EAN: 9783319294209

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ...

This book is about the process of water management decentralization in African countries  which
is seen as a means of advancing river basin management at the lowest appropriate level. There
are very different stages of implementing decentralization in practice. This called for
research aiming to understand the following questions: (i) why do some water agencies succeed
more than others? (ii) What are the variables involved in such reform process? (iii) which
variables have a positive or a negative impact on the implementation of decentralization
processes? (iv) Which variables could be affected by policy interventions  and how? This study
aimed to answer these questions through the following objectives: (i) analyze the factors that
have potentially affected the results of decentralization process in SSA basins  and (ii)
analyze the performance of decentralization process in SSA basins. Qualitative and quantitative
approaches were used. The main findings are that water scarcity is a major stimulus to reform 
water user associations  if not well prepared and trained  may deter the decentralization
process  and being part of an existing treaty over an international basin helps foster the
process. Conditions improving decentralization performance include: scarcity of water resources
longer period of implementation  bottom-up creation  and appropriate budgetary support.

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