Book excerpt: Overview of the workshop;mobilization of the rural poor fir access to agricultural; irrigation water management in Gylepphug lift irrigationscheme; role of the institutional organizer in assisting farmers to participate in the rehabilitation of tank systems; using irrigation agency staff as institutional organizers: the small systems turnover program in Indonesia; community organizers and farmer participation: a casestudy of traditional irrigation systems in south Sumatra,Indonesia;role of the social organizers in pumped irrigation systems in Subang, west java, Indonesia; community-based irrigation management in Laos; roleof social organizers in assisting farmer-managed irrigation systems: the case of the agricultural bank of Nepal; role of social organizersin improving irrigation management: the experience in Nepal; role of social organizers: the aga khan rural support programme for irrigation infrastructure development, Gilgit; role of social organizers in communal irrigation development in the Philippines; role of the irrigation community organizers: the siwaragan experience; prospects of using social mobilizers in the management of minor irrigation systems in Sri Lanka; adjusting the process for participatory management through a teamapproach: a case study in North central Sri Lanka; role of social orgnizers in the development of small irrigation systems in Northeast Thailand by the royal irrigation department; opening active communicationbetween agency and peoples irrigation associations through the...