This report assesses the current trends, drivers, obstacles, mechanisms, impacts,
costs and benefits of stakeholder engagement in the water sector. It builds on empirical
data collected through an extensive survey across 215 stakeholders, within and outside
the water sector, and 69 case studies collected worldwide. It highlights the increasing
importance of stakeholder engagement in the water sector as a principle of good governance
and the need for better understanding of the pressing and emerging issues related
to stakeholder engagement. These include: the shift of power across stakeholders;
the arrival of new entrants that ought to be considered; the external and internal
drivers that have triggered engagement processes; innovative tools that have emerged
to manage the interface between multiple players, and types of costs and benefits
incurred by engagement at policy and project levels. This report provides pragmatic
policy guidance to decision makers and practitioners in the form of key principles
and a Checklist for Public Action with indicators, international references and self-assessment
questions, which together can help policy makers to set up the appropriate framework
conditions needed to yield the short and long-term benefits of stakeholder engagement.
Foreword and acknowledgements |
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Acronyms and abbreviations |
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Executive summary |
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Assessment and recommendations |
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Stakeholder engagement and the water agenda |
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Drivers of stakeholder engagement in the water sector |
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Mapping water-related stakeholders at all levels |
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Obstacles to engaging stakeholders in the water sector |
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Stakeholder engagement me chanismsin the water sector |
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Assessing stakeholder engagement in the water sector |
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Stakeholder engagement in the water sector: Key principles and a Checklist for Public
Action
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Stakeholders’ profiles11 chapters available
National governments |
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Sub-national governments |
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International organisations |
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Service providers and their networks |
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Watershed institutions and their networks |
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Regulators |
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Business |
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Financial actors |
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Civil society |
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Science and academia |
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Advisors |
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Annexes6 chapters available
Parliamentarians in water-related stakeholder engagement |
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Agricultural actors in water-related stakeholder engagement |
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Trade unions in water-related stakeholder engagement |
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Media in water-related stakeholder engagement |
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Cross case study list |
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List of respondents to the OECD survey |
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