Smallholder irrigation schemes are largely supply driven such that they exclude the beneficiaries on the management decisions and the choice of the irrigation schemes that would best suit their local needs. It is against this background that the decentralisation framework and the Dublin Principles on Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) emphasise the need for a participatory approach to water manage- ment.

There are two common problems in flood
hydrology: 1) estimate the return period for a given flood;
and 2) estimate the flood for a given return period. A
commonly used procedure to solve these problems is to fit a
probability density function such as the Gumbel, Pearson
type three or the generalized extreme value distributions to
the historical data. The Pearson probability distribution
was named after the statistician Pearson, it is also called

This first World Bank for Results report
provides the Bank's shareholders, partners, and
external stakeholders with an integrated view of results and
performance in recent years. It serves as a companion to the
World Bank Corporate Scorecard. Aggregating results that
countries have achieved with Bank support against the
backdrop of global development results, the report also
assesses operational and organizational performance at the

The study examines Bangladesh's
extreme vulnerability to climate change, whose low-lying
topography, and funnel-shaped coast, further exposes the
land to cyclones, and tidal surges, resulting in seasonal
floods. These factors, and the large population base,
widespread poverty, aggravated by the lack of strong
institutional development, makes the country particularly
vulnerable to climate variability. Various climatic factors,

China has very serious water problems
despite substantial economic development achievements,
strong technical expertise, and political stability. But in
terms of its potential and the critical pressing needs for
water resources management, China could do much better in
managing its water resources. The World Bank's
assistance to China in water resources development and
management in the past has tended to be reactive and

Replicating successful agricultural water management interventions in new locations requires consideration of economic, biophysical, institutional, and cultural data. The TAGMI tool offers one way to consider such factors, when targeting agricultural water management interventions.

Successful integrated water resources management depends on interactions between multiple actors at different scales, which is often beyond everyday considerations. The companion modeling-approach is a good framework to highlight interactions between actors and allows for a collective decision-making process to unfold.

Le Burkina Faso, pays soudano-sahe?lien, est caracte?rise? par une irre?gularite? pluviome?trique. Dans sa partie sahe?lienne, la production agricole est faible. Cela oblige les populations a? s'orienter vers des strate?gies d'adaptation comme la production marai?che?re autour des retenues d'eau. C'est le cas de Ziga, Ninigui et de Ouahigouya dans la province du Yatenga.

Majority of the populace in the Upper West Region of Ghana are small-scale farmers who depend mainly on rain-fed agriculture. However, rainfall pattern is uni-modal (April – September) and variable thus making agriculture quite challenging. This has resulted in poverty and food insecurity with migration down south being on the ascendency especially during the dry season.