African Institutions for Integrated Water Resources Management

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African Institutions for Integrated Water
Resources Management

• New challenges for Capacity Building
• Paul Taylor, Cap-Net
• Ingvar Andersson, UNDP

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Water sector reforms

• Many African countries are in the process of
  introducing water sector reforms to improve
  management of water resource.(Global agenda,
  droughts, floods)
• Resulting in legal, regulatory and institutional
  change
• Implementation, especially at the institutional
  and operational level is slow and only few
  countries have completed institutional reforms

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New institutions, new functions

• The new institutions respond to the need for new
  functions and new systems, often with new
  players, such as stakeholders.
• One example of reform under implementation is
  Zimbabwe

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IWRM in Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT
4 members
ZINWA Board
ZINWA
Catchment Council
Catchment Manager
Sub-Catchment Council
Water User Associations
Decision making
STAKEHOLDERS
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Changing roles

• Changing role of government and stakeholders
• Decisions made in Catchment Councils
• Councils democratically elected
• Government advisor to Catchment Councils.
• Situation will evolve with time

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Challenges in the Reform

• Flow of information up and down- to maintain
  interest and participation, relevance and
  transparency
• Democracy, participation (relevant level)
• Capacity building for new roles
• Sustainability (costs, who pays)

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Capacity Building for New Roles

• Implementing a new system with several
  interacting institutions
• Capacity building institutions have little direct
  experience with these new systems
• Not only training but also time, experience and
  growth

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Capacity Building for New Roles

• At the outset of reform need to consider how to
  build capacity in CB institutions to support the
  reform process in the short and long term
• Need to reach the present managers of water
  resources and
• the future decision makers (university education).

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Collaboration-exchange-sharing

• Need to assemble and share experiences on
  capacity building experiences on IWRM, training
  materials etc. with other partners
• GWP IWRM Tool Box

www.cap-net.org