Towards an appropriate institution for water resources management

• Vupenyu Dzingirai, CASS.

Institutions and objective • Team’s interest in the model is not

merely academic.

• Interest derives from a conviction that institutions are charters for accessing water resources with a bearing on livelihoods.

• This is the reason we were interested in – Identifying , developing and

propagating

the institutional model

Structure of presentation....

• The institutional component is made up of 3 related fragments

i. background and context.ii. The processual

component iii.The institutional model

proper. I deal with (ii).Rationale: methodology

=model

The experience in developing the model

• CASS and MCC failed to deliver on the model .

• With less than 8 months to go, there was no model..

• An embarrassing matter

Consequences: introspection

• Failure led to a search for reasons.

• Introspection• Called for the

Beitbridge Workshop.

Resolution of the B.B.Workshop

Many things resolved but 2 critical.

(i) Need to immediately create and intensify partnerships. Anti -Bond

(ii) Need to develop a resource based plan and budget

No time to work on the details

Operationalising the Recommendations

St Lucial Park Workshop• The workshop = plan

and budget of activities.

• Consultative Workshops were key components

• The plan was modified to suit available had failed to deliver.

Byo Workshop

• Deliberately sited in Byo.

• This was held to finalise field plans

• Decision on Wards ,etc Venues, Logistics.

• ZINWA was tasked to handle the field activities, based on their resources .

The UZ Workshop

This was a technical event.The aim was to reflect on

workshops’philosophy • Researcher centric? • Practitioner tilted ?• Or populism and idyllic The Workshop agreed on the

principles and strategy to follow in the Workshops

• Ours would be co-learning workshops characterised by 3 things.

Characteristic 1- Guided facilitation

• Rather there would be guided facilitations.

• The facilitators would literally not stand up, but sit among people... Very close to people.

Characteristic 2: Structured learning

• n • The learning workshops would be structured, breaking people into thematic working groups.

• 1Maping group, 2.users gp ; 3.Institutions gp 4.Gender grp

Characteristic 3- Feedback and Iterations

• The learning workshops would involve reporting at all level .

• Reason : accountability and feedback

Operational problems.....

Food security... ..and unmanageable crowds

But, ...Results and Experience

• Fulfiling experience – Fun! Meat– Building of Relationships

intra-&inter

• Relationship responsible for data build up

• significance

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