Capacity development in irrigation and drainage : issues, challenges and the way ahead : proceedings of the International Workshop held on 16 September 2003 during the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage Fifty-fourth International Executive Council Meeting, Montpellier, France / organized by FAO Land and Water Development Division and the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage.

" ... a one-day workshop, Capacity Building in Irrigation, Drainage and Flood Control ..."--Page 4 of cover.

The complete workshop materials, which include several country papers and complementary documents, are included in the accompanying CD-ROM.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-74).

General consensus among policy-makers in the developing world and aid agencies is that the lack of capacity is constraining the development of irrigated agriculture. Although this concern is not new, it is now receiving much attention in the irrigation and drainage world where it is becoming an issue in its own right rather than being embedded in infrastructure investment projects. This publication contains a synthesis of a workshop that brought together a range of case studies from different parts of the world, as well as three keynote papers prepared for the workshop based on the available literature and experience.

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"TC/M/Y5524E/1/07.04/1100"--Page 4 of cover.