1. Preparing women for decision-making with local citizen science
Integration and Inclusion - New Ideas for collaboration in River Basins Management, Policies and Practices
Nile Basin Dialogue Summit 2017
Preparing women for decision-making with local citizen science
Kenneth Irvine, Ellen Pfeiffer and Uta Wehn,
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands
Title NBD

2. Citizen Science is changing participation
Citizen Science is changing participation. Can it be a useful tool for women empowerment?
source: Gt20.eu)

3. The Governance Challenge
Sustainability requires visionary, adaptive, holistic leadership
Reality involves:
Many conflicting factors
Development often seen as signal issue focus
Institutional structures impede rather than enable
Any holistic vision faces implementation in a fragmented world

4. What we see. Policy analysis of a resource governance system
Use Floriane‘s IAD adaptation?
What we see. Policy analysis of a resource governance system
Source:
Clement (2008); A multi-level analysis of forest policies in Northern Vietnam: Uplands, people, institutions and discourses

5. BRE (Royal establishment)
What communities see.
Donors
Unequal opportunities for villages
Resources issues
District
Officials
Wildlife
Forestry
Fisheries
Water
KAZA
Promises of income unfulfilled
Increasing droughts
Local Council
Fishstocks depleted
Community forests
WDC
Crop Damage
CRB
Dept. Parks & Wildlife
Conservation enforcement
Illegal logging
Catchment
KAZA
Peace Parks Foundation
Demonstration Site
DNPW contact
Strong tourism link
NWASCO
BRE (Royal establishment)
Local Indunas
Forestry
Dept.
Fisheries
Dept.
ZamCom
Source: Stakeholder workshops GT2.0 project with Village Action Groups and CRB Sesheke West, Zambia.
Ministry Chiefs /Trad. Affairs
Timber Companies

6. Water as gender(ed) issue
Source: World Bank Water and Sanitation Program 2012 cartoon calendar

7. Women & Water for Change in Communities
Two-year action research initiative in Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Skill development promoting female participation in water-related decisions
Develop local citizen monitoring schemes
Support women sustainability entrepreneurs
Premise: Female particpation…
improves WASH and resource use
depends on skills and economic status

8. Action Sites

9. Common Challenges Implementation of co-designed management plans
Major threats often from external economic needs (energy, timber, transport)
Majority of livelihoods resource-dependent
Disconnect between outside‘ perception and realities on the ground
Deficit of information on state of local resource

10. Lower Mara: Linking citizens through participatory mapping

11. Empowering women/youth as citizen scientists
Knowing
Safeguarding
Observing
Data

12. Agenys of change and behavioural choices: Influenced by what we see....
Note: Every person can have several mental models and look at a problem from different perspectives. This might happen consciously, or be influenced by the current mood, etc.
Source: World Development Report 2015
…our peers do.

13. Understand what is relevant. Open issues for discussion.
What communities see.
Donors
Unequal opportunities for villages
Resources issues
District
Officials
Understand what is relevant.
Open issues for discussion.
Communicate how you see it
Wildlife
Forestry
Fisheries
Water
KAZA
Promises of income unfulfilled
Increasing droughts
Local Council
Fishstocks depleted
Community forests
WDC
Crop Damage
CRB
Dept. Parks & Wildlife
Conservation enforcement
Illegal logging
Catchment
KAZA
Peace Parks Foundation
Demonstration Site
DNPW contact
String tourism link
NWASCO
BRE (Royal establishment)
Local Indunas
Forestry
Dept.
Fisheries
Dept.
ZamCom
Source: Stakeholder workshops GT2.0 project with Village Action Groups and CRB Sesheke West, Zambia.
Ministry Chiefs /Trad. Affairs
Timber Companies

14. ...But also opportunities for new approaches
Some Core Challenges
Local meaning of equity?
Selection bias?
Participation vs. agency?
Which decisions?
...But also opportunities for new approaches