Improving Performance of Irrigation Bureaucracies: Suggestions for Systematic Analysis and Agency Reorientation

摘要

To date, the increasing interest of researchers in the social and institutional aspects of irrigation management has focused on farmer groups to the relative neglect of the management role of government bureaucracies. The report explores ways of enhancing the effectiveness of government agencies including factors affecting the performance of an irrigation bureaucracy, such as irrigation management structures; strategies for improving bureaucratic performance through: better management structure and style; and the reorganization of irrigation agencies; related observations on: bureaucratic culture in irrigation management; problem-solving methodologies; and organization theory on irrigation bureaucracies in Africa. Bureaucratic performance should be assessed with regard to concrete objectives and environmental conditions - not abstract organizational standards.