1. Community based irrigation as socio-political construct Implications for future research Diana Suhardiman IWMI-SEA Colombo, 3 December 2012

2. Why research on community based irrigation? One of the building blocks towards better system performance Understand better its potential and actual roles in relation to the overall system management

3. Objectives Bring to light shortcomings and gaps in the current research Sharpen our research rationale Define our research position Design future research

4. Structure of the presentation Prominent concepts on community-based irrigation FMIS-WUA analogy Community-based irrigation as socio-political construct Implications for future research

5. Research on community-based irrigation Collective action and common pool resources (Ostrom, 1990) Legal pluralism (Benda-Beckmann, 1989) The role of technology and the creation of hydraulic property (Vincent, 2001; Mollinga, 1998)

6. Conflicting views on the role of community in natural resource management Tragedy of the Commons (Hardin, 1968) Institutional Analysis and Development framework (Ostrom, 1990)

7. Organizational approach in irrigation development Community-based irrigation as the ‘solution’ Social engineering of FMIS WUAs formation

8. Gaps in FMIS-WUA analogy (Hunt, 1989) Organizational authority Technical characteristic Scaling problem

9. Shortcoming in past and current research Community-based irrigation as a model for development

10. Viewing community-based irrigation as socio-political construct (Mosse, 1999) Implications for future research Community-based irrigation as: a form of institutional bricolage an integral part of state-society relations a node in polycentric governance structure

11. The shaping of research rationale Community-based irrigation as socio-political construct dynamic characteristics of community-based irrigation focus on evolution

12. Potential building blocks for future research Identification of factors that trigger change Scaling up institutional analysis Nested analysis of rules

13. Both figures for comparison

14. Potential points for discussion: Comparing evolution processes Linking community’s evolution with policy reform processes International policy trends as potential point of reference

15. Thank you Diana Suhardiman d.suhardiman@cgiar.org IWMI-SEA