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People-centred integrated water resources management (IWRM) [Quality Assurance: Jeroen Ensink, Jeroen Warner, Kees Leedertse and Andrew Cotton]

Author(s): Butterworth, John  |  Ensink, Jeroen  |  Warner, Jeroen  |  Leedertse, Kees  |  Cotton, Andrew

Publisher: WEDC
Place of publication: Loughborough University, UK
Year: 2006

Series: WELL Fact Sheet
Collection(s): WELL

Links:

• http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/wedc/well/

Despite the guiding principles upon which is it is based, in reality people are rarely at the centre of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Or put another way, IWRM programmes are, in many respects, just "business as usual". This factsheet considers some of the different approaches to promoting stakeholder participation in IWRM, and especially entry-points and strategies for more bottom-up implementation of the concept. These alternative approaches include building IWRM principles into projects and programmes rather than focusing solely on the catchment level, using local laws and institutions as a basis for water management, linking to the domestic water sector's mission to supply water to all and responding to people's real demands for water. Links are provided in this factsheet to a variety of sources on innovative approaches to making IWRM more people-centred, practical and manageable to implement.

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