IWMI's on-line publication section contains several thousand pages of peer reviewed research on water management. All research outputs and publications produced by IWMI are international public goods, freely available to partners in developing countries and to members of the international development, academic and research communities.

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Research Report Series
Peer-reviewed research highlighting generic findings.

The IWMI Research Reports Series is the Institute's flagship research publications, a series of internationally peer-reviewed research reports. The review process for Research Reports is similar to the review process for recognized international scientific journals (anonymous peer review).

The purpose of research reports is to highlight generic scientific tools and lessons that can be culled from IWMI research.

This series was created in 1995 and is well known in the worldwide community of water resources management, irrigation and agricultural research. Several thousand are distributed to readers and institutions in developing countries and the international development community. Several thousand more are downloaded from this web site.

Comprehensive Assessment Research Report Series
The CA Research Report series captures results of collaborative research conducted under the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. It also includes reports contributed by individual scientists and organizations that significantly advance knowledge on key Assessment questions. Each report undergoes a rigorous peer-review process. The research presented in the series feeds into the Assessment’s primary output – a “State of the World” report and set of options back by hundreds of leading water and development professionals and water users.

SWIM Papers
State-of-the-art and methodology papers. Results of research addressing multiple dimensions of water management.

SWIM, the System-Wide Initiative on Water Management, is a collaborative program of research involving many different Future Harvest Centers. The purpose of SWIM is to bring a range of perspectives and expertise to bear on some of the key challenges of water management. Publications cover state-of-the-art and methodology papers that assisted the identification of priorities for SWIM and reports on the results of SWIM studies.

CABI Publications
IWMI Research papers published by CABI

Water Policy Briefings
The Water Policy Briefing series presents new perspectives and solutions to water problems in developing countries. Each briefing is based on peer-reviewed research that challenges policy makers and planners to think differently about the way water is managed for agriculture.
The series has grown out of research conducted by the IWMI-TATA Water Policy Program in India, which recommends solutions to India's water crisis. It is now being expanded to provide policy recommendations from the research of the International Water Management Institute and its partners.

Working Paper Series
Case studies, data, proceedings and country reports.

IWMI Working Papers document the work and thinking of IWMI researchers that fall outside the scope of the generic concepts presented in the Research Report Series. These publications are a collection of conference or workshop proceedings, discussion papers or reports on progress of research, country-specific research papers, monographs, selected reports to donors and partners, etc. Working Papers are reviewed internally. Much of the work in this series documents the research being done in the many countries and regions where the Institute is active.

Pakistan Report Series
Findings, case studies and project reports from IWMI's work in Pakistan.

IWMI's Pakistan National Program has produced research finding and results in the form of its own publication series—dating from 1986 through 2000, when the series was discontinued. Summaries of these reports are now available on-line.

Latin American Series

Proceedings

The IWMI publish conference proceedings are another dissemination tool of IWMI research output. All international and local conferences which IWMI was publisher/join publisher were listed.

Books

Other Research Publications
Briefings. Guidelines. Proceedings. Special Reports.

Since 1995, IWMI has produced a number of books, papers, proceedings outside of its regular research series. Currently available on this website are papers encapsulating IWMI's research thinking on Global Water Security, Water Scarcity and Poverty, Increasing the Role of Productivity of Water in Agriculture, The Role of Storage in Development, Poverty and Gender, and the Global Groundwater Situation. These 'issues papers' represent the Institute's contribution to the World Water Vision for Food and Rural Development - an exercise of the Second World Water Forum held in the Hague in March 2000.

Newsletters
News of the Progress and Impact of IWMI's Research.

Download archived copies of the Research Update. This new quarterly publication presents case studies and research findings of interest to the development community. You can also join the Research Update mailing list to receive a regular copy.

Annual Reports
IWMI's Annual Reports from 1996 to the present.

Publications Catalogue
Lists all IWMI publications - including many not available on the website - with instructions for ordering.

Other Publications
Project reports and other publications by IWMI including documents for the world water forum.