Chapter
2:
Concept
note
2.1
A
political-‐economy
framework
for
groundwater
governance
(World
Bank,
2012)
The
framework
used
for
this
analysis
distinguishes
three
parts
of
the
groundwater
governance
system:
the
policy
level,
the
strategic
level
and
the
local
governance
level.
Nations
establish
their
groundwater
objectives
at
the
policy
level.
Strategic
level
governance
is
the
stage
at
which
a
nation
puts
in
place
institutions
and
instruments
to
align
stakeholder
behavior
and
actual
outcomes
with
policy
objectives.
Finally,
local
governance
level
involves
the
organizations
and
institutions
that
control
actual
outcomes
on
the
ground,
and
respond
in
varying
degrees
to
rules
and
incentives.
The
framework
is
putlined
in
figure
2.1
Figure
2.1:
A
Framework
for
Analyzing
and
Assessing
Groundwater
Governance
The
remainder
of
this
section
on
the
World
Bank
Report
summarizes
essential
dimensions
that
need
to
be
addressed
to
analyze
water
governance
capacities
and
related
challenges.
The
following
sections
develop
upon
a
framework
(see
figure
1)
based
on
a
hybrid
of
different
structures
developed
by
Huntjens
(2011),
Huntjens
et
al.,
(2010,
2011a,
2012),
Pahl-‐Wostl
and
Lebel
(2010)
and
the
OECD
report
on
Water
Governance
in
OECD
countries
(2011).
For
the
purposes
of
the
analysis
in
this
ESW
report,
a
distinction
is
drawn
between
context,
water
governance
capacities
and
performance,
as
presented
in
figure
2.2.
The
socio-‐economic,
political
and
cultural
contexts