Decentralized Managment of Irrigation Areas in the Sahel : Water User Associations in the Senegal River Valley
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Publication Title | Decentralized Managment of Irrigation Areas in the Sahel : Water User Associations in the Senegal River Valley |
Publication Type | Issue Note of the 2006 Human Development Report
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Author(s) | Oumar Sylla
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Publication Date | 2006
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Summary
The objectives of this case study on Water User Associations in the Senegal River Valley are:
- To measure the development of the responsibilities devolved to the Water User Associations in managing agricultural water schemes;
- To highlight the constraints on the democratic and egalitarian functioning of Water User Associations;
- To assess the role of NGOs in reinforcing the autonomy and capacities of producers’ groups. Following the State’s example, NGOs have always invested in irrigated farming in the Senegal River Valley;
- To highlight the paradoxes in Senegalese State policies in terms of promoting irrigated farming, torn between a desire to maintain the family smallholdings characterizing the Water User Associations and a clear intention to promote agribusiness, which is not inconsequential for the former.
This study draws substantially on the author’s field work in Senegal carried out in July 2005
in connection with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and
FAO joint project on links between rights of access to water and land in the Sahel countries. It
has also been very much enriched by the grey literature on current trends in irrigated farming
in the Sahel.
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See also
HDR 2006 - Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis
