African Journal of
Agricultural Research

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Agric. Res.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1991-637X
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJAR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 6900

Full Length Research Paper

Polycentric irrigation water governance: Irrigation water users associations service delivery in Ketar subbasin, Ethiopia

Yohannes Geleta Sida
  • Yohannes Geleta Sida
  • College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
  • Google Scholar
Belay Simane
  • Belay Simane
  • College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
  • Google Scholar
Engidawork Assefa
  • Engidawork Assefa
  • College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
  • Google Scholar
Amare Haileslassie
  • Amare Haileslassie
  • International Water Management Institute (IWMI), East Africa Office, Ethiopia.
  • Google Scholar


  •  Received: 22 July 2022
  •  Accepted: 20 September 2022
  •  Published: 31 October 2022

References

Aarnoudse E, Closas A, Lefore N (2018). Water User Associations: A Review of Approaches and Alternative Management Options for Sub-Saharan Africa. 
Crossref

 

Akuriba AM, Haagsma R, Heerink N, Dittoh S (2018). Irrigation governance and performance?: the case of smallholder irrigated agriculture in northern Ghana pp. 1-29.

 
 

Atosina M, Haagsma R, Heerink N, Dittoh S (2020). Assessing governance of irrigation systems?: A view from below. World Development Perspectives P. 100197.
Crossref

 
 

Baldwin E, McCord P, Dell'Angelo J, Evan T (2018). Collective action in a polycentric water governance system. Environmental Policy and Governance 28(4):212-222.
Crossref

 
 

Bekele RD, Mekonnen D (2021). Local empowerment and irrigation devolution in Ethiopia. International Journal of Water Resources Development 00(00):1-27.
Crossref

 
 

Bruns B (2021). Polycentric solutions for groundwater governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Encouraging institutional artisanship in an extended ladder of participation. Water (Switzerland) 13(5).
Crossref

 
 

Cambaza C, Hoogesteger J, Veldwisch GJ (2020). Irrigation management transfer in sub-Saharan Africa?: an analysis of policy implementation across scales. Water International 45(1):3-19.
Crossref

 
 

Carpenter S, Baldwin E, Cole DH (2017). The polycentric turn: A case study of Kenya's evolving legal regime for irrigation waters. Natural Resources Journal 57(1):101-138.

 
 

de Bruin A, Cinderby S, Mbilinyi B, Mahoo H, Barron J (2012). Agricultural Water Management Scenarios in the Mkindo Watershed Wami Basin, Tanzania. Gates Open Research 3(439):439.

 
 

Deressa TT, Hassan RM, Ringler C, Alemu T, Yesuf M (2009). Determinants of farmers' choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. Global Environmental Change 19(2):248-255.
Crossref

 
 

Dirwai TL, Senzanje A, Mudhara M (2019). Water governance impacts on water adequacy in smallholder irrigation schemes in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. Water Policy 21(1):127-146.
Crossref

 
 

FAO (2006). World agriculture: towards 2030/2050 Prospects for food, nutrition, agriculture and major commodity groups. Fao, (June), 78.

 
 

Fufa D (2017). Technical Performance Evaluation of Ketar Medium Scale Irrigation Scheme, Southeast of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia 9(9):13-21.

 
 

Grigg NS (2011). Water governance: From ideals to effective strategies. Water International 36(7):799-811.
Crossref

 
 

Hamidov A, Thiel A, Zikos D (2015). Institutional design in transformation: A comparative study of local irrigation governance in Uzbekistan. Environmental Science and Policy 53:175-191.
Crossref

 
 

Huitema D, Mostert E, Egas W, Moellenkamp S, Pahl-Wostl C, Yalcin R (2009). Adaptive water governance: Assessing the institutional prescriptions of adaptive (co-)management from a governance perspective and defining a research agenda. Ecology and Societya 14(1). 
Crossref

 
 

Likert R (1932). A technique for the measurement of attitudes. Archives of Psychology. 140:5-55.

 
 

McGinnis MD (2013). Costs and Challenges of Polycentric Governance: An Equilibrium Concept and Examples from U.S. Health Care. SSRN Electronic Journal. 
Crossref

 
 

McGinnis MD, Walker JM (2010). Foundations of the Ostrom workshop: Institutional analysis, polycentricity, and self-governance of the commons. Public Choice 143(3):293-301.
Crossref

 
 

MoWIE EM of W I. and E. (2014). Irrigation Water Users' Associations Proclamation No. 841/2014". 2(27):27.

View

 
 

MOWR, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1999). Ethiopian water resources management policy. Addis Ababa.

 
 

Muchara B, Ortmann G, Wale E, Mudhara M (2014). Collective action and participation in irrigation water management?: A case study of Mooi River Irrigation Scheme in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Water SA 40(4):699-708.
Crossref

 
 

Mutambara S, Darkoh MBK, Atlhopheng JR (2016). A comparative review of water management sustainability challenges in smallholder irrigation schemes in Africa and Asia. Agricultural Water Management 171:63-72.
Crossref

 
 

Mutondo J, Farolfi S, Dinar A (2016). Water governance decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Between myth and reality. Springer. 
Crossref

 
 

ONRS (2007). Oromia Rural Land Use and Adminstration Proclamation No. 130/2007. (130).

View

 
 

ORNG (2017). A Proclamation to Determine Irrigation Water Users Associations of Oromia Regional State No: 204/2017 (p. 31). p. 31.
Crossref

 
 

Ostrom E (1990). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Instituions for Collective Action. In Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University.
Crossref

 
 

Ostrom E (2014). Beyond markets and states: Polycentric governance of complex economic systems. Nobel Lectures: Economic Sciences: 2006 - 2010. 100:171-176.
Crossref

 
 

Özerol G, Vinke-de Kruijf J, Brisbois MC, Flores CC, Deekshit P, Girard C, Knieper C, Mirnezami SJ, Ortega-Reig M, Ranjan P, Schröder NJ (2018). Comparative studies of water governance: A systematic review. Ecology and Society 23(4).
Crossref

 
 

Pahl-Wostl C, Gupta J, Petry D (2008). Governance and the Global Water System: A Theoretical Exploration. Global Governance 14(4):419-435.
Crossref

 
 

Richards N (2019). Water users associations in Tanzania: local governance for whom? Water 11(10):2178.
Crossref

 
 

Rogers P, Hall A (2003). Effective Water Governance. Stockholm: Global water partnership.

View

 
 

Vala KV, Saiyed F, Joshi DC (2014). Evaporative cooled storage structures: an Indian Scenario. Trends in post harvest Technology 2(3):22-32.

 
 

Veettil PC, Speelman S, Frija A, Buysse J, Van Huylenbroeck G (2011). Complementarity between water pricing, water rights and local water governance: A Bayesian analysis of choice behaviour of farmers in the Krishna river basin, India. Ecological Economics 70(10):1756-1766.
Crossref

 
 

World Bank Group (2016). Climate Change, Water, and the Economy. In Water Global Practice.

View

 
 

Yamane T (1967). Statistics, An Introductory Analysis, 2nd Ed., New York: Harper and Row.