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Preparing women for decision-making with local citizen science

This article explores the potential of citizen science as a tool for empowering women in decision-making processes related to river basins management. It discusses the challenges and opportunities of integrating women in sustainable water resource governance, highlighting the importance of skill development, local citizen monitoring schemes, and support for women sustainability entrepreneurs.

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Preparing women for decision-making with local citizen science

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  1. Integration and Inclusion- New Ideas for collaboration in River Basins Management, Policies and Practices Nile Basin Dialogue Summit 2017 Preparing women for decision-making with local citizen science Kenneth Irvine, Ellen Pfeiffer and Uta Wehn, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands

  2. Citizen Science is changing participation. Can it be a useful tool for women empowerment? source: Gt20.eu)

  3. The Governance Challenge • Sustainability requires visionary, adaptive, holistic leadership • Reality involves: • Many conflicting factors • Development often seen as signal issue focus • Institutional structures impede rather than enable • Any holistic vision faces implementation in a fragmented world

  4. Use Floriane‘s IAD adaptation? Whatwesee. Policyanalysisofa resourcegovernancesystem Source: Clement (2008); A multi-level analysis of forest policies in Northern Vietnam: Uplands, people, institutions and discourses

  5. Donors What communities see. Unequal opportunities for villages Resources issues District Officials Wildlife Forestry Fisheries Water KAZA Promises of income unfulfilled Increasing droughts Local Council Fishstocks depleted Community forests Crop Damage WDC Dept. Parks & Wildlife Conservation enforcement Illegal logging CRB Catchment NWASCO BRE(Royal establishment) Local Indunas Forestry Dept. Fisheries Dept. ZamCom Source: Stakeholder workshops GT2.0 project with Village Action Groups and CRB Sesheke West, Zambia. Ministry Chiefs /Trad. Affairs Timber Companies

  6. Water as gender(ed) issue Source: World Bank Water and Sanitation Program 2012 cartoon calendar http://www.wsp.org/content/2012-cartoon-calendar

  7. Women & Water for Change in Communities • Two-year action research initiative in Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia • Skill development promoting female participation in water-related decisions • Develop local citizen monitoring schemes • Support women sustainability entrepreneurs Premise: Femaleparticpation… • improvesWASH andresourceuse • dependson skillsandeconomicstatus

  8. Action Sites

  9. Common Challenges • Implementation of co-designed management plans • Major threats often from external economic needs (energy, timber, transport) • Majority of livelihoods resource-dependent • Disconnect between outside‘ perception and realities on the ground • Deficit of information on state of local resource

  10. Lower Mara: Linking citizens through participatory mapping

  11. Empoweringwomen/youth as citizenscientists Knowing Safeguarding Observing Data

  12. Agenys of change and behavioural choices: Influenced by what we see.... Source: World Development Report 2015 …our peers do.

  13. Donors What communities see. Unequal opportunities for villages Resources issues District Officials Understand what is relevant. Open issues for discussion. Communicate how you see it Wildlife Forestry Fisheries Water KAZA Promises of income unfulfilled Increasing droughts Local Council Fishstocks depleted Community forests Crop Damage WDC Dept. Parks & Wildlife Conservation enforcement Illegal logging CRB Catchment NWASCO BRE(Royal establishment) Local Indunas Forestry Dept. Fisheries Dept. ZamCom Source: Stakeholder workshops GT2.0 project with Village Action Groups and CRB Sesheke West, Zambia. Timber Companies Ministry Chiefs /Trad. Affairs

  14. Some Core Challenges • Local meaning of equity? • Selection bias? • Participation vs. agency? • Which decisions? ...But also opportunities for new approaches

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