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Dr. Farhad Mukhtarov Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences & Policy

Good Governance and Sustainable Development: Lessons for the South Caucasus from South Africa, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Dr. Farhad Mukhtarov Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences & Policy ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan. PlayPumps as a solution?. What is Good Governance?.

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Dr. Farhad Mukhtarov Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences & Policy

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  1. Good Governance and Sustainable Development:Lessons for the South Caucasus from South Africa, Turkey and Azerbaijan Dr.FarhadMukhtarov Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences & Policy ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan

  2. PlayPumps as a solution?

  3. What is Good Governance? “Politikos” (something to do with citizens) Something that a government does Something that anyone may have A set of rules and guidelines Something that does not exist in all languages Something that is enforced by “police”

  4. World Bank defines Good Governance as follows: A predictable, open, and enlightened policy-making (that is, transparent processes); a bureaucracy imbued with a professional ethos; an executive arm of government accountable for its actions, and a strong civil society participating in public affairs, and all behaving under the rule of law (World Bank, 1994).

  5. What is Governance? Hutema, Dave, online. www.watergovernance.eu

  6. Flood Insurance Provision in the EU

  7. Why “Good Governance” can be dangerous? Good governance can be seen as a panacea; “We know how to transfer resources, people and technology across cultural borders. But well-functioning public institutions require certain habits of mind, and operate in complex ways that resist being moved” (Fukuyama, 2005)

  8. Water User Associations (WUA) “A water users’ association, or WUA, is a nongovernment, nonprofit organization initiated and managed by a group of farmers and other water users along one or more hydrological subsystems or watercourses. [...] By organizing themselves, they can put together the financial, material, technical, and human resources needed to manage, operate, and maintain an efficient irrigation and drainage system in their locality.“ (ADB, 2006)

  9. Case 1: South-eastern Turkey’s failure to have good governance Harris, Leila (2002) Water and Conflict Geographies of the Southeastern Anatolia Project

  10. Irrigation infrastructure in GAP

  11. People who farm and use water

  12. Case 2: Azerbaijan’s failure to have decentralised irrigation management

  13. Case 2: Azerbaijan’s failure to have decentralised irrigation management

  14. On-farm canals in Quba, Azerbaijan

  15. Key points emerged from the case study • Infrastructure and capacity-building • Path-dependence and the Soviet legacy • Collective action in a hierarchical society And above all – the importance of context in introducing “good water governance” to countries…

  16. Why did PlayPumps become a success story? • Collaborative Design where designers, users and intermediaries work together • Experimentation and learning (started with 900 and then adjusted). Worked from the context, not from the “text”.

  17. Thank You! • Contact information: fmukhtarov@gmail.com • Policy Blog: www.policytranslation.eu • Upcoming paper on this subject Mukhtarov, F., Fox, S., Wegerich, K. and Mukhamedova, N. (2015) Institutional design in the face of contextual relevance: water user associations in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. Environmental Science and Policy. Forthcoming

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