With water being increasingly considered both a constraint to development and an opportunity for investments that can reduce poverty, the Executive Board, when approving the 2013 evaluation work programme at its December 2012 session, requested the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD (IOE) to prepare an evaluation synthesis on water conservation and management. Since water is crucial to the natural environments, economies and livelihoods of IFAD-supported rural communities and target groups, ensuring access to water for all will be one of the main challenges to be met in the years ahead. Water plays an important role (directly and indirectly) in IFAD’s current and previous (2007-2010) strategic frameworks and in the Eighth and Ninth Replenishments of IFAD's Resources. 1 While IFAD does not have a policy on water, four of its other policies make significant references to water. IFAD is intensively engaged in policy dialogue on water issues at the international, regional and national levels as it seeks to shape policies on food security and water resources management. The widespread adoption of participatory irrigation management practices and the establishment of water users’ associations (WUA) testify to IFAD’s singular success in policy shaping and institutional development related to the water sector in the countries it works in.
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Publisher:
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Progress Report
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Keywords:
WATER, WATER CONSERVATION, WATER MANAGEMENT, RURAL WATER SUPPLY, POVERTY, RURAL POVERTY, NATURAL RESOURCES, INVESTMENTS, AGRICULTURE, SANITATION, FINANCIAL SERVICES, WATER RESOURCES, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES, IRRIGATION, IRRIGATION SERVICES, ECOSYSTEM, BIODIVERSITY, SOILS, POLICY MAKING, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, CAPACITY BUILDING, CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT, WATER SCARCITY
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Thematic Group:
IFAD
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International Fund for Agricultural Development
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03.05.00
- Water
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