Rwanda - Impact, Maintenance, and Sustainability of Irrigation Impact Evaluation Survey 2015-2018

The irrigation study context consists of 4 LWH hillside irrigation schemes and their surrounding terraced land across 5 districts of Rwanda. We use Spatial Regression Discontinuity analysis to capture the effects of irrigation. In the first 3 irrigation schemes (in Karongi and Nyanza), we use randomized control trials to document the impact of complementary interventions that have the potential to increase the returns and sustainability of irrigation. The complementary interventions included in the study are 1) providing demonstration minikits to a random subset of farmers, 2) providing irrigation subsidies to randomly selected farmers, and 3) empowering monitors in a randomly selected number of water user groups to keep operations and maintenance checklist and irrigation schedule. The baseline and 3 follow up surveys for the first 3 schemes (in Karongi and Nyanza) and the baseline and 1 follow up survey for the 4th site (Rwamagana) are documented here.