Is there any success experience on how a sub region has been successful in raising funds for platforms on water governance?

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Is there any success experience on how a sub region has been successful in raising funds to support platforms on water governance?

WIN in the ECOWAS sub region is looking for funds to support the regions efforts at ensuring water integrity.

 

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  1. Dave Washington's comment certainly echoes my experience in wastewater. Ironically, the governance structures of most institutions and the decisions they have to make by mandate or as criteria for funding force them into conditions that are not consistent with the acknowledged principles essential for governance institutions to form from voluntary association and collaboration. The following from wikipedia is a useful introductions to those principles which are from the work of Elinior Ostrom and for which she received a Nobel Prize. Design principles for Common Pool Resource (CPR) institutions[edit] Ostrom identified eight "design principles" of stable local common pool resource management:[19] 1. Clearly defined boundaries (effective exclusion of external un-entitled parties); 2. Rules regarding the appropriation and provision of common resources that are adapted to local conditions; 3. Collective-choice arrangements that allow most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process; 4. Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to the appropriators; 5. A scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate community rules; 6. Mechanisms of conflict resolution that are cheap and of easy access; 7. Self-determination of the community recognized by higher-level authorities; and 8. In the case of larger common-pool resources, organization in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level. These principles have since been slightly modified and expanded to include a number of additional variables believed to affect the success of self-organized governance systems, including effective communication, internal trust and reciprocity, and the nature of the resource system as a whole.[20] Also in democracies real policy change is a legislative responsibility. However, more often than not legislators yeild to the expertise of administrative bureaucracies. In the United States Watershed policy literature has acknowledged that Point source water pollution control is not an adequate programatic structure through which to advance the watershed agenda. Neverthe less no legislation to remedy this dilemma is apparrent. The inclination is that education or technology and not governance will somehow remedy the situation. I to think change is coming but much more slowly than is necessary. Ultimately the public and economies of scale will remedy much of the situation. However, the delays have unintended economic costs and social consequences which we choose not to measure and therefore ignore. For a methodology that might help disparate groups bridge their differences and begin the process toward governance see

  2. It is all for show. NGOs and corporations (governments) work for their benefit only. Therefore independent, practical drinking water solutions are without development funding. Change is coming....just go with the flow.

  3. Governments have done a lot of fundraising and funds given to them but failing to make impact especially Malawi. ADB is providing a lot of resources to Malawi but few impact a local person would notice.