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Desecuritization as a Foundation for Benefit-Sharing:
Lessons from the Okavango River Basin
Mekong River Commission Forum29 November 2005
Chiang RaiThailand
Dr. Anthony TurtonGibb-SERA Chair in Integrated Water Resource Management
[email protected]: Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters
www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu
© AR Turton, 2005.
Why should I worry about the future? What is in it for me?
The only thing we can change is the future. We are also going to live the
rest of our lives there…. So we better get it right!
Layout of Presentation
• Okavango River Basin• Securitization• Desecuritization• Benefit-Sharing• Conclusion
500 10000
Kilometres
N
Shared River Basins
Africa’s shared river basins contain:
• 61 % of the area
• 77 % of the people
• 93 % of the water
© Pete Ashton
100200300400500600700800900
10001250150020002500
Mean AnnualRainfall (mm)
0 250 500 km
NAMIBIA
BOTSWANA
SOUTHAFRICA
ZAMBIA
ZIMBABWE
ANGOLA
D. R. C. TANZANIA
MOZABIQUE
SWAZILAND
LESOTHO
MALAWI
= 860 mm isohyet
= World average rainfall
MEAN ANNUAL
RAINFALL
SADC Average Annual Rainfall = 948 mm
© Pete Ashton
Cuvelai
Kunene
Zambezi
Limpopo
PunguéBuziSave-Runde
Orange Maputo
Incomati
Umbeluzi
Okavango/Makgadikgadi
Congo
Nile
Lake Chad
NamibiaBotswana
SouthAfrica
Congo (DRC)
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Lesotho
Swaziland
Malawi
Mozambique
Angola
250 5000
Kilometres
N
Rovuma
WATER TRANSFERS
IN SOUTHERN
AFRICA
Existing water transfer scheme
Proposed new water transfer scheme
© Pete Ashton
Map sourced
from GEF Report on Okavango
Delta Study
100 km
N
ZAMBIA
Boteti River basin
ZIMBABWE
NAMIBIA
ANGOLA
BOTSWANA R.S.A.
Deception Pan basin
Ntwetwe Pan basin
Sowa Pan basin
Okavango Basin
Lake Ngami
Okwa R.
Nata R.
Omatako R.
Cubango R.
Okavango Delta
Cuito R.
Kavango R.
Cuando R.
Chobe R.
Zambezi R.
Okavango River Basin and Makgadikgadi Catchment
Securitization
• Linkage between perceptions of national security (survival) with water security
• Driven by a specific Threat Perception• Shifts water resource management out of the
domain of the Technocrat into the domain of the Securocrat
• Data becomes classified as Secret• National interests dominate the agenda• Regional integration is undermined• Zero-sum in outcome
Desecuritization
• Politicization of water resource management • Changed posture based on different Threat
Perception• Shifts water resource management back into
the domain of the Technocrat • Data becomes accessible and institutionalized• National interests redefined in terms of
regionalism• Regional integration is stimulated• Plus-sum in outcome
Benefit-Sharing in the Okavango
• Cold War theatre of armed military confrontation
• Downstream reliance on ecological flows• Upstream need for rapid economic
development and post-conflict reconstruction• Possibility of paying upstream country not to
develop the resource• Needs robust institutional arrangement• Parallel National Action Approach
Parallel National Action Model
AWIRU© Anthony Turton
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WaterOther
WaterOther
WaterOther
WaterOther
WaterOther
OKACOM
OTHER
Possible PNA Model for OKACOM
AWIRU© Anthony Turton
Angola
Energy
Namibia Botswana
Tourism
Rural Development
Technical Committee (Engineers)
Inter-ministry Policy Coordination Unit
OKACOM
(National Commissioners)
Basin-wide Forum (Grass-roots representation)
Benefit-Sharing Model
W ater
E nergy
A ccess – Markets, Finance, Justice, Education
L and tenure
T echnology - economy
H ealth – human & ecosystem
Infrastructural Foundation
Policy / Legal Environment
Integration
Benefits
It is the normative aspects of the Policy / Legal Environment that enables Social Capital to be developed. This defines relationships and is the key for Benefit-Sharing.
Physical Capital
Social Capital
Human Capital
The water-energy nexus is particularly pertinent in the Mekong in light of the recent ADB report.
Benefit-Sharing in the Okavango
• Written up in Turton, A.R. & Earle, A. 2003. An Assessment of the Hydropolitical Dynamics of the Okavango River Basin. Paper presented at the 2nd Workshop of the Green Cross International Water for Peace Project on the Okavango River Basin, held at the Desert Research Foundation of Namibia, Gobabeb, Namibia from 23-25 February. Available from the Website http://www.up.ac.za/academic/libarts/polsci/awiru
Benefit-Sharing in the Okavango
• Written up in Turton, A.R. & Earle, A. 2003. Discussion Document on the Implications of International Treaties on the Development of a Management Regime for the Okavango River Basin. Deliverable D 6.2 of the Water and Ecosystem Resources in Rural Development (WERRD) Project. African Water Issues Research Unit (AWIRU). Pretoria University.
Benefit-Sharing in the Okavango
• Written up in Turton, A.R. & Earle, A. 2004. An Assessment of the Parallel National Action Model as a Possible Approach for the Integrated Management of the Okavango River Basin. Deliverable D6.2 of the Water Ecosystem Resources in Rural Development (WERRD) Project funded by the European Union. Available online at (http://www.okavangochallenge.com/okaweb/wp6/default00748.htm).
Benefit-Sharing in the Okavango
• Written up in Turton, A.R. & Earle, A. 2005. Public Participation in the Development of a Management Plan for an International River Basin: The Okavango Case. In Jansky, L. & Uitto, J.I. (Eds.) Enhancing Participation and Governance in Water Resources Management: Conventional Approaches and Information Technology. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.