OECD Principles on Water Governance in practice: an assessment of existing frameworks in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and South America

Neto, Susana; Camkin, Jeff; Fenemor, Andrew; Tan, Poh-Ling; Baptista, Jaime Melo; Ribeiro, Márcia Maria Rios; Schulze, R. E.; Stuart-Hill, Sabine; Spray, Chris; Elfithri, Rahmah

doi:10.1080/02508060.2018.1402650

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“…For example, water conflicts are treated as an issue to be mostly resolved by the state. Neto et al (2018) stress the limitation of the application of the principles in transboundary rivers. Another problem is the invisibility of indigenous peoples, whether due to the absence or the scarcity of guidelines aimed specifically at these peoples.…”

Section: Oecd Water Governance Principlesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Multi-level governance application to a shared river basin

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Ribeiro

Silva

2020

RBRH

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Water governance systems must be effective in establishing policies capable of guiding decision making. Their framework needs to weigh the intrinsic complexity of inter-scale and multi-level interactions. Aspects such as decentralization and stakeholder engagement are pillars to be considered. In shared river basins (international or national), there are challenges to overcome since there is a need for managing water at different scales and multiple levels. This study aims to analyse the degree of implementation of the National Water Resources Policy in a shared federal basin in Brazil (the São Francisco River Basin) considering the basin as a whole (macro level) and its micro level (the 34 sub-basins that compose it). Multi-level interrelationships in the implementation of water policy are analysed. To this end, OECD Water Governance Principle 2 (“Manage water at the appropriate scales”) is considered as the basis for this analysis. An adaptation of the OECD Water Governance Indicator Framework methodology is used to classify the 34 sub-basins at different stages of water policy implementation. The outcomes indicate deficiencies in the process of water policy implementation in sub-basins. There is a need for better interactions at the federal, state and river basin levels to strengthen the governance system.

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Section: Oecd Water Governance Principlesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Multi-level governance application to a shared river basin

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Ribeiro

Silva

2020

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“…The literature contains several examples of the OECD Principles being used as an analytical and auditing tool. The OECD Principles were used to compare water governance policies across six countries [17], to discuss changes in France's water governance [18], and assess the Dutch Flood Protection Program [19]. A key conclusion of the Dutch assessment was the importance of focusing on actual practices, not only on the overarching governance processes.…”

Section: The Oecd 12 Principles On Water Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Whose Rules? A Water Justice Critique of the OECD’s 12 Principles on Water Governance

Taylor

Longboat

Grafton

2019

Water

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The article constructively critiques the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) 12 Principles on Water Governance (the OECD Principles). The human rights standard, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), provided the foundation for conceptualizing Indigenous water rights. The analysis used a modification of Zwarteveen and Boelens’ 2014 framework of the four echelons of water contestation. The analysis indicates that the OECD Principles assume state authority over water governance, make invisible Indigenous peoples’ own water governance systems and perpetuate the discourses of water colonialism. Drawing on Indigenous peoples’ water declarations, the Anishinaabe ‘Seven Grandfathers’ as water governance principles and Haudenosaunee examples, we demonstrate that the OECD Principles privilege certain understandings of water over others, reinforcing the dominant discourses of water as a resource and water governance based on extractive relationships with water. Reconciling the OECD Principles with UNDRIP’s human rights standard promotes Indigenous water justice. One option is to develop a reinterpretation of the OECD Principles. A second, potentially more substantive option is to review and reform the OECD Principles. A reform might consider adding a new dimension, ‘water justice,’ to the OECD Principles. Before reinterpretation or reform can occur, broader input is needed, and inclusion of Indigenous peoples into that process.

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“…While the river basin was still identified as the critical scale of management, other aspects such as public participation were prioritised. In the intervening period, IWRM principles have spread globally, supported by international transfer agents [23] such as the Global Water Partnership, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [7,24]. The EU has become a key actor as well, promoting IWRM principles amongst its member states via the Water Framework Directive (WFD) [25] as well as, through the EU Water Initiative, in other countries worldwide [26].…”

Section: Integrated Water Resources Management: Origins Consolidatiomentioning

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Mutual Learning and Policy Transfer in Integrated Water Resources Management: A Research Agenda

Fritsch

Benson

2019

Water

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Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has become a global paradigm for the governance of surface, coastal and groundwater. International bodies such as the European Union, the Global Water Partnership, and the United Nations have taken the lead to promote IWRM principles, while countries worldwide have undertaken reforms to implement these principles and to restructure their domestic or regional water governance arrangements. However, the international transfer of IWRM principles raises a number of theoretical, empirical and normative questions related to its causes, processes and outcomes. These questions will be explored in our Special Issue ‘Governing IWRM: Mutual Learning and Policy Transfer’. This editorial briefly introduces IWRM and links this governance paradigm to theoretical and empirical scholarship on policy transfer. We then summarise the aims and objectives of this Special Issue, provide an overview of the articles brought together here and offer avenues for future research.

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OECD Principles on Water Governance in practice: an assessment of existing frameworks in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and South America

Cited by 42 publications

References 31 publications

Multi-level governance application to a shared river basin

Multi-level governance application to a shared river basin

Whose Rules? A Water Justice Critique of the OECD’s 12 Principles on Water Governance

Mutual Learning and Policy Transfer in Integrated Water Resources Management: A Research Agenda

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