Process and aims of the working group 4

Equitable distribution of water rights

and access: water, poverty and gender

Dr. Gert Jan Veldwisch & Dr. Rutgerd BoelensIrrigation and Water Engineering Group

Erik HeijmansDirector of the BSc and MSc programmes International Land and Water Management

Practical set-up

Tuesday: - 2 sessions

Wednesday: - 1 session

- ICM strategies- market place

- 1 session

Thursday: - field day

Friday: - 1 session- presentations

Aims of the working group

Develop a basic research and action agenda on issues around inequitable access to water and decision making around access to water

To be able to do this:

Determine the issues and processes at stake

Draw lessons from existing action research programmes

Analysis of 6 cases

We will:

1. identify lines of division between water user groups,

2. define processes of exclusion from access to both water and decision making processes,

3. explore the underlying structures that lead to unequal access to water, and

4. identify the existing and possible directions in which solutions to these conflicts could be found.

Analysis of 6 cases

Analysis of 6 cases

Practical set-up – first part

Tuesday morning: Hans Komakech (Tanzania)

Tuesday afternoon: Thierry Lassalle (Rwanda)Pascaline

Babadankpodji (Benin) Francis Nkoka (Mozambique)

Wednesday: Hervé Levite (Burkina Faso) Ignatius Gutsa (Zimbabwe)

Synthesis on the 6 cases

Practical set-up – second part

Wednesday afternoon: Discussions on ICM presentations

Sharing of experiences

Friday morning: Finalise discussions on research and action agenda

Plenary presentation of the results