Final Programme Beyond the River - World Water Week

Special Sessions
Multi-scale Water Governance
Convenors: The Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture (CA) and
the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF)
As water moves through the landscape, it presents opportunities
and/or imposes sustainable development
challenges at different scales – local, catchment, sub-basin,
basin, national and regional. A suite of governance
mechanisms applied at different scales are required to
address conflicts associated with the development, allocation,
use and management of water resources by diverse
stakeholders with different perceptions, interests,
values and influence.
The objective of this seminar is to explore opportunities
for ensuring that institutional mechanisms applied at
different scales are coherent, supportive and lead to improving
water governance. The seminar presentations will
(a) highlight governance challenges and opportunities at
different scales, (b) illustrate how governance at one scale
affects governance at the next scale, and (c) share success
stories in multi-scale water governance. After the presentations,
the participants will discuss the way forward with
reference to (a) dissemination and application of available
knowledge and (b) knowledge gaps and priorities.
Programme Tuesday 22 August, 09:00–12:00
Folkets Hus, Room 203
Co-chairs: Dr. Claudia Ringler, International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI), USA; Dr. Francis Gichuki, IWMI
Sri Lanka; and Dr. Veliyil Vasu Sugunan, WorldFish Center
(ICLARM), Egypt
09:00 Opening Remarks
09:05 Indigenous Voices in Transboundary Water Management,
Limpopo River Basin, South Africa. Dr. Jaqui Goldin, African
Water Issues Research Unit, University of Pretoria, South Africa
09:25 Governance and Poverty, Insights from the SCALES Project
in the Andes. Dr. Nancy Johnson, Leader, Water and People in
Catchments Research Theme, CGIAR Challenge Program on
Water and Food; International Center for Tropical Agriculture
(CIAT), Colombia
09:45 Governance and Poverty, Insights from the SCALES
Project in the Nyando Sub-basin of Nile Basin. Dr. Brent
Swallow, Principal Economist and Theme Leader, World
Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
10:05 Discussion
10:20 Coffee Break
10:50 Governance Issues Viewed Through a Fishing Net:
Including Fisherfolk in the Debate. Dr. Christophe Béné,
Portfolio Director, West and Central Africa, WorldFish
Center, Egypt
11:10 The Need for Adaptive and Multi-scale Governance in
Times of Increasing Uncertainties. Prof. Claudia Pahl-Wostl,
University of Osnabrück, Germany
11:30 Discussion
11:45 Concluding Remarks
12:00 End of Seminar
Photo: Mats Lannerstad
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