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2 Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) 2000. Proceedings - SIWI Seminar: Water Security for Multinational Water Systems: Opportunity for Development, Stockholm, August 19, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden: SIWI. 154p. (SIWI report 8)
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3 Ashton, P. 2000. Water security for multi-national river basin states: The special case of the Okavango River Basin. In Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Proceedings - SIWI Seminar: Water Security for Multinational Water Systems: Opportunity for Development, Stockholm, August 19, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden: SIWI. pp.110-121.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 STO Record No: H028155)
4 Ramsar Convention Bureau. 2000. Guidelines for international cooperation under the Ramsar convention on wetlands. Gland, Switzerland: The Bureau. 51p. (Ramsar handbooks for the wise use of wetlands no.9)
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Includes guidelines adopted by the 7th Conference of the Contracting Parties, San JosT, Costa Rica, May 1999.
5 Turton, A. R. 2004. Evolution of water management institutions in select Southern African international river basins. In Biswas, A. K.; Unver, O.; Tortajada, C. (Eds.). Water as a focus for regional development. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press (OUP) pp.251-289.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 BIS Record No: H041117)
6 Hellegers, P. J. G. J. 2005. The role of economics in integrated river basin management. In Lankford, B. A.; Mahoo, H. F. (Eds.). Proceedings of East Africa Integrated River Basin Management Conference, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 7 – 9 March 2005. Theme five: water economics and livelihoods. Morogoro, Tanzania: Soil-Water Management Research Group, Sokoine University of Agriculture. pp.279-284.
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8 Davidsen, P. A. 2010. Hydrosolidarity as water security in the Okavango River Basin. In Wegerich, Kai; Warner, J. (Eds.). The politics of water: a survey. London, UK: Routledge. pp.68-95.
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9 Treffner, J.; Mioc, V.; Wegerich, Kai. 2010. International river basins. In Wegerich, Kai; Warner, J. (Eds.). The politics of water: a survey. London, UK: Routledge. pp.321-369.
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10 Institute of Water and Sanitation Development (IWSD). 2010. 11th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27-29 October 2010. IWRM for national and regional integration: where science, policy and practice meet: water and land. Harare, Zimbabwe: Institute of Water and Sanitation Development (IWSD). 561p.
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11 Turton, A.; Ashton, P. J.; Cloete, E. (Eds.) 2003. Transboundary rivers, sovereignty and development: hydropolitical drivers in the Okavango River Basin. Pretoria, South Africa: African Water Issues Research Unit; Geneva, Switzerland: Green Cross International. 368p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 TUR Record No: H045094)
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12 Global Water Partnership (GWP). 2013. The role of decision support systems and models in integrated river basin management. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership (GWP). 48p.
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 EAR Record No: H046317)
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14 Jansky, L.; Uitto, J. I. (Eds.) 2005. Enhancing participation and governance in water resources management: conventional approaches and information technology. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press. 222p. (Water Resources Management and Policy)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 JAN Record No: H046466)
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15 Bruch, C.; Jansky, L.; Nakayama, M.; Salewicz, K. A. (Eds.) 2005. Public participation in the governance of international freshwater resources. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press. 506p. (Water Resources Management and Policy)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 BRU Record No: H046475)
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Secretariats are an increasingly common feature in Africa’s transboundary river basin organizations (RBOs). Non-secretariat-based forms of transboundary RBOs nonetheless also exist, and such forms of cooperation have often functioned effectively. These realities drive questions about the rationale and role for secretariats. This paper employs two approaches to compare secretariat-based RBOs vis-à-vis RBOs without secretariats in Africa. First, we compared the degree to which five governance instruments, determined to enable effective transboundary water management, are contained in treaties creating secretariat-based RBOs versus treaties creating non-secretariat-based RBOs. Second, the costs and benefits of six African transboundary RBOs – three with secretariat and three without – were compared based on a survey of regular costs and volume and number of projects. Key findings are that RBOs with secretariats have achieved stronger governance and secured more investment than RBOs without secretariats. Costs associated with operating secretariats appear justified by their benefits. These findings help to lay an improved basis for selecting desired models of RBOs in Africa’s transboundary basins.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050296)
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This study aims to resolve a potential water conflict between the upper catchment communities of the Okavango River Basin and the downward communities in the Okavango Delta. A model to payment for ecosystem services is developed at the basin level, recognizing spatial diversity and water flows. It addresses four objectives: (1) To assess relationships between water consumption and land use from a spatial perspective. (2) To estimate water availability under current land use as a reference without any water policy intervention. (3) To optimize water flow generation as intended for getting ecosystem services. This is based on the mechanism of payments for ecosystem services, specifically in terms of land use change as stewardship. (4) To compensate farmers for economic losses due to upstream land use changes. Our study suggests that an integrated basin management should consider payments for ecosystem services to incentivize forest conservation. The annual payments of US$28.7 million could encourage farmers upstream to change their land uses from deforestation to forest conservation. With compensation, approximately 8.7 million hectares of Miombo forests would be maintained in the basin, which would secure 3656 million m3 of water during the rainy season and subsequently benefit the Delta in the dry season.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050830)
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Data exchange in transboundary waters is fundamental to advance cooperation in water management. Nonetheless, the degree to which data are actually shared is falling short of basin-level and international targets. A global assessment revealed that a reasonable proportion of river basins exchange some data, but the breadth of such exchange is often limited and not regular. More in-depth examination of African basins nonetheless suggests that a real need for, and use of, water data appears to motivate exchange. Indeed, evidence suggests that data exchange needs which are more directly felt enhance exchange, e.g., the direct need to minimize flood impacts or manage transboundary infrastructure. As such, data sharing is much more likely to be considered as being successful if it responds to a palpable need and serves practical uses. Also, in developing data exchange programs, it may be prudent to adopt a focused and sequential approach to data exchange that starts with a short-list of most needed parameters.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051831)
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Despite widespread recognition of the importance of data exchange in transboundary waters’ management, there is growing evidence that data exchange is falling short in practice. A possible explanation may be that data exchange occurs where and when it is needed. Needs for data exchange in shared waters, nonetheless, have not been systematically assessed. This paper evaluates data exchange needs in a set of transboundary basins and compares such needs with evidenced levels of data exchange. Our findings indicate that it may be possible to accelerate data exchange by identifying and promoting the exchange of data that respond to palpable need and serve practical use.
20 Anghileri, D.; Pastori, M.; Marcos-Garcia, P.; Umlauf, G.; Crestaz, E.; Seliger, R.; Iervolino, A.; Cordano, E.; Cattaneo, L.; Carmona-Moreno, C. 2024. Global water challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa and how to strengthen science-policy dialogues on transboundary governance and cooperation. Journal of Environmental Management, 365:121417. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121417]
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The United Nations Water Conference 2023 highlighted the need for concrete actions to boost integrated water resources management for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and called for strategies to enhance cooperation among stakeholders. Technical cooperation between countries and institutions in transboundary systems, e.g., on environmental data collection, is an effective way to promote international diplomacy and prevent disputes between riparian states. Still, establishing collaborations to inform bilateral dialogues on the identification of environmental challenges, their causes, and development priorities may be a difficult task in itself. This is particularly true in the African context because of limited resources and lack of data. In this paper, we analyse the case of nine transboundary river basins in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify which water-management challenges are perceived as most important by the different riparian countries from a policy and scientific perspective. Our insights are based on the most up-to-date scientific papers, open access reports and technical literature, river basin authority’s strategy papers, projects’ summary reports, and national policy documents. We also complement these sources with the pieces of information we gained through collaborations with regional and local experts, and management bodies (such as river basin authorities). We highlight the current water-related conflicts and the gap between the priorities identified by the scientific community and different riparian countries on how to tackle hydro-climatic change and improve food and energy security, human and environmental health. Based on our experience, we discuss some keys to building trust among stakeholders, strengthening cooperation, and identifying shared water-governance measures in transboundary river basins. They are: (i) connect science and policy to provide sound knowledge for the right questions, (ii) value local knowledge and exploit the complementarity of different perspectives, (iii) consider multiple spatial scales and multi-level stakeholders to leave no one behind, (iv) promote a culture which values trade-offs and handles complexity, and (v) co-create data and knowledge to facilitate stakeholder dialogue from problem definition to intervention identification.
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