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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 284-300Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2015.1020999
Keywords
institutional barriers; policy implementation; sectoral egoism; water resources development; integrated water resources management; Nepal
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- CGIAR Research Programme on Water, Land, and Ecosystems through International Water Management Institute
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Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been prescribed in the global water policy literature for decades. This article looks at how the concept has been applied in Nepal. It highlights the normative approach in IWRM policy formulation, the existing institutional barriers to apply it and how these resulted in the framing of IWRM 'implementation' as merely a compilation of donor-funded projects. Current discourse on IWRM highlights the need to shift the emphasis from national policy formulation to local adaptive, pragmatic approaches to IWRM. This article brings to light the need to identify potential entry points to scale up locally rooted water management approaches towards the development of nested institutional set-ups in water resources management.
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