Participatory GIS a tool for land and water management

1. Participatory GISa tool for land and water management MENARID Knowledge Exchange workshop 24th to 28th of March, Hammamet, Tunisia H. Jazi National Project Manager MENARID, Iran

2. 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.

3. 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 to all parties to understand the main problems • Consensus over maps should made by stakeholders

4. Dispute over land tenure and water • 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

5. 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

6. Consulting process and assignments

7. Involvement of active group

8. Preparation of the map in the field

9. Maps and overlaps

10. Maps and geo-referencing

11. Lets discuss the result

12. 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

13. 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

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

15. 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

16. SWOT analysis results

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

18. Thanks for your kind attention

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