This handbook recounts 5 years of an integrated water resources management (IWRM) pilot project carried out in the Niayes region in Senegal. It explains how GRET used a commons-based approach to establish a dynamic for the construction of shared governance between local stakeholders and public authorities. In 2017, the Girel project was launched at the request of the Directorate of Water Resources Planning and Management (DGPRE) in order to implement the national IWRM policy. This handbook describes how this action-research based project supported the creation of local water platforms designed as spaces for democratic experimentation at municipal level, bringing together users, technical services and decentralised authorities. It examines the strategy used to support a process of co-constructing public policies, combining a territorialised local dynamic and a close partnership with the DGPRE.
Intended for associations, NGOs and donors promoting initiatives around commons, this document focuses on lessons learned that can be useful for continuing the dynamic undertaken in Senegal, and for designing and implementing similar approaches in other contexts.
Also avalaible in french on this link.
