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M-POWER – CPWF RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM ON WATER GOVERNANCE

ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN WATER MANAGEMENT AND ADAPTATION TO WATER SCARCITY IN SREPOK RIVER

BASIN IN DAK LAK PROVINCE, VIETNAM

Prepared by: Nguyen Thi Thiem

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Common pool resource?

Rival Non-excludable

Everyone can come and use

What are the consequences?

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Overuse

Free rider

Consequences

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Collective action

Individual action

Governing a common water resource, what way do you want to choose?

How to get collective action?

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We needSocial capital

Trust,Belief

Reciprocity,Exchange

Groups,Networks

Rules,Norms

Cooperation,Collaboration

Collective action

Value/benefit

Social capital can help to solve problems of the commons

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Coping with water scarcity, what way do you want to choose?

Individual action

Collective action

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Social capital Water management, Adaptation to WS

Government management approach

Village A: Strong rules, many groups,

much exchange

Village B: Weak rules, few groups,

less exchange

Density Performance Functions

Decision making & plan

Water allocation

Resource mobilization

Maintain &protection

Who involved Mechanisms Outcomes

Comparative case study

Influencing factors?

Differences and impacts?

Water scarcity context

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Communal water-port of the village

Self-governance by community based on traditional institutionsPreliminary findings:

Annual ceremony of M Nong people

Social capital

Who involved?

Mechanisms?

Outcomes?

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Group of neighbor households or relatives sharing a drilled well

A drilled well

HH 1

HH 8

HH 7

HH 6

HH 5

HH 2

HH 3

HH 4

Social capital

Who involved?

Mechanisms?

Outcomes?

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StreamHH 2

HH 1

HH 3

HH 4

HH 5

Cooperated by households who have coffee gardens far from the stream

Social capital

Who involved?

Mechanisms?

Outcomes?

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Cooperated by households who have rice fields and coffee gardens that can not access surface water

Common owned digging pond of households

Coffee gardens

Rice fields HH 1

HH 2

HH 3

HH 4

Social capital

Who involved?

Mechanisms?

Outcomes?

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Cooperated by households who have rice fields far from the dam

Common owned dike

HH 1 HH 2 HH 3 HH 4 HH 5 HH 6

Social capital

Who involved?

Mechanisms?

Outcomes?

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Irrigation managed by local government

Who involved?

Mechanisms?

Outcomes?

Social capital based management

Differences and impacts?

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To fight

Thank you for your attention and comments

“Collective action key on water”