process and aims of the working group 4
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Working Group 4TRANSCRIPT
Equitable distribution of water rights
and access: water, poverty and gender
Dr. Gert Jan Veldwisch & Dr. Rutgerd BoelensIrrigation and Water Engineering Group
Erik HeijmansDirector of the BSc and MSc programmes International Land and Water Management
Practical set-up
Tuesday: - 2 sessions
Wednesday: - 1 session
- ICM strategies- market place
- 1 session
Thursday: - field day
Friday: - 1 session- presentations
Aims of the working group
Develop a basic research and action agenda on issues around inequitable access to water and decision making around access to water
To be able to do this:
Determine the issues and processes at stake
Draw lessons from existing action research programmes
Analysis of 6 cases
We will:
1. identify lines of division between water user groups,
2. define processes of exclusion from access to both water and decision making processes,
3. explore the underlying structures that lead to unequal access to water, and
4. identify the existing and possible directions in which solutions to these conflicts could be found.
Analysis of 6 cases
Analysis of 6 cases
Practical set-up – first part
Tuesday morning: Hans Komakech (Tanzania)
Tuesday afternoon: Thierry Lassalle (Rwanda)Pascaline
Babadankpodji (Benin) Francis Nkoka (Mozambique)
Wednesday: Hervé Levite (Burkina Faso) Ignatius Gutsa (Zimbabwe)
Synthesis on the 6 cases
Practical set-up – second part
Wednesday afternoon: Discussions on ICM presentations
Sharing of experiences
Friday morning: Finalise discussions on research and action agenda
Plenary presentation of the results