MAFURIKO: Design of Nzoia Basin Location Based Flood Game

Onencan, Abby Muricho; Kortmann, Rens; Kulei, Felix; Enserin, Bert

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.138

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“…The Nzoia WeShareIt game was inspired by the original Nzoia WeShareIt game, which had been designed for the Nile river basin where different upstream and downstream countries had to negotiate to earn 'happy faces' [16][17][18][19]21,67]. Later, we customized the game for the smaller Nzoia basin within the larger Nile river ecosystem [17,20,67]. Water policy gaming is selected as a quasi-experiment to understand the contribution of PAD and DD to water negotiation outcomes.…”

Section: The Nzoia Weshareit Water Policy Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, players had their own individual goals of making their county government residents happy. Third, the game was designed to ensure that the competition between the shared goal and the individual goals is healthy and leads to the development of complementary roles and niches within the basin [16][17][18][19][20][21]41,67].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In total, there were 12 females and 23 males. Most of the participants had a bachelor's degree (20). The age range of most of the participants was 25 to 34 (11), 35 to 44 (7) and 45 to 55 (10) [67].…”

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Influence of Personal Attributes and Demographic Diversity on Nzoia Basin Negotiation Outcomes

Onencan

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2019

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The Kenyan government has made significant advances in water resources management at the local authority (county) level with little or no cooperation at the drainage basin level. Research on critical determinants of cooperation amongst transboundary water negotiation teams is limited. In this paper, we assess whether personal attribute diversity (PAD) is a stronger factor than demographic diversity (gender, age, and education play) in determining whether the negotiation team will cooperate or make unilateral actions. We use a negotiation game to study decisions taken by water policymakers. After that, we conduct a multiple discriminant analysis (MDA) to assess the influence of PAD, gender, age, and education on water negotiation outcomes. The findings indicate that PAD plays a significant role in determining whether the group will cooperate or compete. Gender, education, and age barely influence the outcome. Only upon removal of the PAD variable do we see an increase in the discriminant power of gender and education. Age has minimal influence on the negotiation outcomes. We apply the research at a lower level of governance (Nzoia River Basin). However, results might be extrapolated to a bigger basin, like the Nile Basin, through future multiple level analysis which takes account of the complex socio-technical systems.

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Influence of Personal Attributes and Demographic Diversity on Nzoia Basin Negotiation Outcomes

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Walle

2019

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“…Most of these commitments can be initiated through individual and joint action [13,14,[17][18][19][20]26], without being contingent on financial, investment, technical and human resource support, as stated in the SNC [33,34]. Awareness of the role of government and the community in implementing some of Sustainability 2018, 10,1929 5 of 30 these actions could improve decision-making with limited or no financial support [14].…”

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“…Awareness of the role of government and the community in implementing some of Sustainability 2018, 10,1929 5 of 30 these actions could improve decision-making with limited or no financial support [14]. For instance, increased awareness of the contribution of the following practices to GHG emissions may lead to positive actions: non-electric vehicles, hydroelectric power production, meat consumption from ruminants, poor land and animal husbandry practices, poor waste management practices, cutting of trees and the increased use of wood fuel [13,17]. This increased awareness may also contribute to informed decision making [18].…”

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From Paris Agreement to Action: Enhancing Climate Change Familiarity and Situation Awareness

Onencan

Walle

2018

Sustainability

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The Paris Agreement was a monumental stride towards global climate change governance. It unlocked the climate change gridlock, introducing country-subjective commitments and a five-year review mechanism. To support the implementation of the Paris Agreement, we designed the Nzoia WeShareIt climate change game. Game sessions were conducted in June and July 2015, and 35 respondents completed a pre-and post-game situation awareness (SA) questionnaire and an in-game performance measurement system. The questionnaire uses a 10-dimensional situation awareness rating technique (SART). Subsequently, we conducted a factorial MANOVA (multivariate analysis of variance) to assess the interaction effects between familiarity, team, and gender. Results indicate an increase in situation awareness. However, policymakers' action was not contingent on the increased SA only, there was a significant interaction effect between familiarity and SA, to lead to climate change actions. Therefore, we recommend more emphasis on the role of familiarity in enhancing SA and, subsequently, supporting the implementation to the Paris five-year review country commitments. We also recommend the increased usage of symbols and capacity development of policymakers on connective capacity to enable them to span the climate change boundaries.

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An Overview of Location-Based Game Authoring Tools for Education

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2018

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MAFURIKO: Design of Nzoia Basin Location Based Flood Game

Cited by 20 publications

References 7 publications

Influence of Personal Attributes and Demographic Diversity on Nzoia Basin Negotiation Outcomes

Influence of Personal Attributes and Demographic Diversity on Nzoia Basin Negotiation Outcomes

From Paris Agreement to Action: Enhancing Climate Change Familiarity and Situation Awareness

An Overview of Location-Based Game Authoring Tools for Education

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