Water Development and Poverty Reduction

Aysegül Kibarogammalu earned her PhD degree in 1998 in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. She spent a post-doctoral fellowship in 2001 in the Department of Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Currently, Dr. Kibarogammalu works as Advisor to the President of the Southeastern Anatolia Project Regional Development Administration (GAP-RDA), and teaches politics of water resources as part-time instructor in the Department of International Relations at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.

• I Conceptual and Methodological Issues.- 1 A Participatory Framework for Poverty Eradication and Environmental Sustainability: The Case of Water Management.- 2 Access to Water as a Dimension of Poverty: The Need to Develop a Water Poverty Index as a Tool for Poverty Reduction.- 3 Impact Assessment as Viable Instrument for Poverty Reduction: Post-Hoc Review on Societal Impacts of Two Power Generation Projects.- 4 The Role of Scientific Uncertainty in Undermining Water Development for Poverty Reduction.- II Institutional Frameworks for Management of Water and Poverty Reduction.- 5 Elements of an Institutional Framework for the Management of Water for Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries.- 6 A Proposal for International Virtual Water Trading Council: Building Institutional Frameworks at International Level to Reduce Poverty.- III Participatory Water Management and Privatization of Urban Water use for Poverty Reduction.- 7 Poor Farmers’ Inclusion in Participatory Irrigation Management in Large-scale Canal Systems in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, India.- 8 Necessity of Rationalization of Water Pricing with Participatory Irrigation Management in India as a Step For Poverty Reduction.- 9 Commercialization and Privatization of Urban Water and Sewerage Services in Turkey: Poverty Reduction View.- IV Case Studies on Water Resources Development and Poverty Reduction.- 10 Dams and Water Development for Poverty Reduction and Regional Development: Issues and Options for Gujarat State.- 11 A New Perspective on Water Development and Poverty Reduction in Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey.- 12 Household Water (In)Security in Jordan: Water for Poor Households.- 13 Gender and Economic Benefits from Domestic Water Supply in Semi-Arid Areas: A Case Study in Banaskantha District, Gujarat,Western-India.- 14 Evaluating the Role of Water Resources Development in Poverty Reduction: A Case Study from Jordan.- Conclusions.