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

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13. Attribute tables • All forms of information were collected and put in tables • Demographic data were collected via questioners and added to the tables

14. Result • Creation of the common ground for government and local people for land tenure issue • Updateable database for 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

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

16. Tangible result • Local people were complain on water scarcity, now they understand that having a proper management plan will lead to excess of water

17. SWOT analysis results

18. 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

19. Thanks for your attention

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