Productivity and Efficiency
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water efficiency is the smart use of our water resources through water-saving technologies and simple steps. Using water efficiently will help ensure reliable water supplies today and for future generations. Topics addressed in this theme provide insights, lessons, and guidance on how diverse stakeholders are working to improve water management and reduce water use.
Productivity and Efficiency Resources
A Study of the Environmental Policies, Processes and Practices of Worchester Polytechnic Institute and the Technische Universitat Darmstadt
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January 1, 2008Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The goal of this research project, which has an environmental focus, is to study and compare the environmental policies, practices and processes of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, in addition to outside factors that may also have an influence...Read more
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United StatesPrinciples Into Practice: Impact Evaluations of Agriculture Projects
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October 1, 2012Millennium Challenge Corporation
The U.S. Government is committed to learning what works to reduce poverty and increase food security through agriculture investments. There are many tools for learning from program experience. However, impact evaluations are central to a learning agenda that moves beyond business-as-usual...Read more
Southern Zone Water Management (SZWM)
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November 1, 1996U.S. Agency for International Development
Summarizes attached interim evaluation of a project to improve farmer utilization of water and agricultural recovery of fertile valley lands in the southern regions of Ziguinchor and Kolda, Senegal. The evaluation covered the period 1988-2/94. After a slow start, the project has begun to achieve...Read more
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SenegalSub-Saharan AfricaThird Annual Program Review of Tunisia Private Participation in Environmental Services Program
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July 1, 1996U.S. Agency for International Development
The purpose of this review is to provide decision makers in the Government of Tunisia and USAID/RHUDO with a review of the PPES program progress since its inception. This review focuses on activities since June 1995, which was the date of the second annual review. The third annual program reveiw...Read more
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TunisiaMiddle East and North AfricaHandbook for Rapid Appraisal of Fisheries Management Systems
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January 1, 1996U.S. Agency for International Development
Rapid appraisal of fisheries management systems (RAFMS) is a semi structured research tool designed to quickly document and evaluate existing local-level fisheries management systems in a given coastal community. The results of RAFMS will provide direction for undertaking more formal research or...Read more
1995 Annual External Evaluation Panel Review Report for the Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program
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January 1, 1996U.S. Agency for International Development
This annual report is intended to provide insights and suggestions for strengthening and enhancing the Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture (PD/A) Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) from an overall program perspective. The annual External Evaluation Panel (EEP) review also offers an objective...Read more
Methodology for Participatory Evaluation of O&M in Distributary and Field Canals
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July 1, 1995U.S. Agency for International Development
During a tour of d- and f- canals, the Managing Director of MEA requested MARD to propose a low cost method of evaluating the state of tertiary system maintenance in System B. MARD's staff worked for several months, in consultation with MEA engineers and farmers' organizations, developing...Read more
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Sri LankaSouth East AsiaOrnamental Marine Fish Collection: Impact Survey in Sri Lanka
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February 1, 1995U.S. Agency for International Development
Interviews with government officials, marine ornamental fish collectors, and aquarium fish exporters were conducted to obtain information on number of fishes and species in exports, distributions of important species, and trends in abundances. Export invoices were obtained from several exporters...Read more
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Sri LankaSouth East AsiaParticipatory Rural Appraisal for Irrigation Management Research
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January 1, 1995U.S. Agency for International Development
The presenl paper focuses on one appralsal methodology: Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), and on its use for Irrigation Management Research (IMR). As will be discussed in the following sections, to link these two topics requires two initial c1arif?cations. The first clarification relates to lhe...Read more
Adoption and Economics of Silver Barb (Puntius Gonionotus) Culture in Seasonal Waters in Bangladesh
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January 1, 1994U.S. Agency for International Development
Hundreds of thousands of seasonal ponds and ditches in rural Bangladesh are mostly derelict or underutilized, due to lack of appropriate aquaculture technologies. On-station and on-farm research undertaken by the Fisheries Research Institute resulted in development of management practices ior...Read more
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