Abstract
AbstractThe data described in this paper were collected from four jurisdictions in south Asia, Assam and Bihar in India and Punjab and Sindh in Pakistan. The data were collected from farmer households involved in surface water irrigation with the aim of understanding the merits of participatory irrigation management (PIM) in different settings in south Asia. The data were collected using four structured survey instruments, which comprised three paper-based surveys and one online survey collected via tablets. This data can be used by researchers to empirically analyze: overall institutional performance and its relationship to agro-economic variables; drivers of compliance; gender differences and their impact on participation in water groups and perceptions of performance; preferred charging regimes and broader institutional arrangements for managing water at the local level. These data are unique, having been collected simultaneously across the four jurisdictions.
Funder
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Library and Information Sciences,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Computer Science Applications,Education,Information Systems,Statistics and Probability
Reference19 articles.
1. Groenfeldt, D. & Svendsen, M. Case Studies in Participatory Irrigation Management (World Bank Institute, 2000).
2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Modernization of Irrigation Schemes: Past Experiences and Future Options (FAO, 2007).
3. Parthasarathy, R. Participatory irrigation management programme in Gujarat: Institutional and financial issues. Economic and Political Weekly 35, 3147–3154 (2000).
4. Senanayake, N., Mukherji, A. & Giordano, M. Re-visiting what we know about irrigation management transfer: A review of the evidence. Agric. Water Manag. 149, 175–186 (2015).
5. Vermillion, D. Impacts of Irrigation Management Transfer: A Review of the Evidence; International Water Management Institute https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/ (1997).