Mainstreaming rural poor in water resources management: Preliminary lessons of a bottom-up WUA development approach in central Asia

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 56, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 261-276

  Yakubov, Murat ^a   Ul Hassan, Mehmood ^b  

^a Central Asia Sub Regional Office   (Uzbekistan)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Irrigation management transfer; Poverty alleviation; Rural livelihoods; Social mobilization and institutional development; Water users' associations

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247244634     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.293     Document Type: Article

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