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Global corruption report 2008: corruption in the water sector
Transparency International, 2008Divided into three parts, this collaborative work looks at the varied challenges brought about as a result of corruption in the water sector. It also looks at recent research conducted and provides an overview of the water sector corruption challenges in country profiles across the globe.DocumentWhere community-based water resource management has gone too far: poverty and disempowerment in southern Madagascar
Conservation and Society, 2007Madagascar has struggled with the question of decentralisation for more than three decades. Since coming to power in 2002, President Ravalomanana has both reformed and accelerated this process, granting new roles and responsibilities to regional and community leadership.DocumentHow the water flows: a typology of irrigation systems in Afghanistan
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008This paper develops and presents a typology of irrigation systems in Afghanistan. The report is intended to enhance knowledge of irrigation methods and management with the aim of improving system performance and productivity.DocumentRapid Basin Assessment: Understanding the issues and formulating a response basin
Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2008Many river basins in developing countries are experiencing water challenges – declining dry season river flows and groundwater mining, inequitable access to water resources, water quality deterioration, degradation of aquatic ecosystems and low water productivity.OrganisationIntegrated Water Resource Management
The Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) website provides resources, documents and guidelines relating to the IWRM programme, which was initiated in 2000 by the South African Department of WatDocumentTackling a global crisis: International Year of Sanitation 2008
UN-Water, 2008The UN General assembly declared 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation (IYS). The IYS provides the global community with an opportunity to raise awareness and accelerate actions for the achievement of the sanitation Millennium Development Goals through a variety of actions and interventions. This document presents an overview of the key issues and messages of the IYS.OrganisationUN-Water
UN-Water was endorsed as the new official United Nations mechanism to follow-up the water-related decisions reached at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and the Millennium Development GDocumentMaking the most of scarcity: accountability for better water management results in the Middle East and North Africa
World Bank, 2008Part of a series of development reports, this paper highlights the key challenges facing the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA). In particular, it aims to show how water is integrated into the wider economic policies of the countries of the region and for that reason, it brings water issues to non-water specialists, addressing a multi-sectoral audience.DocumentLand degradation assessment and prevention: selected case studies from the ESCWA region
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, 2007This report looks at possible ways for policy-makers and decision-takers to combat and/or prevent land degradation in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) region, both generally and specifically in the following countries: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).DocumentApproaches to rural poverty alleviation in developing Asia: role of water resources
Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2008Focusing on water resources and irrigation, this paper documents a talk by Michael Lipton exploring approaches to poverty alleviation in developing Asia. The talk discusses the findings of a recent paper ‘Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia: poverty in irrigated agriculture - realities, issues, and options with guidelines’.Pages