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Claudia Pahl-Wostl, GWSP SSC, October 2009

Water Governance from the basin to the

global

Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Joyeeta Gupta


Basin Governance


Issues addressed

• Comparative studies of multi-level basin governance regimes – transferability of insights

• Adaptive capacity of governance regimes and ability to deal with global change

• State of „global governance regime“• Future development of global water governance –

descriptive and normative perspective• Influence of global water governance on regional /

national levels and vice versa


Basin governance – emerging insights

• Tension between decentralization and centralization

• Tension between line-hierarchies and network governance

• Tension between basin and political boundaries

• Problems of institutional spatial misfit and vertical interplay when new institutions are implemented following hydrological principle

• Lack of sectoral integration - principle of ecosystem goods and services promising approach for integration

• Change at operational level slow despite change in political rhetoric and supportive political frameworks

• Reluctance of stakeholders to acknowledge uncertainties

• Evidence supports need to focus on processes of learning and change


Progress – opportunities related to GWSP endorsed projects

NeWater and Twin2Go


NeWater

New approaches to adaptive water management under uncertainty

Transdisciplinary Research Project: FP6 EU

January 2005 – May 2009Funded with 12 Mio Euro from the EU

35 project partners

www.newater.info


NeWater Contribution GWSP

• Conceptual framework for water governance and management regimes and methods for comparative analyses

• Sharing of data in a global data base and dissemination through a global network

• Material and programmes in capacity building and training of students and practitioners


Capacity Building and Training


Train the Trainers Course

Adaptive Water Management1st course: 1-2 April 2008, Osnabrück, Germany2nd course: 13-15 October 2008, New Delhi, India3rd course: 12-14 May 2009, Bonn, Germany

collaboration NeWATER (EU), GWSP, UNW-DPC, UNU (United Nations University)

Capacity Building and Training


Twin2Go

Coordinating Twinning partnerships towards more adaptive Governance in river basins

Coordination Action: FP7 EU

Start June 2009 – duration 2 yearsFunded with 1 Mio Euro from the EU

8 project partners


Twin2Go Objectives

• elaborate a diagnostic approach that allows analyzing the results of past and on-going projects with regard to water governance and adaptation to climate change

• draw from existing project results appropriate context specific approaches for an improved and adaptive water resources management taking into account experiences made in similar circumstances

• disseminate consolidated results to policy level where decisions are taken while also making them available to stakeholders and implementing authorities, and thus to ensure best exploitation of existing research

• formulate best practices and tools that ensure up-take of research results by relevant authorities, stakeholders and end-users


Basins

30 basins in all continentsAfrica• Orange• Ocavango• Niger • Olifant• Nile


A diagnostic approach

Characteristics of a problem situation

Characteristics of a solution

Match!

No panaceas but context sensitive solutions (processes, instruments….) to

improve the performance of water governance and management


Framework of analysis

Water governance

regime

Context

History

Performance


Twin2Go Contribution GWSP

• Access to international dissemination platform to emphasize importance of global dimension

• GWSP IPO participates as subcontractor handling coordination of international stakeholder platform (and supporting implementation of data base)

• Insights gained in Twin2Go on requirements for adaptive governance and feasibility of diagnostic approach


Comparative analyses of governance regimes will be realized as part of GCI and

GWNI


Global data base

• Lack of (accessible) data from the human dimension• Need to specify requirements for integration of human

dimension and in particular “soft” aspects in integrated analysis

• Need to agree on standardized protocols


GlobalWater Governance


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Governance



Global Water Governance

• World Water Council and World Water Forum• UN Conventions on Water• Human Rights Council (UN)• Millenium Development Project of the UN• European Water Initiative• Global Players in Water Industry• Global Diffusions of Norms/Institutions

Processes


Characteristics of current Global Water Governance

• Global Water Governance is diffuse and “mobius-web” like in character

• Lack of strong motivation within UN agencies and states to push water management has been compensated by rise of pluralistic bodies trying to deal with these issues

• Lack of global coordination and leadership

Pahl-Wostl, et al 2008


Global Water Political System: Converging water policy

Forces: The spread of ExampleCivilizations Mesopotamia - ownership

Religion Islam – priority of use

Conquest Roman, Napoleon, colonization

Ideology Communism

Codification International law Ass.

Epistemic comm. IWA - dams, GWP - IWRM

Environmentalism Laws, NGOs

Globalization Dominant discourses

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Institute for Water Education

Eg. Pluralism in Africa

Combining impact ofreligious systems andcolonisation


Global Water System: Governance Discourses

• Ownership– Sovereignty– Riparianism– Appropriation– Licensing– Market principles– Security

• Management– IWRM

• Access– Equity– Human rights– Gender– Ecosystem rights

• Damage– No harm– Prior Informed Consent

Economic – Open international economic

system– International investment law

• Environmental– EIA– Sustainable development– Precautionary approach– PPP

• Good governance– Participation– Subsidiarity– Conflict resolution


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An Analytical Framework: GWSP

and ESG


Article in latest GWSP Newsletter

Global Water Governance: Quo vadis?


Sessions IHDP Conference Bonn April 2009

Institutionally challenged: history and prospects of managing river basins in a

changing global environment

Governance and the Global Water System: The need to adopt a global perspective on water

issues!


Themes addressedin contributions

• Transformability of river management regimes

• Social Learning and Water Regime Change towards Adaptive and Integrated Approaches

• The Co-Production of Knowledge about Water Resources

• Influence of Political Culture on Water Governance Institutions


Contributions

• Towards a new environmental ethics and the solution of water conflicts: The case of the Latin American Water TribunalPatricia Avila Garcia

• The Global Water System Project and Governance ActivitiesA multi-level governance challenge: How to overcome the seeming trade-off between ecosystem and human water needs?Claudia Pahl-Wostl

• United Waters: From Multi-Governance of Water to Multilevel WaterGovernance - Towards a Kyoto for Watermanagement ? Theo Thoonen


ESF conference proposal

Water Governance Meeting the Challenges of Global Change• Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Joyeeta Gupta and Theo Toonen

• Date: June 2011 – duration of 4 days

• Decision on proposals March/April 2010

Objectives

• Establish state of the art on major recent insights and advances in concepts and methodology in analyses of water governance and policy

• Bridge regional and global scales in multi-level analyses of water governance

• Strengthen emerging community of water governance scholars


Session Themes

Global governance of water – current developments and future prospects

Conceptual foundations to understand properties and dynamics of multi-level water governance regimes

Methods for comparative analyses of multi-level water governance regimes

Water governance addressing (global and) climate change

Water governance addressing the environmental dimension

Legitimacy and multi-level governance: lessons for the water column


Next steps – open issues ….

• Strong request from research community to organize workshop on methods

• Contribution to a global data base (link to activity of a group on data base on SES)

• Need for capacity building• Exploit synergies with Twin2Go – dissemination

strategy• Two workshops on global water governance

– Inventory of themes and approaches -> joint publication– Development of shared perspective(s) -> joint activities


Documents

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