IRRIGATION PERFORMANCE IN COMMUNITYMANAGED SCHEMES: ASSESSMENT USING COMPARATIVE INDICATORS AND UTILITY ANALYSIS

摘要

Community-managed irrigation systems are operated, managed and maintained by farmersrnthemselves. Management activities by farmers include water diversion, conveyance,rnscheduling of water delivery, maintenance of infrastructure, sanctions for misbehaving, etc.rnThese activities are in many cases carried out by institutions such as water users’ associations.rnThese schemes play significant role in addressing food security problems, particularly in leastrndeveloped nations; and in most cases they are small to medium scale schemes demandingrnlower investment and operational costs thereby serving large number of beneficiaries. Therernhave been significant investments on community-managed irrigation schemes in Ethiopia.rnThough they play a key role, these schemes suffer from poor water management and lowrnwater productivity problems.rnThis research is carried out at two community-managed irrigation schemes called Golgotarnand Wedecha located in central Ethiopia. The research aims to compare the performancernof these two schemes using external comparative indicators and to find out the internalrnmanagement practices which led to specific level of performance. Three groups ofrnbenchmarking (comparative) indicators have been used and fuzzy set concept has beenrnapplied to analyze farmers’ utility of irrigation service. Golgota scheme has a higher level of.