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Irrigation Management by Participatory Approach in the Philippine: Lessons for Bangladesh
Md. Azizur Rahman
Abstract

Despite the fact that irrigation development and management under the participatory Irrigation management (PIM) approach has a long history in Philippine. However, the initiative of PIM has been experimented in Philippine since the late 1964’s. The PIM Approach has ever-since been implemented to adjust with small land holding condition. The results have been varying in the level of successes. There have been a number of irrigation schemes proved to be successful in the PIM implementation. Whatever, intervening from the top down approach always involved difficulties – too many implementing agencies; long delays caused by bureaucratic procurement procedures, compounding these administrative problems were more focus on irrigation infrastructure rather than on the participants. Further, the establishments of WUAs have been formally carried out in many irrigation schemes. In an effort to optimize the capacity of the WUAs to pursue the sustainable operation and management of irrigation schemes through PIM approach, this paper has been prepared based on secondary sources of various schemes of Philippine that has been successfully conducted by WUAs. It is expected that some of the PIM successful experiences presented in this papers are worth for comparative features in Bangladesh for various irrigation schemes that are having the similar characteristics.

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