Diversity in Forms of Participation

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1568
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Sengupta, Nirmal
Conference:	Participation, People and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Dynamics of Natural Resource System
Location:	Nepal
Conf. Date:	March 17-20, 1996
Date:	1996
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1568
Sector:	Social Organization Water Resource & Irrigation
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Subject(s):	institutions participatory management farmer-managed irrigation diversity irrigation norms rules anthropology Ostrom, Elinor Workshop
Abstract:	"Interest in participatory management has becomes almost universal. However, the way the programmes are designed leave much room for improvement. Primarily because it reduces costs (or increases benefits by efficient management) irrigation departments now consider user participation as a desirable management option. Transaction cost in management of a common pool resource like water is high. It is uneconomic to have bureaucratic management. But the way participatory programmes are designed often make them uneconomic for the farmers even though the programme designers believe otherwise."

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