Application of indicators as a tool for evaluating river basin committee governance
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https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v64i0.93568Keywords:
water resources management, watershed, public policiesAbstract
The National Water Resources Policy (Law 9.433/97) has promoted many advances in water management in Brazil, such as creating more than 230 river basin committees. However, gaps and contradictions in its implementation still need to be evaluated and monitored to ensure continuous strengthening and improvement. This study analyzes the governance of the São Lourenço River Basin Committee (SLRBC) of the Paraguay River Basin Region in Mato Grosso. To this end, indicators from the Water Governance Monitoring Protocol, developed by the Brazilian Water Observatory (BWO), were adopted. The evaluation, carried out in a workshop by the members of the SLRBC themselves, resulted in 24 partially satisfactory indicators, 12 fully satisfactory, placing the committee at an intermediate level of governance, in a phase of consultation and institutional construction. The five dimensions of the monitoring protocol received the following average scores: Legal and Institutional 6.3; Management Instruments 3.4; State-Society Interaction 7.6; Intergovernmental Relations 6.6; and State Capacities. This research demonstrated the feasibility of the BWO indicators and provided important insights to improve and strengthen the governance of the committee, indicating that the main gaps are in the lack of management instruments (except for grants), in the limited discussion and decision-making on relevant aspects of the basin, in the scarcity of resources for functioning, and in the low prominence of the committee.
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