Presented at the 10th meeting of the Water Governance Initiative, 20 - 21 November 2017, Vienna

1. Manual on a human rights-based
approach (HRBA) to IWRM
Women and corruption in the
water sector
OECD WGI 10th biannual meeting
Dr Jenny Grönwall

2. HRBA to IWRM
• HRBA principles
• Water-related human rights under
international law
• The human rights to water and
sanitation
• Tools for ‘taking’ a HRBA with a river
basin perspective

3. Corruption: Relevant dynamics & rationales
 PrincipalAgent Model, Fraud Triangle, Institutionalized corruption (corruption as the
norm)
 Need or Greed-based?
Adding gender to the equation
 Fairer sex or fairer system?
 Risk aversion, opportunities and networks
 Sextortion: abuse of power where the currency
of the bribe is partly or wholly sexual favours
Empirical data from Bogotá & Johannesburg

4. HRBA: http://bit.ly/2hKOqvD
Corruption: http://bit.ly/2mwFU4Q