Making a Large Irrigation Scheme Work

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- Main features of Mali -- Main features of the Office du Niger -- Physical resources -- Infrastructure and water management -- Governance and management of people and resources -- Production before the reforms -- Summary -- Notes -- 2. Reaching a Diagnosis, 1978-82 -- Mali's funding request to the World Bank -- The Segu multidonor meeting -- Deterioration of ON finances: The cost of Costes -- The outcomes of donor explorations -- Restructuring the rice market -- Donors and government narrowly escape stalemate -- Summary -- Notes -- 3. Reform Steps That Shifted the Power Balance, 1982-92 -- A pragmatic pilot at KL2 -- Encountering another set of constraints -- ARPON's policy of technical interventions and pragmatic support -- High-grade modernization, intensification, and innovative institutions -- The role of farmers -- Responses to the partial reforms: World Bank, KfW, and EDF -- Liberalization and protection of the domestic rice market -- Malian government-donor dialogue -- Results -- Summary -- Notes -- 4. Piecing Reforms into a Comprehensive Framework, 1993-96 -- A window of opportunity -- Agency restructuring and sector reforms -- Land-tenure consolidation -- Privatization of assets and activities -- Overhaul of the agricultural credit system -- Results -- Summary -- Notes -- 5. Monitoring Performance and Adjusting Institutions, 1996-2002 -- The development impact of ON reforms -- A chain reaction in institutions -- The ON's future: risks and challenges -- Summary -- Notes -- 6. Relevance of the ON Experience to Other Countries -- The political economy of the reform process at the ON -- The political economy of irrigation reforms -- Building support -- Implementation and consolidation.