​New project examines water governance reform in Nicaragua and Ecuador

As many other countries in Latin America and beyond, Nicaragua and Ecuador have recently reformed their water governance framework. Together with colleagues at IXMATI, Nicaragua and IEE, Ecuador, Helle Munk Ravnborg from DIIS, analyses the political economy of the implementation of water governance reform and examines the consequences for territorial inequality.

On 27 May 2015 she gave a presentation, entitled Water governance reform in the context of inequality: Securing rights or legitimising dispossession? based on some of the initial results from this work at the World Water Congress 2015 at the session on Water Law: Legal and regulatory approaches to water resources management on the national level, chaired by the International Association for Water Law.

The project forms part of the programme Territorial Cohesion for Development, coordinated by Rimisp-Latin American Center for Rural Development, and is supported by IDRC, Canada. The project runs until the end of 2015.