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CRP5Stakeholder platforms

Addis Ababa, May 28-29

Claudia Ringler

Why?

Water is shared across space and time by a multitude of users with different invested interests and relative power positions

Giving a voice to the many stakeholders remains a challenging, arduous process

If done right, it can help increase equity of water allocation and impact of basin decisions

Research questions

How can the voices of farmers and the poor be incorporated in basin decisions?

How can basin-level policy insights be communicated?

How can basin-level research achieve policy impact?

Multi-stakeholder platforms

Discuss issues

Develop reforms

Study reforms

Understand existing systems

Elements

No one-size-fits-all or panaceas No clean slate (assess current water

rights legislation and administration) Years of discussion with and across

water stakeholders… using a variety of learning processes (including decision-support tools)

Netmap to inform platforms

Basin Netmap Analysis Relative influence (on water

decisions) Formal networks Informal networks Funding networks …. Etc.

Other, important tools Scenario development with

stakeholders Development of model interface

for stakeholders to manipulate Online water model and scenario

tools (stakeholders choose scenarios online)