Water and Poverty                  Irrigation to alleviate poverty                    Poverty

Gender and Water Alliance network http://www.fr.genderandwater.org/page/8003

WB (June 2008). Water, Wealth and Poverty http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=5979361

New York Times article (28 September 2007).Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/asia/28water.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

ADB (2003). Water and Poverty – A collection of thematic papers, various authors. http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2003/3WWF/Thematic_papers.pdf

• Pro-poor water governance

• Community capacity building and empowerment: wasting resources or ensuring sustainability?

• Reaching the poorest of the poor

• Understanding gender, water and poverty

• Poverty, water and health

• Water for food security for the poor

• The role of water in the development of sustainable livelihoods of the poor

Water and Poverty Initiative (2003). Working Document. Rural poverty and water initiative http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2003/3WWF/Rural_Water_and_Poverty_Action_Initiative.pdf

3^rd World Water Forum – Water and Poverty

• Session Report on Opening Plenary: The Multiple Roles of Water in Poverty Reduction

• Session Report on Securing Community Development and Sustainable Livelihoods for the Poor

• Session Report on Water, the MDGs and PRSPs- Mainstreaming Poverty Reduction in Water Management

• Session Report on Reducing Vulnerabilities - Managing Water-Related Disasters and Ensuring Health and Environmental Security

• Session Report on Changing Policies and Improving Governance for Water Security for the Poor

• Session Report on Closing Plenary: Building Partnerships for Action

ADB Water and Poverty Initiative

• Bringing Water to the Poor - Selected ADB Case Studies

• A collection of case studies – Experiences from the field

• Poverty and Water Security: Fighting Poverty Through Water Management

• Water and Poverty - The Realities

• Water and Poverty - The Themes

• The Water and Poverty Initiative - What We Can Learn and What We Must Do

• Water and Poverty-Fighting Poverty through Water Management

• Water for the Poor - Partnerships for Action

• Rural Water and Poverty Action Initiative - Letter of Intent for Investment Partnership between Viet Nam and ADB

Irrigation to alleviate poverty

IWMI Water & Poverty Site http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/propoor/index.asp

ICID, Irrigation and Drainage, managing Water for Sustainable Agriculture, Vol 56, Number 2-3 (April-July 2007). Special Issue: Irrigation and Poverty Alleviation: Pro-poor intervention startegies in Irrigated Agriculture, edited by Intizar Hussain. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/114195608/issue

IWMI, JBIC (March 2007). Impact of Irrigation Infrastructure Development on Dynamics of Incomes and Poverty: Econometric Evidence Using Panel Data from Sri Lanka http://www.jbic.go.jp/english/research/report/paper/pdf/rp32_e01.pdf

WB, Agricultural & Rural Development Notes (June 2006). Monitoring and Evaluating the Poverty Impacts of Agricultural Water Investments http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTARD/Resources/Note15_ME_poverty.pdf

WB, Directions in development (2006). Reengaging in Agricultural Water Management - Challenges and Options
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTARD/Resources/DID_AWM.pdf

CGIAR Challenge Program in Water and Food, Basin Focal Project Working Paper 3 (draft 2006). Analyzing Water Poverty: Water, Agriculture and Poverty in Basins
http://www.waterandfood.org/fileadmin/CPWF_Documents/Documents/Basin_Focal_Projects/BFP_restricted/Paper_3_14JY06.pdf

Water & Poverty: Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/propoor/index.asp

 Asian Development Bank (2006). Linking Poverty Reduction and Water Management
http://www.povertyenvironment.net/?q=filestore2/download/287/PEP-LinkingPovertyReductionandWaterManagement.pdf

DFID, Mott Mc Donald (December 2005). Equity, Irrigation and Poverty - How to distribute water to the poor.
http://www.livelihoods.org/post/Docs/R8338-Summary-Report.pdf

IWMI, ADB (May 2005). Pro-poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia- Poverty in Irrigated Agriculture: Issues, Lessons, Options and Guidelines. Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam

• http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/propoor/files/ADB_Project/IWMI-ADB%20Final%20-%20sum.pdf

• http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/propoor/files/ADB_Project/IWMI-ADB%20Final.pdf

International Water Academy of Norway (November 2003). Water for the Poorest (Africa focus).
http://www.thewateracademy.org/stavanger/CSDfinalreport.doc

Michael Lipton, Julie Litchfield and Jean-Marc Faurès. Water Policy 5 (2003). The effects of irrigation on poverty: a framework for analysis. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/PRU/irrigation.pdf

Barbara van Koppen. Comprehensive Assessment of Water management in agriculture. Issues of water management in agriculture: Compilation of essays (2003). Water development for poverty eradication
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Assessment/FILES/pdf/publications/other/Issues.pdf

IDS (2002). Export Horticulture and Poverty in Kenya, IDS Working Paper No. 174 (also published as Discussion Paper 4) by Neil McCulloch and Masako Ota (pdf file-419KB). This paper reports the results of a household survey in Kenya undertaken explicitly to compare the incomes of households involved in export horticulture with those which are not.
http://www.gapresearch.org/production/Wp174%20form.pdf

C.S. Kim and Glenn D. Shaible, USDA. Environmental and Resource Economics (2000). Economic benefits resulting from irrigation water use: Theory and an application to groundwater use http://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/enreec/v17y2000i1p73-87.html

IPTRID issue paper 1 (January 1999). Poverty Reduction and Irrigated Agriculture. ftp://ftp.fao.org/agl/iptrid/is_pa_01.pdf

Poverty

Poverty Environment Partnership http://www.povertyenvironment.net

French network of interest: http://www.reseau-impact.org

• Page on Growth, Poverty, Inequalities http://www.reseau-impact.org/spip.php?mot1

• 2 key texts available in English – in particular “History, Beliefs and fundamental issues” which deals with the approach to poverty and proposes a larger socio-economic understanding of the part of a community that is poor.

• The page of links is quite interesting http://www.reseau-impact.org/spip.php?article26 and http://www.reseau-impact.org/spip.php?article27.

ODS (December 2007). The missing dimension of poverty data: Introduction to the special issue.
http://www.capabilityapproach.com/pubs/Alkire%20ODS%20Intro.pdf

IFPRI 2020 Discussion paper 43 (2007). The World's Most Deprived - Characteristics and Causes of Extreme Poverty and Hunger. http://www.ifpri.org/2020/dp/vp43.asp

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

• http://www.povertyandconservation.info

• (January 2007). http://www.povertyandconservation.info/docs/20070101ImpactAssessment.pdf

IFAD targeting policy (2006)

• http://www.ifad.org/pub/policy/target/targeting_e.pdf in English

• http://www.ifad.org/pub/policy/target/targeting_f.pdf en français

• http://www.ifad.org/pub/policy/target/targeting_s.pdf en espaňol

• http://www.chronicpoverty.org/resources/cprc_report_2004-2005_contents.html

• Partners http://www.chronicpoverty.org/partners/index.html

World Bank Publications

World Bank. 2002. A Sourcebook for Poverty Reduction Strategies. Volume 2. Chapter 15 : Rural Poverty.

  

World Bank. 2001. Globalization, Inequality, and Poverty since 1980. David Dollar. WB Development Research Group.

 

World Bank. 1999. Evaluating the Poverty Impact of Projects: A Handbook for Practitioners. Judy L. Baker

German Development Institute, Discussion paper (December 2007). Poverty Oriented Irrigation Policy in Kenya - Empirical Results and Suggestion for Reform.
http://www.die-gdi.de/die_homepage.nsf/6f3fa777ba64bd9ec12569cb00547f1b/be803da30eaa92b8c12572670041d831/$FILE/Neubert_etal-2007_Irrigation_Kenya.pdf