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Community-Based Principles for Negotiating Water Rights: Some Conjectures on Assumptions and Priorities

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Type: Conference Paper
Author: Bruns, Bryan
Conference: International Workshop on African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks for Rural Water Management in Africa
Location: Johannesburg, Africa
Conf. Date: 26-28 January
Date: 2005
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7977
Sector: Water Resource & Irrigation
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Subject(s): water resources
resource management
community participation
design principles
institutional design
CBRM
Abstract: "Increasing policy support for community-based natural resources management and institutional redesign has been followed by questioning of the feasibility, risks, and results of such approaches. The application of participatory approaches for improving basin-scale water governance would benefit from reconsideration in light of critical analysis of community-based natural resources management and institutional design principles for common-property resource management. Problems of pervasive politics and contextual contingency indicate the need for revising assumptions and expectations. A community perspective on the application of institutional design principles suggests distinct priorities from current policies for improving basin water allocation. Measures to support community involvement in basin water governance, such as legislation reform, legal empowerment, networking, advocacy, participatory planning, technical advice, and facilitation, may be more effective if fitted to community priorities in negotiating rights to water."

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