Irrigation Water Users' Associations Proclamation No. 841/2014.

This Proclamation regulates matters relating to irrigation water user' associations, which are formed on irrigation infrastructures constructed by federal government throughout Ethiopia. Matters include formation, registration, objectives, organization, administration and membership of water user' associations. The main purposes of an association is to manage an irrigation and drainage system wholly or partly in its service area and provide water equitably to its members for agricultural purpose. The Proclamation also sets out the guiding principles of associations, defines rights and duties of members, defines powers and duties and supervisory bodies, provides for the dissolution of association and liquidation of association, allows a federation of irrigation water users' association to be formed, provides for transfer of the use right of the part of the modern irrigation and drainage system constructed or rehabilitated by government finance to associations and for irrigation water and other related services to be provided by a service provider to an association on the basis of service agreement, and provides for dispute settlement.