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Maximizing Stakeholder Participation in Groundwater Management

Learn how to categorize stakeholders, maintain participation over time, and empower communities in groundwater decision-making. Explore different levels of participation and benefits. Identify key stakeholders to ensure effective engagement.

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Maximizing Stakeholder Participation in Groundwater Management

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  1. StakeholderParticipation in ground water management: N. Neseni

  2. Learning objectives • Learn how to identify and categorise stakeholders. • Consider different stakeholder structures and responsibilities in groundwater management. • Get guidance on how to maintain stakeholder participation over time.

  3. Defining Participation • Participation refers to the community’s active involvement in matters affecting them, and includes their making decisions on the right actions to take. • There are however, different levels of participation.

  4. Why stakeholder participation in groundwater management? • Stakeholders want to participate: • To protect their interests; • To get problems fixed. • Stakeholders need to participate: • Government decisions hard to implement without social support; • Some management tasks are more efficiently carries out by stakeholders; • Small aquifers require local management.

  5. Forms/levels of Participation • Passive Participation • Participation in information giving • Participation for material rewards • Functional participation • Interactive participation • Self-mobilization

  6. Self mobilisation Interactive Information giving Functional Passive participation

  7. Benefits from Stakeholder participation. • Informed decision-making using stakeholder experience; • Conflict prevention by development of consensus and information sharing. • social benefits - promote equity among users; • economic benefits - optimize pumping and reduce energy costs; • technical benefits - better estimates of water abstraction.

  8. Who are the water stakeholders? • Civil society-Consumers, NGOs, CBOs, Trade unions, Labour, media. • Service providers-formal (public utilities) and informal (water vendors, farmers with water from private wells) • Policy formulation and Coordinating bodies- • Private sector- Banks-Micro financing, PPPs, and WB, AFDB • Regulatory bodies • River Basins Authorities • Trans boundary organisations • External support agencies • Legislators

  9. Identification of key stakeholders. • Stakeholder analysis has three steps: • Identify the key stakeholders that could potentially affect or be affected by changes in groundwater management. • Assess stakeholder interests and the potential impact of groundwater management decisions on these interests. • Assess the influence and importance of the identified stakeholders. • => linked to the development of an institutional process of long term engagement of stakeholders in Groundwater Management.

  10. Categories of stakeholders

  11. Government as a stakeholder • Inadequate attention given to government agencies as stakeholder. • Functions spread across gvt. agencies; • Objectives differ; • Opportunity to influence other gvt. agencies. How can we get government agencies to work together?

  12. What are the institutional mechanisms for stakeholder participationin groundwater management? • Participation can take place at all levels from the tap to governing bodies. • A finely tuned balance of regulations and incentives is needed for stakeholder structures to function.

  13. Zimbabwe: institutional arrangements. Government Stakeholders ZINWA Board 4 Catchment chairpersons ZINWA Catchment council Catchment manager Sub catchment council WUA WUA WUA

  14. Good News. We have just successfully drafted a policy paper on groundwater management. What role should government play in participatorygroundwater management?

  15. Stakeholder mobilisation • Are you clear why stakeholders are being mobilised – and the expected result? • Often just a task to be done because it is in the work plan. • Stakeholders need to be convinced of the benefit to them – many may see only disadvantages. • Information, transparency, negotiation are all essential.

  16. Stakeholder participation • Mechanisms: • Make complex situations understandable; information is a basis for discussion; • Empower stakeholder organisations so that they have real responsibility; • Ensure all stakeholders are represented; • Where necessary, establish a sound groundwater rights system.

  17. TASK- To discuss on proposed charges for GW management • The Water Directors/Managers will present to stakeholders a proposed scheme to charge for groundwater use, monitoring and pollution management. • The stakeholders will respond with questions and comments on the proposals according to their specific interests(irrigations/commercial agriculture, subsistence agriculture, industries, municipal, utility, household users etc • 10 minutes to organise yourselves and your ideas • 20 minutes for debriefing and questions/comments

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