NEGOWAT Project INCO-DEV : International Cooperation with Developing Countries (1998-2002) : 6 monthly activity report covering period from 01/01/04 to 30/06/04. Facilitating negotiations over land and water conflicts in Latin American peri-urban upstream catchments : combining agent-based modelling with role game playing

Ducrot Raphaèle. 2005. NEGOWAT Project INCO-DEV : International Cooperation with Developing Countries (1998-2002) : 6 monthly activity report covering period from 01/01/04 to 30/06/04. Facilitating negotiations over land and water conflicts in Latin American peri-urban upstream catchments : combining agent-based modelling with role game playing. In : NEGOWAT Project INCO-DEV : International Cooperation with Developing Countries (1998-2002) : second annual report covering period from 01/01/04 to 31/12/04 and appendices. Facilitating negotiations over land and water conflicts in Latin American peri-urba. Ducrot Raphaèle. CIRAD-TERA. Montpellier : CIRAD-TERA, 1-41.

Résumé : This first semester of the second year of the Negowat project has been devoted to the following activities -A- Reorganization of the team and adaptation of work in Bolivia) : 1) Reorganization of the local team in Bolivia 2) Redefinition of the intervention mode in Bolivia. A new controversial water service project, which is to be implemented in Tiquipaya, has polarized water issues in such a way that any discussion on superficial water management is impossible. This, and the team reorganization, led to revise the intervention mode. A new strategy has been proposed that focuses on urbanization and access to urban water services. 3) Elaboration in both countries on the strategies of intervention and interaction with stakeholders. 4) Reorganization of the modeling team in Brazil in order to compensate for the difficulty to identify a pos-doc scientist to implement the work 5) Finalization of the thematic field studies both in Bolivia and Brazil, and elaboration of the first related publication. -B- Consequences on project development: The difficulties met to build an integrated, multidisciplinary and multi-institutional team in Brazil and in Bolivia have led to delays in the development of field work, that were already stated in the annual report 2003. In Brazil, it should be noted however that these initial difficulties have globally been overcome during this semester, and work is now proceeding satisfactorily. However, two thematic areas (access to water and sanitation in urban settlements and representation of water quality processes at catchment level) have started their activities only a couple of months ago. Consequently, the first results, as well as the complete conceptual framework of peri-urban catchment functioning, are not expected to be available before December 2004, instead of July 2004 for the other thematic fields. The political situation of Bolivia in 2003, the conflictive local situation and the CERES difficulties have led to more serious delays in the implementation of the work in Bolivia. Work planning has been reorganized, and a new intervention strategy, with a realistic planning has been elaborated. However, these initial delays means that there will be little time to fully develop the core WP of this project (WP4), and test the simulation tools in some local negotiation processes, as well as to analyze the potentiality and limits of the methods proposed. The steering committee has decided to request of to the European Commission an extension of 12 months of the duration project, on the same budget basis, to be able to fully implement WP4 and WP5 (developing the intervention strategy with stakeholders): end of work August 2006 - final report October 2006. Complementary funding will be locally looked for, when necessary.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : projet de développement, ressource en eau, utilisation de l'eau, utilisation des terres, gestion des ressources, modélisation

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Amérique latine, Bolivie (État plurinational de), Brésil

Mots-clés complémentaires : Jeu de role

Classification Agris : P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion
U10 - Informatique, mathématiques et statistiques

Auteurs et affiliations

• Ducrot Raphaèle, CIRAD-TERA-REV (BRA)

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/524770/)

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