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How Can International Donors Promote Transboundary Water Management?
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| Author
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Mostert, E.
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| Editor or Organisation
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DIE-GDI
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| Year
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2005
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| Keywords
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transboundary water management, development cooperation, information, capacity building, donor coordination
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publication
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| Language
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English
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| Table of Contents
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1. Introduction 3
2. Transboundary water management 4
2.1 Driving forces 5
2.2 Stages 5
2.3 The “agreement” 8
2.4 Stakeholders 10
2.5 The role of information 12
2.6 Experiences 13
3. The roles of development cooperation 16
3.1 Information sources 17
3.2 Where to intervene? 18
3.3 When and how to intervene? 20
3.4 Exchange of expertise and capacity building 22
3.5 Direct intervention 23
3.6 Capital 25
3.7 Financial support 26
3.8 Donor coordination 27
4. Recommendations for development cooperation 28
Bibliography 31
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| Abstract
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This paper discusses how international donors can promote the development of transboundary water management. It assumes, first, that cooperation will take place whenever the major stakeholders consider cooperation to be a better option than non-cooperation. The perceptions and motivations of the stakeholders are therefore crucial. Secondly, this paper assumes that the major stakeholders are not “states”, but specific groups and individuals: individual politicians, sectoral government bureaucracies, regional and local governments, farmers, electricity companies, etc. Some of these may be involved in the international negotiations themselves, others may be needed to get international Agreements ratified or implemented, and still others may be affected by transboundary water Management but lack the means to exert any influence.
The role of international donors in transboundary water management is limited, but can still be significant.
— support the conclusion of an international treaty,
— support the resolution of the underlying issues and promote action on the
ground,
— support social, economic and / or political change in the basin,
— provide continuing support after conclusion of an agreement.
The instruments that can be used include:
— exchange of expertise and capacity building
— provision of capital: conditional grants and loans and debt relief,
— financial support for specific activities,
— direct intervention: convening, facilitation, mediatoin
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| Permission
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Yes
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| Category
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Resource Management
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