Water Governance Principles

The IWRA and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) jointly hosted the first webinar of the year on “Water Governance Principles” on February 15th, 2018.

The OECD Water Governance Principles were designed to provide time and scale specific directions for governments to address present and future water concerns. These allow governments and the broader range of stakeholders to draft and implement effective, efficient, and inclusive water policies. This webinar explored places and ways that these principles contribute to robust water governance. The webinar topics included:

1. Addressing the policy-implementation gaps in water services: the key role of meso-institutions.
2. Stakeholder engagement in water governance as social learning: lessons from practice.
3. OECD principles on water governance in practice: an assessment of existing frameworks in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and South America.
4. The evolution of water governance in France from the 1960s: disputes as major drivers for radical changes within a consensual framework.

This 90-minute webinar was based on themes discussed in the special issue of our flagship publication, Water International and in our forthcoming policy brief. These additional resources are designed to help academics, dedicated practitioners, and policy professionals further explore these timely themes.