Advanced participatory methods  for changing water management & governancee

Date de publication : Oct 02, 2015 9:11:34 AM

Advanced participatory methods

for changing water

management & governance

A one day training workshop on the CoOPLAaGE toolkit

October 16, 2015 Montpellier SupAgro

When ?

In the context of the conference “Innovate to improve irrigation performance” organized by AFEID on 11-16 October 2015.

What is CoOPLAaGE ?

CoOPLAaGE is a an integrated set of participatory methods, tools and protocols designed to support all stakeholders’ groups, from citizens to policy makers, in discussing and engaging really into change strategies in:

·         design of an acceptable decision procedure

·         modeling of the joint situation

·         framing of shared social justice principles

·         simulation (role playing game) of change pathways and policy impact

·         planning to build coherent action plans

·         evaluation of the process and outcomes

·         implementation pathway

Why CoOPLAage ?

·         CoOPLAaGE is designed for the organizers of water management processes (planning, implementation), open to a wide range of participants (administration, policy makers, consumers, NGOs, farmers, experts, etc.). It covers most needs in participatory decision making, for various types of groups (water agencies, irrigation, regional bodies)

·         easily transferable and adaptable to various contexts, countries and players

·         attractive and innovative (e.g. role playing games)

·         it has a large international users’ network, fostered by trainings and cooperative projects (2014-2015: Tunisia, Kenya, Sénégal, Costa-Rica, Nicaragua, Australia, New-Caledonia // 14 other countries before)

·         it is produced by a French public and independent institution

Content of the training

Practical exercises to let participants project themselves into their own case studies and consider possible decision procedures: Integration in multi-level participation / Playing one’s own local model with WAG / Participatory planning with COOPLAN / Integrated impact evaluation with ENCORE / Participatory design of the decision procedure with PRE-PAR / Assessing future needs

Training will be done in English ; teacher will be Dr Nils Ferrand, senior researcher at IRSTEA, coordinator of the CoOPLAaGE program

Cost: € 300 HT – for reduced fee rates, please contact us; Contact: delphine.laot@irstea.fr; Tel +33(0)4 67 04 63 20

http://cooplaage-course.watagame.info