Reforming Water Governance: Principles Enabling Practice
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Reforming Water Governance: Principles Enabling Practice
Dr Mark SmithHead
IUCN Water ProgrammeGland, Switzerland
5th GEF-IW ConferenceCairns, Australia
October 2009
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Session plan
1. Welcome & objectives
2. RULE Case: Pangani basin, Tanzania
3. NEGOTIATE Case: national dialogues, Mekong basin
4. SHARE Case: eg. Tigris-Euphrates
5. Breakout groups: key questions (30 mins)
6. Feedback & synthesis
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Simple Objectives
• Identify strategies, skills and tools needed for effective water reforms
• Prioritisation of needs
• Better able to identify key entry points for building national and transboundary water governance capacity
Water Governance Capacity: a Framework for Reforms
Dr Mark SmithHead
IUCN Water ProgrammeGland, Switzerland
5th GEF-IW ConferenceCairns, Australia
October 2009
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Why reform water governance?
• sustainable water management in place of bad water management
• development benefits– MDG 7– empowerment – equity– environmental justice
• transboundary cooperation
• conceptual framework and guidance tools
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Water Governance Capacity
“Water Governance Capacity is a nation’s level of competence to implement
effective water management through policies, laws, institutions,
regulations and compliance mechanisms”
→ Without clear policy… it is difficult to establish coherent laws→ Without clear laws… it is difficult for institutions to know how to operate→ Without effective institutions… implementation and enforcement will be lax
A country needs balanced, coordinated Water Governance Capacity
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Theoretical roadmap for WGC
Policy Law Institutions Implementation
set priorities
institutionalframework
roles & responsibilities
cost recovery &financing
internationalcooperation
transparency &accountability
basic principles allocation rules& mechanisms
pollution control
principles of:social equitysustainability
customary law
synchronisation
institutionalauthority
conservation
compliance &enforcement
contracts capacity
regulations
transparency,certainty &
accountability
incentives
representation
informationmanagement
compliance
enforcement &penalties
Int RBOs
water board
WUAs
Ministry
utilities
courts
ombudsman
corruptioncommission
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Tailoring to context
Authoritative
Policy → Design → Plan → Law → National Water Authority
Pluralistic-Liberal
Policy → Negotiations → A Deal → Law → Basin Authority
Decentralised-Communitarian
Policy → Joint Action → Learning by Doing → (Customary) Law → Microwatershed Council
Roadmap, architecture, entry points and ambition depend on what exists and what is possible
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Undertaking reform: linking to realities
1. Assess what’s in place2. Assess what’s needed in context
Policy Law Institutions Implementation
What are realities?
What are capacities?
What existing laws?
What will work?
What will fit politic
al structures?
How to coordinate WGC?
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Guidance and cases
Reforming water governance
Multi-stakeholder processes & consensus building
Transboundary agreements& institutions
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Session plan
1. Welcome & objectives
2. RULE Case: Pangani basin, Tanzania
3. NEGOTIATE Case: national dialogues, Mekong basin
4. SHARE Case: eg. Tigris-Euphrates
5. Breakout groups: key questions (30 mins)
6. Feedback & synthesis