Managing Water for the City of the Future
Theme 6: Governance and Institutions
Introduction
IUWM and the SWITCH project are challenging because they implicitly require an improvement in governance, especially at the city level, spanning several traditionally separate sub-sectors or functions of government and civil society. Improved IUWM will require engagement with a complex array of administrative, political, institutional, social, economic challenges in cities. SWITCH is therefore focused on stimulating changes in policy and practice in urban water management within municipalities, other levels of government and civil society. An underlying hypothesis is that without institutional change it will not be possible to achieve a paradigm shift towards more integrated management.
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Work packages
6.1: Governance for Integrated Urban Water Management
6.2: Learning Alliances
6.3: Optimizing Social Inclusion
6.4: Financing, Cost Recovery and Institutional Models
Each work package is divided into several tasks. Click here to view more information about the objectives, deliverables, milestones and planning for each task.
More details about Work package 6.3: Social Inclusion Case Studies
The related issues of social inclusion/exclusion, poverty and inequality are the focus of this work package. Social inclusion is highlighted here to capture both individual wellbeing and the broader benefits of social cohesion. Social inclusion/exclusion relate to many different domains of potential deprivation (e.g. physical, physiological, economic, social and political); a focus on the inclusion/exclusion nexus encourages consideration of capabilities broader than income, of the agencies and actors responsible for inclusion and exclusion, of the challenges posed in addressing marginalisation (e.g. diversity versus homogenisation).
The aim of these case studies is, through presenting existing local and international experiences with socially inclusive approaches to urban development, including slum upgrading, to capture local knowledge and share key lessons on challenges and successes about these complex and highly sensitive issues. Ideally, cases detailing experiences implemented using a multi-stakeholder platform approach with strong involvement if local government.
In the context of SWITCH, the cases serve as think pieces to inform not only the work of those involved in the work package 6.3, but also members of Learning Alliances and the wider SWITCH project. The objective is to provide them with inspiration about alternative, more inclusive and pro-poor, ways of working towards achieving a paradigm shift in integrated urban water management.
| Title | Author(s) | |
| Including marginalised groups in equitable water management through a Learning Alliance Approach: The EMPOWERS project | Carmen da Silva Wells | Case study |
| Making urban sanitation strategies of six Indonesian cities more pro-poor and gender-equitable: the case of ISSDP | Christine Sijbesma and Joep Verhagen | Case study |
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Faces and Spaces
Working in the National Film, Television & Theatre School based in Lodz this photography exhibition was made by course participants in an international workshop on process documentation. It explores peoples' lives in Lodz and how they relate to public spaces and water. It aims to show how rehabilitation and restoration projects around water could be made more socially inclusive.
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Resources
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