ABSTRACT
Experience in the past 30 years of water management has shown that technology alone is not sufficient to reduce poverty, enhance food security and increase rural livelihoods. Appropriate institutions are necessary for technologies to be taken up and used, especially in agriculture and natural resource management. In this chapter we review and summarize the findings of the research that was carried out in the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) on institutions for water management. We also examine how research was used by policy and other decision-makers to influence development outcomes.
