12. Learning from Success Stories and Best Practices in Water Management

Water resources development and management are taking many turning points in terms of their size and scale of investment, approach and methodologies used, varying levels of interventions and their impacts. However, past experiences indicate not all is going well with the investment and management aspects of the irrigation projects. There are many best practices and success stories realized in different regions over years. Adoption of such practices is expected to minimize the cost of wrong implementation decisions and shows the ways for higher project performance. This chapter gives a briefing on the new initiative viz., Support for Irrigation Modernization Program (SIMP) in MMI modernization and outlines several best practices at national and international levels. Also the cases of private sector participation in irrigation project modernization under five different irrigation typologies are presented.