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Performance of Small-scale Participatory Water Projects – an Econometric Analysis of Impact on Income and Assets

K M Nabiul Islam
Senior Research Fellow, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies

Md Nazrul Islam
Research Officer, BIDS

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The small-scale water resources development projects, constructed by Local Government Engineering Department in Bangladesh are designed as participatory at all stages of planning, designing, implementation and maintenance. An econometric modeling exercise is carried out to assess the economic effects of such interventions, to ascertain how far the beneficiaries were able to reap benefits. The results show that such interventions had substantial positive impacts on income and asset for the beneficiary households, although the nonpoor households have benefited more. However, some autonomous growth resulting from factors such as switch to HYV varieties and increased use of inputs due to lower perceived risk of crop failure or reduced losses due to flooding may also have some contribution to these incremental benefits. One is also tempted to suggest that beneficiary participation in all project cycles might have positively contributed to performance of the projects. The performances of the ten subproject and the ten water management cooperative associations (WMCAs) under study were evaluated through multi-criteria analysis. The significant positive rank correlation of the performance between the sub projects and the WMCAs leads to the conclusion that the performance of the SPs is highly dependent on the performance of the WMCAs. Hence, efforts should be made to improve the performance of the WMCAs through improved operation and maintenance in order to ensure the sustainability of the projects and also avoid their costly rehabilitation in the future.

Keywords: Performance, Small scale,Project, Econometric analysis, Income and asset

Location:

Start Date: 00-00-2009

End Date:

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Income generation

Objectives:

To improve water management, flood management, drainage improvement, water conservation and command area development.

Methodology:

In 2009, BIDS carried out a Benefit Monitoring and Evaluation (BME) study to examine the performance of the sub projects, through covering 10 sub projects (SP) of SSWRDSP-1, for which a baseline study was carried out by LGED in 2002 (Islam et al 2009). The study assessed impacts of the sub projects on various aspects related to socio-economic (e.g. income and employment), agriculture (e.g. crop productivity) and water management (e.g. irrigation and drainage facility). This paper is based on that study. The methodology involved collection of data through adopting a ‘project’ (two villages) and ‘control’ area (one village) approach. Data were collected in five modules from households categorized by land-holding size (according to ownership) in 30 villages in total (3 villages from each subproject). The total number of households interviewed was 700. Using a pre-tested structured questionnaire, the selected households were interviewed to generate data on the impact indicators. Systematic random sampling procedure was adopted for the selection of the households. This involved choosing every k-th subsequent unit after the first sample was chosen at random.

Source of Information: Bangladesh J. Agric. Econs. XXXV, 1&2(2012) 91-113

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Achievement/Findings:

The results show that such interventions had substantial positive impacts on income and asset for the beneficiary households, although the nonpoor households have benefited more. However, some autonomous growth resulting from factors such as switch to HYV varieties and increased use of inputs due to lower perceived risk of crop failure or reduced losses due to flooding may also have some contribution to these incremental benefits. One is also tempted to suggest that beneficiary participation in all project cycles might have positively contributed to performance of the projects. The performances of the ten sub projects and the ten water management cooperative associations (WMCAs) under study were evaluated through multi-criteria analysis. The significant positive rank correlation of the performance between the sub projects and the WMCAs leads to the conclusion that the performance of the SPs is highly dependent on the performance of the WMCAs. Hence, efforts should be made to improve the performance of the WMCAs through improved operation and maintenance in order to ensure the sustainability of the projects and also avoid their costly rehabilitation in the future.

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