

@mastersthesis {6900,
	title = {Zimbabwe{\^a}{\textquestiondown}{\textquestiondown}s water reform and effects on local level water management processes and rural livelihoods: evidence from {Lower} {Save} {East} sub-catchment},
	year = {2008},
	note = {U525216},
	school = {The University of Manchester (United Kingdom)},
	type = {phdPh.{D}.},
	address = {Ann Arbor},
	abstract = {{\textless}p {\textgreater}This study examined the effects of water reform on local level water management processes, and rural livelihoods in Lower Save East (LSE) sub-catchment area, in Save Catchment.{\^A} Firstly, the analysis on local level water management processes focused on the participation and representation of different water users, specifically communal farmers and communal irrigators, in decentralised water management processes, through the sub-catchment council.{\^A} However, participation and representation of water users has been undermined by the complex institutional, historical and hydrological context, within which water use and participation, must occur.{\^A} Added to this, are parallel institutional processes, one relating to technical aspects, while the other, dealing with participatory issues, of water management, within the broad water reform.{\^A} These processes have impeded the participation of water users in decentralised water management processes.{\textless}/p{\textgreater} {\textless}p {\textgreater}Despite the fact that LSE sub-catchment council was supposed to be self-financing, the study found the greatest proportion of revenue generated from water charges was remitted to the central government, leaving the sub-catchment council with limited financial resources to sustain it.{\^A} The study concludes that, this had the attendant effect of subverting the participatory function of LSE sub-catchment council.{\textless}/p{\textgreater} {\textless}p {\textgreater}Secondly, this research showed that, despite the purported benefits of paying for water, most communal irrigators were reducing the amount of land they irrigate, resorting to one crop per season and abandoning irrigation altogether, on account of water charges.{\textless}/p{\textgreater}},
	keywords = {0503:Agricultural economics, 508833, Agricultural economics, Bibliographies, Psychology{\textendash}Abstracting, Social sciences, Statistics},
	url = {http://search.proquest.com/docview/898748334?accountid=14270},
	author = {Mtisi, S}
}
