Chapter
11:
Recommendations
Chapter
11.
Recommendations
Key
message:
The
limited
outreach
of
the
government
regulatory
mechanisms,
the
distrust
and
avoidance
of
the
judicial
system
and
the
history
of
strong
local
management
in
Yemen
strongly
suggest
that
the
improvement
lies
in
strengthening
and
connecting
formal
and
informal
dispute
resolution
mechanisms
in
order
to
reduce
the
legal
pluralism.
Improved
water
conflict
prevention
and
water-‐
related
dispute
resolution
mechanisms
require
significant
investments
in
the
overall
institutional
capacity,
thereby
safeguarding
the
needs
for
awareness
raising,
training,
transparency,
accountability
and
participation.
11.1
Introduction
The
new
regime
in
place
in
Yemen
is
heading
to
a
new
system
of
government,
likely
a
federal
state
system.
Through
the
National
Dialogue,
Yemen
has
started
the
process
of
formulating
a
new
constitution
based
on
six
regional
states.
This
will
change
the
relation
within
the
river
basins,
as
they
cross
regional
state
boundaries
and
should
be
a
reason
to
start
formulating
or
updating
water
rights
and
allocation
rules.
However,
at
the
same
time
there
is
a
risk
of
confusion
and
extended
“Water
risk
will
oblige
us
to
displace.
weakness
of
governmental
organizations,
resulting
in
further
fragmentation
and
Unless
we
have
long-‐term
strategy”
parallelism.
The
previous
decades
saw
no
Participant
consultation
meeting,
Amman,
2014
structured
interaction
between
public
sector
and
water
users.
Formal
governmental
organizations
are
ineffective
and
implementation
of
projects
is
characterised
by
large
budgets,
e.g.,
for
subsidized
pumping,
but
with
only
very
meagre
support
for
better
water
resource
management,
watershed
protection,
recharge,
or
efficient
water
services.
The
new
political
landscape
may
offer
an
opportunity
to
strengthen
local
management
and
power
constellations.
In
the
table
below
(Table
11.1)
provides
summary
of
recommendations
in
priority
order.
Table
11.1:
Summary
of
recommendations
and
implementation
phase
Recommendations
Short
Mid-‐ Long
term
term
term
1
Knowledge
exchange
on
water
system
X
X
X
2
Publicly
available
agro-‐climatic
and
market
data
X
X
3
Alternative
cash
crops
to
replace
qat
X
4
Documentation
of
traditional
water
access
and
distribution
rules
X
X
X
5
Awareness
raising
on
legal
issues
and
responsible
authorities
X
X
X
6
Awareness
raising
on
relation
water
usage
and
conflict
X
X
X
7
Improve
connection
between
local
and
national
authorities
X
8
Document
local
agreements
on
conflict
resolution
X
X
X
9
Train
government
staff
in
legal
issues
X
X
X
10
Monitor
and
evaluate
conflict
resolution
practices
X
X
X
11
Implement
10
institutional
design
principles
X
The