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River Basin Management

River Basin Management. Building Knowledge for Change. SAWI Overview. SAWI Objective Promote better water management within and between South Asian countries, emphasizing regional cooperation and adaptation to climate change Goal of poverty alleviation and sustainable, equitable growth

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River Basin Management

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  1. River Basin Management Building Knowledge for Change

  2. SAWI Overview • SAWI Objective • Promotebetter water management within and between South Asian countries, emphasizing regional cooperation and adaptation to climate change • Goal of poverty alleviation and sustainable, equitable growth • Process • Inter-disciplinary, inter-sectoral and inclusive • Building and balancing: • New knowledge • Information-based multi-stakeholder dialogue • Strategic, sustainable investments

  3. SAWI: Three level portfolio

  4. 1 2 Benefits Motivate Cooperation Why cooperate 3 The bottom line: The choice between cooperation & conflict will depend upon perceptions of their relative benefits Countries cooperate when they believe it is in their interest 1 2 Country 1’s National Agenda Country 2’s National Agenda Cooperative Agenda ‘3’ Input from Claudia Sadoff

  5. The benefits of cooperation What is “Benefit Sharing” • Focus on sharing benefits, rather than water • Negotiating around the benefits derived from the multiple uses of water • Rather than focusing on physical water allocation (which is ‘zero sum’) • Focus on structuring the distribution of benefits (& costs) • Exploring a range of benefit sharing mechanisms • Generate a range of alternative benefit (re)distributions Input from Claudia Sadoff

  6. The Benefits of Cooperation Improved ecosystem sustainability, conservation & water quality Type 1: Environmental Increasing Benefits To the river Improved productivity, flood & drought management Type 2: Economic Increasing Benefits From the river Type 3: Political Decreasing Costs Because of the river Policy shift to cooperation & development Broader regional cooperation & integration Type 4: Indirect Economic Increasing Benefits Beyond the river Sadoff & Grey, 2002

  7. But, if there were to be regional cooperation …

  8. Factors that multiply benefits…

  9. The bothersome questions • Is there more than one ‘knowledge’? • Whose knowledge? • How is such knowledge generated, documented and communicated? • Is it a complex problem with multiple views, knowledge and truths? • Dominant discourse (if any) versus others • Who are the decision-makers? • Why are they not collaborating? • What is their knowledge base? • What drives them to do what they are doing? • Why would they collaborate? What would make them do it? • In South Asia, all decisions at political level … • Is the government a complex entity or a single entity?

  10. What is the process?

  11. Moving strategically • Creation of a vision • For elites, by elites, of elites? Or of the masses? • Multiples visions with common threads? • Conviction • From “us versus them” to “WE” • From dividing waters to multiplying benefits • Emotional & pragmatic issues • Is our reasoning only rational? • Do emotions play a role in achieving regional cooperation? • Do we have a “Champion” or “Champions”?

  12. Directions as we move forward • A larger process of deliberations, consultations and communication • Multiple role of media • Audience • Influencer • Information creator • Switch the discourse to national/strategic interest within people’s interest? • Not enough of “what” is known; much less of “how” is evident • How to include government in the civil society’s discourse? • But who does all this?

  13. Key role by influencers Track 2 diplomacy

  14. Process

  15. The way forward • Cooperation across the three “I”s Input from Claudia Sadoff

  16. Thank you sgupta6@worldbank.org +91 11 4147 9454

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