Emeline Hassenforder (OECD) - 7th WGI Meeting (23-24 June 2016 - The Hague)

1. Flood risk governance:
A shared responsibility
Emeline Hassenforder
OECD Water Governance Programme
7th WGI Meeting, The Hague, 23 June 2016

2. Luckily I live on the 4th floor…
Photo: Golem 13

3. Outline
 Rationale for this work
 Added-value of the paper
 OECD Principles on Water Governance
 Example of the checklist on the scale principle
 Next steps
 Questions for discussion

4. Rationale for this work
Supporting the implementation of the
principles by:
 Providing detailed guidance for specific subsectors
 Taking a closer look at stakeholders’ roles as shared
responsibilities
Supporting the discussion on indicators
Collecting good practices on flood risk governance

5. Added-value of the paper
 A contextualisation of the principles for flood risk
governance
 A checklist to assess whether conditions are in
place to manage risks rather than to manage crisis
Concrete examples and good practices
5 stages of flood risk management:
Anticipation  Prevention/Mitigation  Preparation
 Response  Recovery

6. OECD Principles on Water Governance
TRUST &
ENGAGEMENT
Clear
roles &
responsibilities
Capacity
Policy
coherence
Appropriate
scales within
basin systems
Regulatory
Frameworks
Data &
information
Financing
Innovative
governance
Trade-offs
across users,
rural and urban
areas, and
generations
Integrity &
Transparency
Monitoring
& Evaluation
Stakeholder
engagement
WATER
GOVERNANCE

7. Example
p. 15-16 of the draft paper
• DIAGNOSTIC
• IMPACTS
• MECHANISMS

8. SEP: Collect case studies at different scales:
• “Ticking boxes” in the checklist
• Providing a short paragraph introducing the case
• Peer-reviewing the comparative analysis
NOV: Working paper
DEC: Scientific contribution
Our ambition = Apply the principles to other sub-sectors
(droughts, groundwater)
Next steps

9. Peer-reviewers
Experts:
Peter Driessen,
Marloes Bakker

10. • Do you think the methodology and the checklist
are robust enough to proceed with case studies’
collection?
• How can we enlarge the geographical scope of the
paper ?
• Is the checklist relevant for all scales of
governance?
• How to foster bench learning through case
studies?
• How can this exercise foster greater integration
between water, spatial planning and other policy
areas?
Questions for discussion

11. Thank you
Emeline.Hassenforder@oecd.org