The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and the Danish Development Research Network (DDRN) have the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar in the 2008 Poverty and Environment Seminar Series with Rutgerd Boelens on:
Local Water Governance in Developing Countries, Part II
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 13.30-16.30
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
Summary of the seminar
Background
Water governance is becoming an increasingly significant issue in development agendas at local, national and international levels. Recent years have seen the introduction of water reforms in many developing countries, and most recently the climate change debate has highlighted the importance of ensuring viable frameworks for governing and allocating water resources among the many different stakeholders involved.
The new water laws and their associated approaches are often based on the introduction of new permit systems, and/or new institutional arrangements such as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). But what is actually the place for existing local institutions and customary rights in these new approaches? Do the new permit systems support pro-poor allocation of water resources at local levels? And to what extent can approaches such as IWRM effectively address local water conflicts and water cooperation? These and related issues are addressed through two seminars as part of the ongoing DIIS and DDRN Poverty and Environment Seminar Series.
This second session will take outset in a presentation by Rutgerd Boelens, who is a well-known specialist on the politics of water rights and its implications for poverty and water governance. Rutgerd Boelens has been a member of the Irrigation and Water Engineering group at Wageningen University since 1998, where he has worked extensively with partners in Latin America and elsewhere on water rights, water policies and institutional development. He is the organizer and coordinator of a number of major research and capacity development programmes on local water rights and associated issues of identity and legal complexity in water governance. This includes a role as General Coordinator of the program on Water Law and Indigenous Rights (WALIR), and organization of training and capacity development programmes in several Latin American countries. Rutgerd Boelens is author of a number of books on water rights and water governance, including most recently the book The Rules of the Game and the Game of the Rules: Nationalization and Resistance in Andean Water Control (University of Wageningen, 2008).
Programme
13.30-13.35 Welcome
13.35-14.20 Poverty and Water Rights in Local Water Governance
Rutgerd Boelens, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
14.20-15.00 Plenary Discussion
Discussants: Elsebeth Tarp, Senior Advisor, Danida, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Denmark
Helle Munk Ravnborg, Senior Researcher, DIIS
15.00-15.20 Coffee Break
15.20-16.00 Group Discussions
Participants break into groups to discuss implications for
research and practice
16.00-16.25 Plenary Discussion of Group Findings
16.25-16.30 Closure of Seminar
This is the last of six seminars in the 2008 Poverty and Environment Seminar Series,
which is organised by the DIIS research unit on Natural Resources and Poverty and DDRN.
Practical Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use below online registration form no later than Monday, 8 December 2008 at 12.00 noon. |
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