Towards a database on water governance practices oecd secretariat

1. TOWARDS A
DATABASE ON
WATER
GOVERNANCE
PRACTICES
8th WGI Meeting
12-13 January 2017, Rabat

2. • Survey on 10 multiple-choice/ranking/open
questions in 10’
• 164 respondents :
o 28% of responses from WGI members
o 9% of anonymous responses
• Respondents are mostly representatives from
academia, civil society and central governments
Insights from the Short Survey

3. Do you refer to practices to help your
decisions / policy choices related to
water?

4. What are underlying needs about
practices?

5. What type of practice do you look for?

6. • Learning experience
• Quality over quantity of practices
• Evolving practices that showcase
progress achieved over time are of
particular interest
• Expectations to learn from failures of
practices
Take-away messages

7. STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Processed
Reviewed
Organised
Evolving and
interactive
Too lengthy
Unclear
Of different quality
PRACTICES
Inventory of existing databases
Mono-lingual

8. Take away messages
Content
• User friendly
• Screened, peer-reviewed and vetted
• Narrative
Design
• Advanced search engine, multi-lingual
• Functionalities: comments field?
Programming interface? Open source?

9. Pilot-testing the template
Title of the practice Practice provider
From Conflict to Collaboration: The case study
of Lake Shiwa in the Republic of Korea
K-water
National Study on Water Supply and Sanitation
in Spain
Spanish Association of Water Supply and
Sanitation
Benchmark Dash Board Dutch Water Authorities Association of Dutch Water Authorities
Fighting Corruption in the Construction of Large
Dams: The Ziga Dam Experience in Burkina Faso
Water Integrity Network
Water Funds in Latin America: Camboriu Water
Fund in Brazil
The Nature Conservancy
A Water Governance Assembly at Regional Level
in France
Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur regional
authority
Biomethane km 0 in Italy Gruppo CAP

10. • What should be criteria to assess the
quality practices ?
• How to review and draw lessons from the
practices within the WGI ?
• How should we organise the collection of
practices ?
Group discussion