Consultants
Dr. Bryan Bruns
Consulting Sociologist
C-723 Lanna Condo, T. Pa Tan
50300 Chiang Mai, Thailand
Telephone: 66-53 872-225
Fax: 66-53 872-226
email: BryanBruns@compuserve.com
Internet: www.BryanBruns.com
Consulting Sociologist, helping people and organizations to improve participation, communication and service delivery in rural development. Specializing in participatory learning and action for water resource management, including farmer-managed irrigation development, irrigation management turnover, water user association development, water supply and sanitation, water rights institutions, and public participation in basin water management.
Skills include action research; project design and review; rapid appraisal; participatory rural appraisal; public consultation; sample survey and case study research; pilot project and program implementation; monitoring and evaluation; and management information system development. Professional work experience in Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Bangladesh, including consulting for the Ford Foundation, World Bank, USAID, UN, and Asian Development Bank.
Dr. Jasveen Jairath
Educational qualifications: B.E., MA, Ph.D. (Economics)
I have been involved in participation of water users for water management for irrigation for the last fifteen years as a researcher, consultant for international projects, and academician. My work has focused on India in the states of Punjab, Maharashtra Karnataka, Himachal, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. My recent work has focused on a feedback from the field of the irrigation reforms in Andhra Pradesh, which was presented at the Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop of the World Bank in Delhi. I am also a member of IndiaNPIM and they have sponsored part of my research. Issues of special concern to me have been institutional sustainability, financial viability, equity/water sharing and productivity of land and water in a gender sensitive context.
Dr. W. Robert Laitos
Computer Assisted Development, Inc.
636 South Shields Street
Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, USA
Telephone: 970.484.2234
Fax: 970.484.2268
email: cadicolo@webaccess.net
Internet: www.webaccess.net/~cadicolo
Long-term experience in Philippines, Indonesia, and Nepal as Team Leader managing and implementing USAID, World Bank, and ADB-funded PIM and irrigation management transfer projects in the field. Short-term assignments in India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Egypt, and Zimbabwe.
Expertise and experience in:
Institutional strengthening of government agencies involved in PIM and management transfer, including local resource management projects.
Development and formation of local user groups for management transfer and improved irrigation management.
Long-term experience implementing ISF programs in Indonesia and Nepal; focus on farmers' groups covering O&M costs of turned over irrigation schemes.
Implementing and evaluating management transfer programs and projects in South and Southeast Asia.
Dr. Robert A. Mohammed
Dr. Robert A. Mohammed
4601 West Marlette Ave.
Glendale, Arizona 85301
USA
Telephone: + 1 623 842 9848 (messages)
E-mail: BobMoham@aol.com
Dr. Robert Mohammed has over 28 years of field experience in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa. He is an engineer, with specialization in the design, construction, operation, and evaluation of water resources systems. His experience includes working with water user associations and/or cooperatives on projects with community development and local participation components. He has worked with USAID, World Bank, ADB, and IDB as a consultant on feasibility studies, evaluations, special studies, and project implementation. In addition, Dr. Mohammed has worked as a farm manager for multinational corporations, directing production operations. Both his private- and public-sector experience involved training of farmers, professionals, and officials in agricultural practices.
Namika Raby
Department of Anthropology
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Boulevard
Long Beach, CA 90840-1003
Telephone: (562) 985-5186
Fax: (562) 985-4379
E-mail: nraby@csulb.edu
Development anthropologist with over twenty years research and publications on the role of public agencies in development, institutional design for participatory irrigation/water resources management in South and Southeast Asia.
Philip J. Riddell, MSc
8 Chemin des Fauvettes
1260, Nyon
Switzerland
Telephone: +41-22-363-1423
Email: PhilRiddell@hotmail.com
From 1975 until 1992, engaged on ``traditional" identification studies; feasibility studies, detailed design and management of projects intended to construct, rehabilitate, extend or upgrade irrigation infrastructure. But as a result of increasing exposure to the broader challenges of poverty alleviation, participation, institutional reform and natural resource management began to participate in, and eventually lead, studies addressing, incorporating or evaluating these as cross cutting issues.
From 1992 until the present, with minor exceptions: engaged as Chief Technical Adviser on programs concerned with the preparation and implementation of institutional and policy reform; institutional capacity building; integrated watershed management; wise use of natural resources; national development plans and donor coordination.
Projects worked on have varied from micro-initiatives at the grass roots through national sectoral development plans to regional policy research and have included several consultancies in the private agribusiness sector as well as technical writing for research institutes and think tanks.
Leadership experience has been gained on a variety of short-term studies as well as long-term assignments as CTA on FAO, UNDP, World Bank and Danida programs.
Interests include program preparation and management; sectoral planning and management; policy formulation; institutional reform/capacity strengthening; participatory approaches; Logical Framework Analysis and general technical writing.
Philip J. Riddell, MSc
8 Chemin des Fauvettes
1260, Nyon
Switzerland
Telephone: +41-22-363-1423
Email: PhilRiddell@hotmail.com
From 1975 until 1992, engaged on ``traditional" identification studies; feasibility studies, detailed design and management of projects intended to construct, rehabilitate, extend or upgrade irrigation infrastructure. But as a result of increasing exposure to the broader challenges of poverty alleviation, participation, institutional reform and natural resource management began to participate in, and eventually lead, studies addressing, incorporating or evaluating these as cross cutting issues.
From 1992 until the present, with minor exceptions: engaged as Chief Technical Adviser on programs concerned with the preparation and implementation of institutional and policy reform; institutional capacity building; integrated watershed management; wise use of natural resources; national development plans and donor coordination.
Projects worked on have varied from micro-initiatives at the grass roots through national sectoral development plans to regional policy research and have included several consultancies in the private agribusiness sector as well as technical writing for research institutes and think tanks.
Leadership experience has been gained on a variety of short-term studies as well as long-term assignments as CTA on FAO, UNDP, World Bank and Danida programs.
Interests include program preparation and management; sectoral planning and management; policy formulation; institutional reform/capacity strengthening; participatory approaches; Logical Framework Analysis and general technical writing.
Dr. Jose Trava
Consultant
Constitucion 13-C, Col. Escandon, Mexico, D.F., CP. 11800, Mexico
Telephone: 525/ 515-4404
Fax: 525/ 271-4105
email: jtrava@infosel.net.mx
Jose L. Trava is an agricultural engineer with a Ph.D. degree from Colorado State University, Fort Collins. From November 1977 to April 1983 he was the Agriculture & Water Resources Secretariat's Director in the State of Baja California, Mexico. From March 1991 to December 1995 he was the National Water Commission's Director of Irrigation Districts. He played the role of Team Leader to assess all Mexican irrigation systems' operational programs, including the transfer of the systems to Water Users' Associations. From January 1996, Dr. Trava has worked as a private consultant on irrigation systems' institutional development. He has done consultancy work for the World Bank on transfer programs in countries such as India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia and Nepal
Dr. Hugh Turral
International Development Technologies Centre
Faculty of Engineering
University of Melbourne, Parkville
Victoria 3052 Australia
Telephone: 61 3 344 6876
Fax: 61 3 344 6868
Email: hnt@devtech.unimelb.edu.au
Present:
1) Research Fellow (University of Melbourne) ACIAR-funded collaborative research project on irrigation management in Vietnam: management systems for public, mainly pumped, irrigation companies of about 10,000 ha, particularly the match between technology (system design, operational rules and management) and institutional aspects (farmer/commune level water management, federations of farmer organisations at secondary canal level, volumetric charging and service contracts).
2) working on behalf of Lachlan River Advisory Committee (Australia), challenging allocation policy by state agency.
Past experience:
1994-1995: Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute. Working Paper 80 and Natural Resources Perspectives No.5.
1987-1989: Madura Groundwater Irrigation Project, Indonesia. Farmer participation in design of about fifty 50 ha. tubewells. WUA training and support for > 120 tubewells.
1982-1984: Nepal. Participatory construction in hill FMIS.
Dr. Douglas Vermillion
4318 South Hogan St.
Spokane, WA 99203-4319 USA
Telephone: 1-509-624-4088
Fax: 1-509-363-1417
email: DVermillion@compuserve.com
Dr. Vermillion has a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University and was a research scientist at the International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI; now IWMI) for twelve years. His expertise is in irrigation management transfer and farmer managed irrigation, policy and institutional reform of irrigation sectors in developing countries, participatory appraisal and performance assessment He has managed comparative research projects in several countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, provided technical assistance and training, edited a series of publications and organized workshops and conferences. Currently, Dr. Vermillion is an independent consultant residing with his family in Spokane, Washington, USA.