This evaluation seeks to inform the World Bank’s efforts to support client countries to deliver sustainable irrigation and drainage services and achieve development impacts. The results of this evaluation...
The use of irrigation in the agricultural sector, when combined appropriately with other inputs, has been key to increasing the productivity of agricultural production around the world - a vital factor...
This is a handbook designed to guide governments, public authorities and other interested stakeholders in the process of designing and tendering sustainable Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangements...
In this issue: trends: 10 years of private-sector participation in water; interview: Mozambique's 'industry behind the tap'; and feature: irrigating Brazil's semi-arid northeast.
This report describes the results of a mission to support the Government of Malawi in conceiving viable Public Private Partnership (PPP) models for financially sustainable irrigation development and management...
Irrigation has been vital to agricultural gains in the last half century. But demand for food continues to rise as the world's population increases and economic progress allows more people to eat better...
A new type of irrigation project, designed for the West Delta region of the Arab Republic of Egypt, promises to usher in an era of cost recovery and sustainable operation and maintenance. The project...
The objective of this paper is to identify the possible role and opportunities for the private sector to participate with governments and farmers in developing and managing irrigation and drainage (I&D)...
The Middle East and North Africa (MNA) Region is composed of countries which share similar types of agro-climate conditions. This area is the most water scarce region in the world and the water stress...