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The case of Licto,
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The scale models used in the interactive design of the Licto-Guarguallá Irrigation System aimed to involve the
future water users in decisions about the technical,
organizational and normative framework.
Models of different scales and application
were particularly useful to generate interaction among water
users (most of them female, many of them non-Spanish
speaking and/or illiterate without irrigation design
background), local farmer leaders and project staff.
The multiple indigenous peasant communities
were enabled to visualize and collectively discuss their
irrigation future.
Reference paper:
Rutgerd Boelens. 2005.
Water rights and
participatory irrigation development : the case of Licto,
Ecuador.
Process photo-documentation:
click here to visit the
picture gallery
Film:
Click here to view the film "The right
to be different"
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Literature
Water
rights and empowerment by Boelens R., Hoogendam P. (eds),
2002
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Scale of the general area scale model (maqueta
general) = 1: 10.000 (horizontal) and 1: 3.300 (vertical)
The portable 3D model was brought to each
of the numerous communities in the Licto-Guarguallá
Irrigation System, in order to interactively discuss with
the community members, particularly female farmers, their
design needs and wishes, and the strategies to strengthen
inter-community system design, construction and management
Discussion about farmers’ optimal design and
implementation strategies and rights definition are
facilitated by local (female) water user leaders, in local
language (quichua), in farmers’ own community, avoiding
trainers’ or engineers’ offices and technicist talk and
drawings |
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Searching
for Equity Conception of Justice and Equity in
Peasant Irrigation. Boelens R., Davila G. (eds). 1998. (472
pp.)
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Images and text courtesy of
Rutgerd Boelens, Wageningen University, The Netherlands |
Scale models (maqueta modular). Scale of the
different hydraulic block (or tertiary unit) 1: 400
(horizontal) and 1: 200 (vertical)
Once the general system design was defined
among farmers, farmer leaders and project staff, new
interactive strategies and tools are used to discuss canal
lay out at the hydraulic block or community level.
During the discussions about irrigation
design at community level, many new technical and
organizational issues were brought to the fore by the future
water users, which were incorporated in the final design and
construction proposals. At the same time they got a clear
and collective understanding of their future water use
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Buscando
la Equidad Concepciones sobre Justicia y Equidad en
el Riego Campesino Auteur(s) Boelens R., Davila G. (eds)
1998. (498 pp.)
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In
order to come to a collective discussion about and
understanding of the functioning of the irrigation system
and its elements a new, de-composable (puzzle) scale model
was developed, the pieces of which were to be put together
by future water users in a small area representative of
their community
Particularly female water users, most of them illiterate and
without previous experience in irrigation, could join the
design exercises and see and discuss the consequences of
design choices and alternatives, in their own community and
in local language
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The
author's books published with van Gorcum are available with:
Royal Van Gorcum,
P.O. Box 43, 9400 AA Assen The Netherlands
Phone: +31(0)592 - 37 95 55; Fax +31(0)592 - 37 95 52
Email:
info@vangorcum.nl
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For orders
in the U.S.A. and Canada:
Books International Inc., P.O. Box 605, HERNDON VA 22070,
U.S.A.,
Phone 703 661 1500/ Fax 703 661 1501 |
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 "Derechos
de Agua y Acción Colectiva", edited by Rutgerd Boelens &
Paul Hoogendam, Lima: IEP, 2001. (350 pp.) |
 Boelens,
R. & A. Arroyo (1997), ``Mujer campesina e intervención en
el riego andino. Sistemas de riego y relaciones de género,
caso Licto, Ecuador", book on gender issues and
participatory irrigation development, CESA-SNV, CAMAREN,
Quito, Ecuador (187 pp). |
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Images and text courtesy of
Rutgerd Boelens, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
For more information on the
project you may contact
Rutgerd.Boelens(at)wur.nl
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