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Sharing the benefits from river basin management From theory to practice
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Sharing the
benefits from
river basin
management
From theory
to practice
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Who is this publication for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Benefit Sharing in Water Governance and Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Key principles underpinning benefit sharing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
From Theory to Practice: Operationalising Benefit Sharing in Six Steps. . . 11
STEP 1: Identifying stakeholders and mapping interests
and influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
STEP 2: Identifying the range of existing and potential benefits. . . . . . 13
STEP 3: Building benefit enhancing scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
STEP 4: Estimating costs and benefits from future scenarios. . . . . . . . 13
STEP 5: Negotiating benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
STEP 6: Setting up institutional arrangements and implementation
mechanisms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Practical tools and tips for implementation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Training Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Acknowledgements The development of this primer is a product of a collaborative effort between many colleagues, partners and basin stakeholders. From IUCN, many thanks to: Mark Smith, Isabelle Fauconnier, Jerome Koundouno, Stefano Barchiesi, Emilio Cobo, Laura Piñeiros, John Owino, Vishwaranjan Sinha, Raphael Glemet, Rebecca Welling, Maria Carreño Lindelien, Claire Warmenbol, Diego Jara, James Dalton, Maria Ana Borges, Barbara Nakangu, Alejandro Iza, and Phil Riddell (external IUCN consultant). We are grateful to the Oxfam TROSA Programme and stakeholders of the Meghna Basin, as well as the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi River Basin for participating in the piloting of the benefit-sharing framework under the IUCN BRIDGE project. Many thanks to Natalie Degger and Mish Hamid from GEF IW:LEARN, and the GEF IW:LEARN Benefit-Sharing workshop participants in Cartagena, Colombia, and Bangkok, Thailand for their participation and feedback on the benefit sharing exercises. This primer was produced with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) under the BRIDGE ‘Building River Dialogue and Governance’ programme. Abbreviations BOAT Benefit Opportunities Assessment Tool BRIDGE Building River Dialogue and Governance IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN ELC Environmental Law Centre LAGO Legal Assessment on Water Governance Opportunities TIDE Transboundary Instruments Development Tool WANI Water and Nature Initiative
iv SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE Indigenous women wash laundry, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala © Shutterstock/Lucy Brown
Introduction
As demand for freshwater increases approaches and social capital are vital
and climate change affects the water to drive change in how we share bene-
cycle, there is increased pressure on our fits and co-benefits across river basins
freshwater systems from competing globally.
needs for drinking water, food, energy
and industrial production as well as to “Fundamentally, the governance
safeguard underpinning ecosystem ser- and management of water
vices. Sustained modification of natural resources needs to be just as
landscapes over time has compromised interconnected as the natural
the services and benefits that humans system itself, flowing from
derive from ecosystems – a by-product source to sea and integrating
of population growth and economic a rich diversity of landscapes,
development coupled with poor envi- actors and processes.”
ronmental stewardship. Nearly the en-
tire world population uses freshwater Alejandro Iza, Director IUCN
that has been compromised by human Environmental Law Centre
activities, and 82% of the population
is served by rivers that have been ex- Within this context, over the past
posed to high levels of modification and two decades, IUCN’s Global Water
other associated impacts upstream. Programme, working closely with IUCN
Regional Offices/Programmes and the
The modification of freshwater systems IUCN Environmental Law Centre have
leaves less water available to sustain spearheaded work on water coop-
ecosystem services and the benefits eration and diplomacy, exploring the
they bring to both nature and people. complexities of transboundary water
The benefits at stake include the ser- governance systems, multi-sectoral
vices provided by healthy agricultural and multi-level opportunities for col-
systems, soil biodiversity, fisheries, en- laboration and the sharing of benefits
ergy and tourism; protection from wa- within and across borders to man-
ter-related hazards; health of riverine age water resources sustainably. With
populations; preservation of aquatic transboundary basins providing water
biodiversity; cross-border trade; and to nearly 3 billion people worldwide,
reduced risk of conflict. The impetus cooperation between states for shared
to manage shared water resources co- governance and management is an im-
operatively, whether at the local, na- perative. Our experience demonstrates
tional or transboundary level has never that successful management of water
been greater. Knowledge, innovative resources at the transboundary level,
SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE 1
Figure 1: BRIDGE - Strategic process towards water cooperation in transboundary basins
is rooted in multi-level governance sys- multi-stakeholder decision-making pro-
tems that work across scales, stake- cesses, potential win-win pathways can
holder groups and sectors. Multi-level be identified that combine a common
governance ensures inclusive stake- vision with mutually recognised shared
holder engagement and devolves de- benefits and a rational prioritisation of
cision-making to the level at which it is equitable, economically advantageous
most pertinent to the social and eco- and sustainable basin development (see
logical systems being governed. Figure 1). Fundamental to this is the no-
tion that inclusion and equitable sharing
Inherent to the work on benefit sharing of resources strengthen sustainability.
has been the analysis of the associated Indeed, the power of a benefit sharing
trade-offs that come with managing mul- approach is especially apparent when
tiple, and often competing, water needs taking the long view: upfront invest-
and demands. IUCN demonstrates that ment may be higher but long term gain
through fostering stronger cross-sec- is ensured through collaborative plan-
toral collaboration and more transparent, ning and management.
Who is this publication for
This benefit sharing approach re- stakeholder engagement, assessments
sponds to a demand for practical and and knowledge building, to enhance co-
collaborative tools that lead to optimal operation within countries and across
sharing of water benefits. The con- state borders for sustainable river ba-
ceptual framing follows a process of sin management. This introductory
2 SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
document aims to provide water gov- combine the work of governments with
ernance practitioners with an alterna- communities’ cooperation at the local
tive way to promote negotiation and level. At the transboundary level, wa-
set up benefit sharing exercises, invit- ter diplomacy has to happen under the
ing all concerned parties and exploring authority of national governments but
the needs, basin intervention alterna- water agreements need the accord of
tives and benefit sharing opportunities water users. Taking these points into ac-
within and across basins. An accom- count, IUCN’s benefit sharing approach
panying comprehensive training pack- demonstrates a flexibility that consid-
age (details on p.17) gives practition- ers the range of political, environmen-
ers guidance to develop and facilitate tal and socio-economic contexts that
processes that improve understanding practitioners will be working in.
of the challenges, trade-offs and ben-
efits faced by different stakeholders, Critically, this benefit sharing process
within a workshop context (details on relies on informed dialogue that re-
p.17). This is especially aimed at those quires practitioners to have an un-
who find themselves working in com- derstanding that is context specific,
plex basins where water is shared be- including of the basin dynamics, so-
tween various interests, stakeholders cio-environmental challenges, the in-
and runs over either county, state or stitutional setting, potential areas of
national borders. conflicts, interest groups, and so on.
This understanding is necessary to en-
Globally, basins are all at different levels sure their ability to identify, issues that
of development and institutional and might arise in advance. Such an under-
political contexts with different needs, standing will help to better determine
pressures and demands placed on re- the way to engage different stakehold-
sources and stakeholders. Effective ers, to present reliable information and
water governance systems need to conduct the process in an optimal way.
Benefit sharing workshop in the Lake Chad region ©IUCN\Diego Jara
SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE 3
4 SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE River landscape, Vang Vieng, Laos © Shutterstock/akedesign
Benefit Sharing in Water
Governance and
Management
Despite the pressures river basins negotiation of shared waters and in-
worldwide are under from increasing volves any action designed to change
demands for water allocation from (optimise) the allocation of costs and
multiple users (including irrigation, en- benefits associated with cooperation
ergy, drinking water supply, industrial (Sadoff & Grey, 2005). It can be de-
use, environment, etc.), they are often fined as
governed by contradictory rules and
mechanisms shared between a range “a process where riparians
of institutions under different man- cooperate in optimising
dates. While some river basins have and equitably dividing the
sound governance structures and legal goods, products and services
frameworks to ensure the equitable connected directly, or indirectly,
and sustainable use of water resourc- to the watercourse, or arising
es, others are working towards tack- from the use of its water”
ling the diversity of stakeholder needs
and (re)allocation of resources within a Hensengerth et al., 2012;
context of over-exploitation and envi- Sadoff & Grey, 2002
ronmental degradation.
This enables countries and basins
It can therefore be hard to understand to focus on a flexible and potentially
who gets what when water is allocat- greater range of benefits from trade-
ed. This is a nexus challenge; trying to offs, optimising partnerships in water
balance the different demands and use (Dombrowsky, 2009).
trade-offs so that everyone benefits.
It is important to explore these trade- A focus on sharing benefits rather than
offs, looking at how water is used and water volumes can release countries
to identify both the positive and neg- from a zero-sum game over a single,
ative implications and associated ben- finite resource. Furthermore, good
efits, and how these can be distrib- ecosystem management can produce
uted under alternative development a range of co-benefits such as reduced
scenarios. risk of water-related disasters and re-
silience to climate change (see figure
Benefit sharing represents an alter- 2 below). Ecosystem services linked
native and inclusive approach to the to a watercourse or its uses are critical
SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE 5Figure 2 Overview of benefits obtained from improved water management and enhanced trust
in and beyond river basins (Source: Adapted by IUCN from UNECE, 2015)
components in the sustainability of Benefit sharing is a key instrument for
a river basin, securing water in ade- good water governance as users will
quate quantity and quality for diverse share water cooperatively when they
purposes. At the transboundary level, believe it is their best option. Since ben-
cooperation in developing adaptation efit sharing looks at a variety of bene-
strategies can lead to mutual benefits fits, stakeholders at multiple levels, and
in water management, for instance in- local and national interests (Sadoff et.
centivising better communication be- al., 2008) it enables a basin-wide plan-
tween riparian States, and collabora- ning perspective, which not only allows
tion between stakeholders (Sanchez & for better coordination of management
Roberts, 2014). and development but also provides a
greater scope for optimising resource
use, identifying ways to increase the
6 SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICEoverall benefits. Benefit sharing can useful to orient the thinking of practi-
be applied at different levels and for tioners and policy-makers, there is the
different situations, it can be adapted need for practical tools that are easy to
to analyse a single water project (e.g. tailor to specific basin contexts to sup-
a multipurpose dam), or to catalyse port stakeholders in their move from
agreements in a watershed within a dialogue to decision-making. Practical
country, or a transboundary basin un- tools are key for action.
der a participatory approach (Geneva
Water Hub, 2016). In response to this demand, IUCN de-
veloped this outcome-driven approach
However, the management of (shared) to applying benefit sharing in water
river basins is complex – it must adapt governance across and within river
and evolve to multiple levels of gov- basins. It covers the practice of de-
ernance, often within changing politi- veloping a benefit sharing agreement,
cal landscapes, socio-economic needs, starting from initial stakeholder and
development priorities, population benefits mapping to discussing trade-
growth and climatic conditions. Basins offs and possible scenarios, as well as
are dynamic, and so are benefits and providing guidance on how to navigate
costs from (mis-)using water in a given negotiating benefit sharing in mul-
basin. Several conceptual frameworks, ti-stakeholder contexts. It does this by
approaches or tools, with different foci adding an inclusion lens to traditional
and methodologies have been devel- water governance negotiations, exam-
oped by researchers, donors, river ba- ining the needs, interests and roles of
sin organisations and regional econom- different stakeholder groups, especial-
ic commissions, to approach benefit ly those that are most vulnerable such
sharing in the context of the manage- as women, youth and indigenous peo-
ment of shared waters (UNECE, 2015; ples. Importantly, the benefit sharing
Leb et.al. 2018; Nile Basin Initiative, process can be adapted to all scales,
2016; USAID, 2009). In IUCN’s experi- dealing not only with transboundary
ence, whilst such conceptual frame- issues (traditionally where most bene-
works and methodologies which link fit sharing work has focused) but also
to hydrological and economic mode- issues at sub-national, basin, sub-basin
ling (Arjoon et.al. 2016), are extremely and local levels.
SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE 7Key principles underpinning
benefit sharing
The following key principles are essential and integral to the benefit sharing ap-
proach, underpinning both theory and practice. These principles should be ad-
hered to when working through the Six-Step benefit sharing process outlined in
the next section.
Creating an enabling environment for inclusive stakeholder
engagement, participation and decision-making
The benefit sharing process upholds the process proactively engages with
inclusive decision-making by engaging groups at risk of marginalisation such
and paying attention to the voices of di- as women, youth and indigenous pop-
verse groups (and forms of knowledge), ulations. In turn, any decisions made
that are socially and culturally appro- take into account the views expressed
priate, and taking into account power through transparent and participatory
dynamics within and between groups. consultation processes and where nec-
Rights-holders and stakeholders have essary, free, prior and informed con-
access to information concerning the sent is secured and maintained for de-
environment and natural resources and cisions concerning indigenous peoples
furthermore, have the capacities and and other customary rights-holders,
support they need to participate in de- regarding their lands or their resources.
cision-making, including through ap-
propriate representation. In particular,
Practising multi-level governance
By strengthening water governance governed, with particular attention to
capacity at multiple levels linkages and empowering the roles and authority
synergies can be maximised between of local communities in water govern-
high level agreements and local level ance. At the transboundary level, while
ones, in a dynamic process. This ena- cooperation operates under the ulti-
bles decisions to be taken at the low- mate authority of sovereign States, it is
est possible level appropriate to the important that actors1 involved in or af-
social and ecological systems being fecting water governance at different
1 Including municipalities, provinces, civil society and private sector.
8 SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICElevels cooperate and coordinate to institutions, enable consultative, joint-
ensure coherent strategies and man- ly-owned decisions, and facilitate mul-
agement practices using both formal ti-stakeholder negotiations of benefit
and informal mechanisms. Multi-level sharing agreements.
governance should build on existing
Sustainable and Equitably Shared Resources
Stakeholders responsible for water re- imposed to safeguard the resource
sources management need to have base appropriate measures should be
the necessary resources to carry out taken to minimise and/or compensate
sustainable management and govern- the losses. This echoes the Convention
ance activities, be it financial, both in on the Law of the Non-navigational
terms of revenue or livelihoods, but Uses of International Watercourses
also in terms of improved capacity and Adopted by the General Assembly
access to information and technology. of the United Nations on 21 May 1997,
The equitable sharing of the benefits which highlights the key concepts of
generated from water resources pro- equitable and reasonable utilisation,
vides incentives to protect and sustain- not inflicting harm, and achieving win-
ably manage these resources. Where win outcomes for river basin manage-
losses are incurred due to restrictions ment and governance systems.
BRIDGE Training Workshop in Quito, Ecuador © IUCN/Diego Jara
SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE 910 SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE Lake Titicaca, Peru © Shutterstock/Photo 593
From Theory to Practice:
Operationalising Benefit
Sharing in Six Steps
Building on experience and learning sequential considerations, and associat-
from the Water and Nature Initiative ed practical steps that basins at differ-
(WANI), the toolkit publications SHARE, ent stages of development, cooperation
RULE and NEGOTIATE on transbounda- and shared management can apply and
ry benefit sharing, and the Building River follow. These steps, outlined below, can
Dialogue and Governance (BRIDGE) ini- be applied in local, national and trans-
tiative, IUCN’s Global Water Programme boundary contexts, and are aimed at
and Environmental Law Centre have working at all scales.
developed a Six-Step Framework to
operationalising benefit sharing. This This benefit sharing approach presents
has developed out of two decades of water governance practitioners (includ-
engagement across 20+ basins global- ing local and national government, wa-
ly (including 14 transboundary basins) ter authorities, municipalities, civil soci-
through facilitated workshops, stake- ety organisations, NGOs, private sector
holder consultations and research. and business etc.) with an alternative
and inclusive way to promote dialogue
The approach is currently being pilot- and negotiation. The process enables a
ed through BRIDGE and will continue participatory and transparent dialogue,
to be improved upon to ensure practi- empowering all concerned parties, and
tioners have access to a tried and tested exploring the needs and benefit sharing
approach. It functions as a roadmap of opportunities within and across basins,
Publications available from www.iucn.org/theme/water/resources/wani-toolkits
SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE 11while facilitating the understanding the water flows across counties, states
around the challenges and trade-offs or national borders and jurisdictions and
faced by different stakeholders. This is es- is shared or contested, between various
pecially helpful to those who find them- interests and stakeholders.
selves working in complex basins, where
Figure 3: Six steps to benefit sharing in river basins
STEP 1: Identifying stakeholders and mapping
interests and influence
Engagement and effective participa- If done well it ensures that all relevant
tion of all relevant stakeholders in de- stakeholders are included from the out-
cision-making processes enables con- set and able to participate. Reviewing
structive dialogue, builds trust and stakeholder groups’ interests and in-
creates the conditions for the adoption fluence is a good way to better under-
of sustainable solutions for water man- stand the power dynamics in the basin
agement e.g. a reduction in water con- and associated potential challenges
sumption or more efficient agricultur- and solutions to sharing benefits. A
al systems. Stakeholder identification full overview of the basins stakehold-
and corresponding mapping of inter- ers and their interests and influence is
ests/influence is a key part of build- necessary to build into Step 3 ‘Building
ing an equitable cooperation process. benefit enhancing scenarios’.
12 SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICESTEP 2: Identifying the range of existing and
potential benefits
River basins offer different types of visualising alternative solutions to chal-
benefits that can be shared. This goes lenges. To get to this, a range of rele-
much beyond the allocation of volumes vant sectors and stakeholders should
of water to stakeholders and riparian be represented in the process of iden-
parties. Instead, it relies on the full iden- tifying benefits – these include, among
tification of specific economic, social, others, agriculture, environment, forest-
environmental, political, cultural, and ry, finance, planning, fisheries, tourism,
other benefits that can be derived from local government, mining, hydropower
good water cooperation in a particular and so on. Once these existing and po-
basin. Identifying the full range of ben- tential benefits are mapped out, these
efits provides a more flexible frame- can build into Step 3 ‘Building benefit
work and can increase possibilities for enhancing scenarios’.
collaboration across sectors as well as
STEP 3: Building benefit enhancing scenarios
Identifying benefit enhancing sce- certain projects over others or certain
narios is an opportunity to continue combinations of projects, while using a
working with the relevant stakeholders cross-sectoral and multi-level coopera-
and sectors to produce a set of alter- tion perspective. In this Step, the use of
native pathways. The practical skills a Benefit Opportunities Matrix allows
associated with this Step involve joint for the facilitation of dialogue and joint
qualitative analysis of benefits and im- qualitative analysis of options, to joint-
pacts from existing and/or proposed ly arrive at a set of preferred opportu-
new uses of water in a basin. The aim nities, validated and negotiated by the
of the exercise is to develop a more stakeholders themselves.
in-depth and shared understanding
of the trade-offs involved in choosing
STEP 4: Estimating costs and benefits from
future scenarios
With an agreed set of possible bene- be undertaken. Several methods to val-
fit-enhancing scenarios, based on Step ue and distribute benefits and costs
3 outcomes, a quantitative assessment exist, with different data needs. Many
of all identified benefits and costs can – but not all – benefits can undergo a
SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE 13quantitative assessment depending on hold the knowledge and tools, to bet-
the ambition of the cooperation pro- ter understand and discuss the links
cess and the available budget, exist- between economic considerations and
ing data and expertise. Quantifying the water governance.
costs enables relevant stakeholders to
STEP 5: Negotiating benefits
Fair, effective and sustainable man- to ensure that the stakeholders have all
agement of shared benefits requires the information needed to take part in
negotiation to ensure that the needs, an informed negotiation, as consensus
priorities and interests of all relevant building can only be achieved with a
stakeholders are recognised, thorough- proper understanding of the interests,
ly discussed and met to the degree challenges, needs and priorities of all
possible. In the previous steps, par- relevant stakeholder groups. Through
ticipants have identified the relevant this participatory and inclusive negoti-
stakeholders, the possible benefits and ation the goal of this step is to arrive at
costs per stakeholder, various bene- an agreement which can then be put
fit enhancing scenarios as well as cost into practice in Step 6.
analysis of these. These steps are meant
STEP 6: Setting up institutional arrangements
and implementation mechanisms
Successful implementation of benefit or implementation mechanism should
sharing agreements requires functional begin. Final agreements should include
institutions and agreed implementation provisions for public participation,
mechanisms. Once the negotiation of compensation schemes, accountability,
a benefit sharing agreement between monitoring and enforcement mecha-
stakeholders is completed, the devel- nisms as well as financing frameworks.
opment of an institutional arrangement
Practical tools and tips for implementation
The Six-Step framework on benefit shar- IUCN has learned through its work on
ing presents a practical process for ba- water diplomacy and sustainable ba-
sin stakeholders to engage with around sin management that one of the best
shared water resources management. ways for learning and ensuring uptake
14 SHARING THE BENEFITS FROM RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT · FROM THEORY TO PRACTICEof new concepts relating to the gov- Political landscape: are there politi-
ernance of shared waters is to engage cal tensions between countries, stake-
stakeholders in practical role-play ex- holders, or parties? How comfortable
ercises through which they can de- are the different stakeholders to come
tach from their real-life roles/positions. together to take about basin develop-
To this end, IUCN has developed a set ment? Are there sensitivities?
of fictitious basins, including riparian
countries and their geographical, eco- Stakeholders: what knowledge and
nomic, historical and political, hydro- capacities do the relevant stakeholders
logical characteristics (Iza, A., 2013). have? What are the desired outcomes
Based on these fictitious basins, IUCN’s of benefit sharing?
Six-Step framework on benefit sharing
can be operationalised through using Information availability: the quality
the accompanying training package of information available will determine
complete with examples and scenarios how far you can go with the assessment
for running stakeholder engagement of basin interventions, construction of
and capacity building workshops. alternative scenarios and the economic
quantification of costs and benefits.
Each Step in the training package con-
sists of a facilitation guide that walks the These factors need to be taken into ac-
practitioner through how to undertake count when working through the Six-
the Step with basin stakeholders in a Step benefit sharing framework and
workshop setting. Practical exercises to training package to best determine
carry out with stakeholders and support where to begin the training ‘journey’
materials to run the training provide fur- and what (if any) prior work is need-
ther guidance and support. At the be- ed. As much as possible, this training
ginning of each Step there is a checklist package is designed to be flexible in its
which highlight the prerequisite knowl- use, responding to the variety of basin
edge and preparations necessary for contexts, needs and desired outcomes
completing the Step based on each ba- of both practitioners and stakeholders.
sin’s entry point into this process, which
will depend on several factors:
Basin context: where the basin is in
terms of development – are there in-
vestment projects in the pipeline, will
they impact different stakeholders,
what are the benefits available to be
shared for these plans?
Benefit Sharing Workshop on the 3S basin, Mekong ©IUCN Asia
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Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, border between Zimbabwe and Zambia © Shutterstock/Eva MontTraining Package
A comprehensive practitioner’s guide and powerpoint decks support the application
of the ‘Six Steps to Benefit Sharing’ in workshops and training. Please visit:
www.iucn.org/theme/water/our-work/current-projects/bridge/benefit-sharing
For a visual story feature on the global experience and learning of BRIDGE Benefit
Sharing, please visit: digital.iucn.org/water/sharing-the-benefits/
Sharing
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Training
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