Stakeholder collaboration processes

Collaboration with the Selwyn Water Allocation Liaison Group (SWALG) on the Sustainable Groundwater Allocation Research programme has enabled us to identify the following components of a resource management framework that is participatory and adaptive:

  • Separately detailed components for information collation, systems analysis and vision, plan making, implementation, and monitoring and review.
  • A guiding ethos that promotes trust, negotiation, conflict resolution, consensus building and continuous improvement.
  • Clear agreement on facilitation, representation, responsibilities, expectations and support.

This type of process meets the key principles of the OECD Policy Brief on sustainable development strategies, and guiding principles outlined in the implementation package of the New Zealand Government’s “Sustainable Water Programme of Action.”

  • Similar approaches around the world have shown the potential to develop agreements that are considered:           
    Fairer to all relevant stakeholders;    
  • More efficient because they come closer to producing results that meet the most important interests of all relevant parties while minimising the investment of time and money required;              
  • More stable (meaning that they remain in place even as political leadership changes since they constitute meaningful long-term commitments by all key constituencies); and               
  • Wiser, because the best possible scientific advice available at the time is taken seriously.

List of Products and Services:

 

- Participatory and adaptive resource management framework