Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Water Management Projects : Better Tools for Better Results

Increasing agricultural production is necessary to feed growing populations, raise the incomes of poor farmers, and boost national export revenues. But in poor, water-scarce areas of the world, it is impossible to raise production without first fin...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CAPACITY BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY DAMS DRAINAGE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS GENDER GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPROVEMENTS IRRIGATION LOGICAL FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS M&AMP E DESIGN MANAGEMENT OF WATER PROJECT COMPLETION PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT OBJECTIVES RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT STAKEHOLDERS SUPERVISION SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WATER CONSERVATION WATER MANAGEMENT WATER RESOURCES WATER SECTOR WATER USE WATER USERS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/10388112/monitoring-evaluating-agricultural-water-management-projects-better-tools-better-results http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11726

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spelling	okr-10986-117262021-04-23T14:02:57Z Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Water Management Projects : Better Tools for Better Results World Bank AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CAPACITY BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY DAMS DRAINAGE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS GENDER GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPROVEMENTS IRRIGATION LOGICAL FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS M&AMP E DESIGN MANAGEMENT OF WATER PROJECT COMPLETION PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT OBJECTIVES RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT STAKEHOLDERS SUPERVISION SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WATER CONSERVATION WATER MANAGEMENT WATER RESOURCES WATER SECTOR WATER USE WATER USERS Increasing agricultural production is necessary to feed growing populations, raise the incomes of poor farmers, and boost national export revenues. But in poor, water-scarce areas of the world, it is impossible to raise production without first finding ways to get more out of limited supplies of water, the ultimate scarce resource. Increasing the efficiency with which water is used is one of the chief goals of agricultural water management (AWM). Continual improvements in the efficiency of water use depend on close monitoring and careful evaluation. But despite the scale and scope of AWM projects around the world, and their criticality to global efforts to reduce rural poverty and increase food security, the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of AWM projects need considerable improvement. The report stressed the need for greater emphasis on outcomes and impact measurement in project design. It also concluded that the effective implementation of projects was routinely compromised by inadequate supervision. M&E is strongest when there is a participatory quality to data collection and evaluation, so that stakeholders are invested in the project's successful implementation and aware of its successes and failures. 2012-08-13T15:50:58Z 2012-08-13T15:50:58Z 2009-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/10388112/monitoring-evaluating-agricultural-water-management-projects-better-tools-better-results http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11726 English Water P-Notes; No. 34 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research
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topic	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CAPACITY BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY DAMS DRAINAGE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS GENDER GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPROVEMENTS IRRIGATION LOGICAL FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS M&AMP E DESIGN MANAGEMENT OF WATER PROJECT COMPLETION PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT OBJECTIVES RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT STAKEHOLDERS SUPERVISION SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WATER CONSERVATION WATER MANAGEMENT WATER RESOURCES WATER SECTOR WATER USE WATER USERS
spellingShingle	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CAPACITY BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY DAMS DRAINAGE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS GENDER GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPROVEMENTS IRRIGATION LOGICAL FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS M&AMP E DESIGN MANAGEMENT OF WATER PROJECT COMPLETION PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT OBJECTIVES RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT STAKEHOLDERS SUPERVISION SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WATER CONSERVATION WATER MANAGEMENT WATER RESOURCES WATER SECTOR WATER USE WATER USERS World Bank Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Water Management Projects : Better Tools for Better Results
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description	Increasing agricultural production is necessary to feed growing populations, raise the incomes of poor farmers, and boost national export revenues. But in poor, water-scarce areas of the world, it is impossible to raise production without first finding ways to get more out of limited supplies of water, the ultimate scarce resource. Increasing the efficiency with which water is used is one of the chief goals of agricultural water management (AWM). Continual improvements in the efficiency of water use depend on close monitoring and careful evaluation. But despite the scale and scope of AWM projects around the world, and their criticality to global efforts to reduce rural poverty and increase food security, the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of AWM projects need considerable improvement. The report stressed the need for greater emphasis on outcomes and impact measurement in project design. It also concluded that the effective implementation of projects was routinely compromised by inadequate supervision. M&E is strongest when there is a participatory quality to data collection and evaluation, so that stakeholders are invested in the project's successful implementation and aware of its successes and failures.
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title	Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Water Management Projects : Better Tools for Better Results
title_short	Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Water Management Projects : Better Tools for Better Results
title_full	Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Water Management Projects : Better Tools for Better Results
title_fullStr	Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Water Management Projects : Better Tools for Better Results
title_full_unstemmed	Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Water Management Projects : Better Tools for Better Results
title_sort	monitoring and evaluating agricultural water management projects : better tools for better results
publisher	Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/10388112/monitoring-evaluating-agricultural-water-management-projects-better-tools-better-results http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11726
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