focuses principally on three key dimensions of better public expenditure management in Pakistan. First, it is paramount to continue financial discipline and reduce the overall size of the public sector deficit, including the sizable losses of public enterprises. The modest progress...

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