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Starting from the assessment that past efforts at reform in agricultural water management in developing countries have achieved very little, this article argues that a fundamental change is required in the approach to policy and institutional transformation if the present deadlock in the internalisation of ecological sustainability, human development/poverty alleviation and democratic governance into the 'core business' of water bureaucracies is to be overcome. 'Social engineering' approaches need to be replaced by 'strategic action' approaches that acknowledge the inherently political character and the plurality of actors, institutions and objectives of water management - a perspective operationalised here around the notions of 'problemshed' and 'issue network.'

This presentation provides an overview of the SANREM research regarding decentralization reform and property rights in forest management. Realizing that decentralization reform often falls short of its sustainable natural resource management objectives, the research hypothesizes that this is a consequence of blueprint policies ill adapted to the local context and that reforms will be more effective under particular circumstances. This is accomplished by longitudinal study regarding the impacts of reform in Uganda, Kenya, Bolivia and Mexico. ; LTRA-1 (Decentralization Reforms and Property Rights)