Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Executive Summary -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Boxes -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. National irrigation programs and their governance under water scarcity conditions: an analytical perspective -- Chapter 3. Irrigation Modernization and Rehabilitation Programs, a spectrum of experiences: Analysis and lessons learnt -- Chapter 4. Participatory irrigation and institutional reforms in the Mediterranean Region: governance achievements and problems -- Chapter 5. Improving local governance: problems and solutions -- Chapter 6. Private Public Partnerships (PPPs) in Irrigation. Myth or promising reality? -- Chapter 7. M&E systems for PIM/IMT programs - Review of experiences and guidance for their application to WUOs.

This book aims at deriving governance and sustainability lessons from analysing the implementation and management of some major irrigation programs in the Mediterranean Region. Eight countries are targeted, namely: Spain, Italy, Albania, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. The main focus programs include the modernisation and rehabilitation of the existing irrigation systems, the transfer of irrigation management responsibilities to water users' organizations, public private partnerships arrangements, the monitoring & evaluation of participatory irrigation management and transfer processes, and the governance of groundwater resources for irrigation. The adopted approach relies on learning from the value of each single experience, and on advancing solutions that emerge from their comparative analysis and that may be of guidance to those engaged in these programs. The country experiences indicated that often times, significant shortcomings in the implementation of these programs have occurred and hopefully, this book could be a source of inspiration for the corrective actions needed. .