Những nỗ lực gần đây để cải thiện hiệu suất thủy lợi ở châu Á đã đến một mức độ lớn tập trung vào quản trị và các vấn đề thể chế thông qua thủy lợi có sự tham gia quản lý và chuyển giao quản lý thủy lợi. Ngoài mục tiêu cải thiện tài chính cho các hoạt động và duy trì nhờ hệ thống cho nông dân ' đóng góp, những cải cách này cũng dự kiến sẽ nâng cao hiệu quả và năng suất của hệ thống. Quản lý thủy lợi có sự tham gia, cùng với nhu cầu quản lý, thường là. | Vietnam National Commission On Large Dams PERFORMANCE OF IRRIGATION AND PARTICIPATORY IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM FAO S IRRIGATION MODERNIZATION PROGRAM IN ASIA Thierry Facon 1 Rural paysages in Vietnam ABSTRACT Recent efforts to improve irrigation performance in Asia have to a large extent concentrated on governance and institutional issues through participatory irrigation management and irrigation management transfer. Beyond the objective of improving financing of operation and maintenance of the systems thanks to farmers contribution these reforms were also expected to improve the efficiency and productivity of the systems. Participatory irrigation management together with demand management is often the main measure recommended in integrated water resources management plans to improve productivity and efficiency of irrigation. A recent series of appraisals of large and medium-scale irrigation systems by FAO in Asia with a Rapid Appraisal Procedure suggests that participatory irrigation management has largely failed to deliver on all these major objectives. Water users associations created are weak and have little influence on major management decisions and water delivery while chaos - the difference between actual and stated management and operation - is not reduced. On-going efforts in a number of countries are essentially based on the same models and are likely to produce the same outcomes. These disappointing results have led reform promoters to advocate deeper reform on the ground that these disappointing results were due to incomplete reform. This paper argues that unless significant results are achieved in improvement of service delivery to farmers and water users associations and reduction of chaos Senior Water Management Officer Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 30 Phra Athit Road Bangkok 10200 Thailand Vietnam National Commission On Large Dams institutional reform will continue to .
