WP #6: Stakeholder Dialogue and Concerted Action

This working paper describes the conceptual background and implementation of the EMPOWERS approach to stakeholder dialogue and concerted action.  It is the experience that such stakeholder involvement, especially at the community level, will enhance access and rights, particularly of the under-privileged.  It is this larger process of participatory analysis, visioning, scenario building and strategic planning that is the real heart of EMPOWERS stakeholder process.  The outcome will be the development of practical tools and the gaining of experience in planning for integrated water resource management (IWRM) at the local level.

This Working Paper also focuses on the steps to be taken in stakeholder analysis, facilitation and setting-up of stakeholder platforms; in short the social organization needed for participation in IWRMwith its inter-sectoral complexities of day to day decisions and long-term strategic planning.  These SDCA platforms – supported by the framework and activities of the EMPOWERS planning cycle (see WP3, WP4 and WP5; reference section) – can analyse constraints, elaborate shared visions and possible scenarios, define priorities, identify opportunities to improve the exchange of information and decision-making process between stakeholders, and strengthen social organization for concerted action. Working Paper 7 will further elaborate on how, in a participatory way, community platforms can design their own projects in view of the visions, strategies and priorities agreed upon in the planning cycle process described above.

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