Irrigation management turnover in the Philippines: strategy of the National Irrigation Administration
1994
Wijayaratne, C.M. | Vermillion, D.L. (International Irrigation Management Inst., Colombo (Sri Lanka))
The Philippines is one of the earlier developing countries to begin the process of management transfer. The Philippine experience has much to offer to help answer the questions of: 1. How can farmers be organized and motivated to take over management of irrigation, particularly if this involves an increase in cost to the farmers? 2. Should the process be gradual (allowing time for capable institutions to evolve) or should it be abrupt (in order to perhaps send a clearer message to farmers and civil servants)?, and 3. What changes are necessasry in the government agency responsible for irrigation so that its own staff will support the process and the agency change to a new and appropriate role in the future? The move toward making the irrigation agency largely financially autonomous; the considerable effort placed upon organizing and training farmers; the gradual and flexible nature of negotiating involved; the legal status of irrigator associations; the extensive use of negotiation between the agency and individual irrigator associations; the changes made in NIA itself and the extent to which farmers have taken over management for irrigation and often improved management performance all make for a distinctive experience worthy of our careful examiniation.
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