multi-level stakeholders’ participation in trans-boundary water management:
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Multi-level stakeholders’ participation in trans-boundary water management:
Experiences from the “Project for Improving Water Governance in the Volta
River Basin” (PAGEV)
By Ousmane S. DIALLO,
Regional Coordinator, Water & Wetlands Programme
Session on Managing Africa’s Trans-boundary Waters
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OUTLINE
What is PAGEV? Focus on Volta River Basin Multi-level stakeholders’ approach Governance structure Achievements Lessons learned Key Challenges
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What is PAGEV?
PAGEV: to strengthen bilateral cooperation between Burkina Faso and Ghana on shared water resources of the Volta Basin
Water and Nature Initiative (WANI): a worldwide initiative of the IUCN that seeks to demonstrate how to mainstream the ecosystem approach into river basin planning and management
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Focus on the Volta River Basin
West Africa : Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Togo (Ghana and Burkina Faso share ~85% of the basin area)
SA: 400,000 km2 ; Pop: 19 millions; increasingly becoming stressed as result of human activities
Enormous development challenges : need for trans-boundary coordination and cooperation on the management of the Volta Basin waters
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The Volta River Basin
Ghana
Burkina Faso
Mali
Benin
Cote d'Ivoire
Togo
Niger
Wa
Pô
Baï
Koro
Lomé
Bouna
Accra
Doropo
Tamalé
Ouankoro
Bondoukou
Lama Kara
Tanguieta
Ouahigouya
Bolgatenga
Natitingou
Ouagadougou
Bobo Dioulasso
80 0 8040
Kilometers
MAP OF VOLTA BASIN SHOWING POLITICAL BOUNDARIES
Legend
Cities and Towns
White_Volta
Black_Volta
Oti_Pendjari
Dams and Lakes
mali
togo
benin
burkina
cote d'ivoire
ghana
Country SA (km2) % SA (Basin) % SA (country)
Côte d’Ivoire
9,890 2.48 3.1
Mali 12,430 3.12 1.0
Bénin 13,590 3.41 12.1
Togo 25,545 6.41 45.0
Ghana165,830 41.6 70.1
Burkina Faso 171,105 42.9 62.4
Total 398,390 100
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Multi-level stakeholders’ approach
NGOs & technical Structures
National and trans-boundary foraNational and trans-boundary fora
At Community level
Steering Committee
Key partners at local, national, trans-boundary levels: joint management of WR
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Governance structure
Multi-stakeholders forums for IWRM at the community, national and trans-boundary levels established to promote cooperation
Local Trans-boundary Committee
(14)
DGRE WRC
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JTC-IWRM/PAGEV
White Volta Basin Board
Nakambé Water Agency
Country CommitteeBURKINA FASO
Representatives of the Communities+ Technical Services
+ Administration+NGOs/Civil Society
(31)
Country CommitteeGHANA
Representatives of the Communities+ Technical Services
+ Administration+NGOs/Civil Society
(30)
Grassroots Communities4 villages BF
(12)
Grassroots Communities
4 villages GH
(12)
VOLTA BASIN AUTHORITY
MMEE MMEE MMEE MEEF
TOGO BURKINA FASO
BENIN GHANA MALI IVORY COAST
MAHRH MWRWH
Local and National fora of stakeholders
Linked to the transboundary structure
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Achievements
PAGEV supported the organization of the 1st meeting of the VBTC held in Ouagadougou on 14-15 March, 2005;
Bilateral Agreement: JTC-IWRM signed by the Ministers of the two countries in December 2005
Protocol establishing the VBA signed in July 2006;
Four (4) states among the six riparian countries have ratified the VBA Convention;
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Code of Conduct for the development & management of the shared waters and basin’s NR drafted by a working group and finalized by the JTC-IWRM in May 2006;
Establishment of national and trans-boundary fora and trans-boundary committee for the management of WR of the Nakanbe River in April 2008.
Achievements (cont’d)
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The MSA: slow, expensive and time consuming; but contributed to establish partnership between ministers, decentralized governmental structures at local levels, NGO’s and communities;
Community-level participation is powerful when outcomes are clearly and directly linked to the improvement of livelihood of participating communities;
Lessons learned
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Language barrier can be overcome with the commitment of stakeholders and governments to strong capacity building;
New approach for more sustainability by bringing national structures at the forefront of implementation of the activities and building capacity of water users committee.
Lessons learned (cont’d)
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Levels of decentralization in the countries;Changes of political leadership at local level; More integrated institutional framework ensuring
sustainability of actions;Expansion to new communities (3 in BF and 9 in
GH); Scaling-up of achievements in the Oti-sub-basin in Togo;
Development of partnerships with GEF-Volta, Volta-Hycos, MOB, PROGEREF, EU/IWRM-Volta…).
Key challenges
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Thank you for your attention
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