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Post Doctoral Fellow in Political Ecology for IWMI-SEA, Vientiane

Irrigation services reforms in Southeast Asia IWMI-FAO workshop on Trends and transitions in Asian irrigation: What are the prospects for the future? 20 th January 2009 FAO-RAP, Bangkok 19 th to 21 st January 2009 By Diana Suhardiman.

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Post Doctoral Fellow in Political Ecology for IWMI-SEA, Vientiane

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  1. Irrigation services reforms in Southeast Asia IWMI-FAO workshop on Trends and transitions in Asian irrigation: What are the prospects for the future?20th January 2009FAO-RAP, Bangkok19th to 21st January 2009By Diana Suhardiman Post Doctoral Fellow in Political Ecology for IWMI-SEA, Vientiane

  2. Structure of the presentation IMT and infrastructure development paradigm Consensual policy discourse on IMT IMT policy outcome in Indonesia Lessons to be learned

  3. IMT policy is trapped in an infrastructure-oriented development paradigm

  4. Consensual discourse on IMT and the dominant causal argument in irrigation development

  5. The dominant causal argument in irrigation development: • Poor system performance due to rapid deterioration of irrigation physical infrastructure • Deferred maintenance as the problem in government-managed irrigation systems • The validity of this causal argument?

  6. IMT policy’s multi-faceted character and its ambiguous meaning • The way popular development concepts are combined into IMT

  7. The dilemmatic presentation of the role of the irrigation agency in IMT: both as incapable government agency and reform agent The paradoxical role and position of the irrigation agency in IMT

  8. IMT policy processes are presented as neutral and a-political In reality management transfer is characterized by power struggles

  9. The consensual discourse on IMT and the hegemonic tendency in irrigation policy formulation • IMT takes for granted farmers’ willingness to take over the agency’s role • IMT policy labels

  10. IMT policy labels : • Farmers as water users • Irrigation agency’s field staff as the agency • System management as system O&M

  11. IMT policy outcomes: • IMT and the cyclical relationship of codependency • IMT and FWUA bureaucratization

  12. Lessons to be learned: • New policy formulation and past trends • Rely on empirical evidence above assumption

  13. Thank you very much for your attention

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