Water management issue

IJC International Joint ...

IJC

International Joint Comission (US-Canada) has had two large studies with heavy participatory and collaborative element: International Lake Ontario-St Lawrence River Study (2001-2005) and the International Upper Great Lakes Study. You can find reports in the IJC website and various peer-reviewed and conference papers have been published.

Published July 11, 2012 13:53 by Mark Lorie

Dialogue on TWRM in Asia The ...

Dialogue on TWRM in Asia

The Mekong River Commission has also led some participatory activities.

We are currently doing some bottom up planning with grassroot people and Gram Panchayat in India in the Indus basin (Rajasthan, India).

Regards,

Julie

Published July 10, 2012 13:08 by Julie Ladel, EAUDYSSEY - IWRM Independent Expert

Dear Thomas, Dialogue on ...

Dear Thomas, Dialogue on transboundary water resources management are normally held at River basin organisations and their Member states levels. Successful examples are Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC, www.lcbc.org) Congo Basin Commission (CICOS, www.cicos.info, despite not covering the whole basin) and the Nile Basin Initiative which I would suggest you contact for your study. Maybe ORASECOM (Orange-Senqu River Commission)would also provide you with some useful information. Thank you for sharing your study. Julie (julie.ladel@iwrm.eu)

Published July 10, 2012 13:05 by Julie Ladel, EAUDYSSEY - IWRM Independent Expert

Participatory Water ...

Participatory Water Management

Dear Thomas,

participation is one of the pillars of integrated water resources management and it gets particularly crucial when it comes to transboundary management. There is a plethora of case studies on dialogue and participation in shared water bodies. I won’t suggest you an exhaustive literature review, but I would like to suggest you some selected studies that, in my view, provide excellent examples of participation in water management:

• Beall, et al., 2011. Sustainable Water Resource Management and Participatory System Dynamics. Case Study: Developing the Palouse Basin Participatory Model. Sustainability, 3, 720-742.
• SIWI, 2009. Getting Transboundary Water Right: Theory and Practice for Effective Cooperation (http://bit.ly/NcUlkM)
• Soncini-Sessa, Weber, Castelletti, 2007. Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management – Theory.
• Soncini-Sessa, Cellina, et al. 2007. Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Managment - Practice.
• Ferreyra, C. and P. Beard 2007. "Participatory Evaluation of Collaborative and Integrated Water Management: Insights from the Field." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 502: 271-296.

I hope this can give you a good overview!

Claudia

Published July 10, 2012 11:27 by Claudia Casarotto, Innovations for Poverty Action - Deputy Country Director - Kenya