MENARID Knowledge Exchange workshop24th to 28th of March, Hammamet, Tunisia

H. JaziNational Project ManagerMENARID, Iran

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Participatory GISa tool for land and water management

Description of the innovation

• Participatory GIS as a tool for land and water management

• Yazd, Iran

• This method is practiced in one village and it is going to be repeated for other villages in the area.

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Description of the innovation (2)

• Lots of dispute over land tenure • 32 hectare divided into 359 parcels with the average of 0.09 ha.

• Planning for INRM needs information and tools• Traditional knowledge and community information have to be

analyzed via suitable tools • Monitoring is a part of INRM which is possible through map

and its attributes updating process• Map is of powerful means for visualization of the points toall parties to understand the main problems • Consensus over maps should made by stakeholders

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• Differences between government and local people over state rangelands and forests.• Conversion of range and forest to other land

uses• Differences between local people• Water management is difficult and confusing

due to smallness of the land parcels• Water demand increases and upstream-

downstream story is started

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Dispute over land tenure and water

Method• Cause and effect analysis workshop on water shortage problem

was held • Based on root analysis we agreed to get insight into the current

situation through mapping• Preparation of the concept note, instruction and TOR papers• Contracting a local expert • A local active group aware of traditional irrigation system and

land tenure status was formed by rural development committee • Preparation of the map• Re-consulting meeting with local community for map review• Make the consensus over the map, boundaries and water paths• Projects like proper water running system via pipes and

improvement of cropping system were design 5

Consulting process and assignments

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Involvement of active group

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Preparation of the map in the field

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Maps and overlaps

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Maps and geo-referencing

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Lets discuss the result

Attribute tables

•All forms of information were collected and put in tables•Tenure data(on water and land management ) were collected via active group discussion coincide with survey and added to the tables 12

Result

• Creation of the common ground for government and local people for land tenure issue• Updateable database for monitoring future

change detection• Fundamental information for INRM• Participation of rural people help them to

find out about their resources and limitation• Planning projects based on the innovation 13

Maps are on the wall of rural development office to be used for projects planning

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Tangible result

• Local people were complain on water scarcity and their priorities was drilling well, making dam, transfer water inter basin but now they believe that having a proper management plan will lead to excess of water

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SWOT analysis resultsStrengths of your organization when the innovation has been implemented

Weaknesses of your organization when the innovation has been implemented

Opportunities (external factors from the environment)

Threats(external factors from the environment)

• Integration of indigenous knowledge and modern techniques

• Participatory approach

• Training the youth

• Involvement of NGO

• Lack of up to date air born images

• Indigenous knowledge

• Dispute over water use management

• New challenges are inevitable when land and its boundary get more clear and precise

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Recommendations to policy-makers to scale-up the innovation, and to remove constraints

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• Indigenous knowledge and new technologies could be used in an integrated manner

• Resource management need correct information and should be prepare with the people

• A monitoring system should be provided to the local people using maps and GIS

• It is very important, local people do not resist against new techniques and let it help them. In other hand it is also important that outsiders believe that the modern tools have to share with people via participatory tools

• The TORs of eco-socio studies should contain PRA tools and works as an umbrella for final analyzing and planning process

Thanks for your kind attention

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Let us discuss it ! Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome!

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