River basin management

Le présent document vise à capitaliser les mécanismes de bonne gouvernance autour du réservoir de Kompienga et à proposer des solutions pour la renforcer, dans l’optique que ces bonnes pratiques puis sent être répliqu ées a u niveau d’autres grands ouvrages hydrauliques au Burkina Faso.

Au cours de la période 2009-2012, la Global Water Initiative (GWI) en Afrique de l’Ouest, pilotée par le consortium formé de l’Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (UICN) et l’Institut International pour l’Environnement et le Développement (IIED), a développé avec les partenaires des actions visant à promouvoir le partage des bénéfices avec les populations locales autour des réservoirs.

This publication lays out the basic steps required by a catchment or protected area manager to begin the Strategic Adaptive Management (SAM) process. We provide the series of steps to help deal with the complex task facing the freshwater manager. The guide provides a framework for managing the maintenance of flow regimes and water quality to support healthy ecosystem services desired by stakeholders.

In the Volta basin, WANI and partners have worked with riparian states to improve water governance and water management practices. This has resulted in multi-scale participatory governance frameworks for joint management of water resources and improvement of livelihoods through riverbank protection schemes. This has complemented and helped to facilitate large scale government and donor initiatives that have supported the establishment the Volta Basin Authority.

The Water and Nature Initiate’s (WANI) activities in the Mekong followed a strategy of mobilizing grass-roots engagement of local stakeholders in decision making, while facilitating high-level dialogues. This helped to build networked, multi-stakeholder processes which could begin to bridge local to national and regional decision making in the basin to support improved transboundary basin management.

Climate change and the over exploitation of water resources is challenging the sustainability of the Pangani River Basin to deliver water services. Competition for diminishing water resources has led to tensions between the various stakeholders within the basin. Together with the government of Tanzania and donor partners, WANI has responded to this crisis by supporting the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).

Sobre la cuenca del río Santa se han realizado numerosos foros y se han emitarget_ido diversas declaraciones,1 orientados a promover el mejoramiento de su gestión. El Foro Agua Santa 2011 reconoce todas las iniciativas realizadas sobre gestión ambiental y del recurso hídrico en la cuenca, pero asume que se requieren aún más y mayores esfuerzos.

Parte de la serie de folletos informativos producida en el marco del proyecto “Adaptación de la gestión de los recursos hídricos en la cuenca del río Santa”, por UICN-SUR. Incluye información sobre mecanismos para la implementación de medidas de mitigación y adaptación; esta última en los campos tecnológico, cultural, político, entre otros.