From the GovernAgua project, the South American Institute for Studies on Resilience and Sustainability (SARAS) together with the IEE of the University of São Paulo and the ZALF Center of Leibniz, carried out the webinar “Advances and challenges of the basin committees for the management of water resources: reflections from South America and Europe ”, on September 17.

The exchange between people involved in basin committees and other types of similar spheres, which link governmental and non-governmental actors, included 4 guests: from Brazil (Amauri Pollachi), Uruguay (Matilde Saravia), Germany (Mario Sommerhäuser), and Serbia (Olivera Gavrilović).

With more than 90 participants from 30 countries and 3 continents, the meeting was moderated by Micaela Trimble (SARAS), Bárbara Schröter (ZALF), and Pedro Jacobi (IEE-USP) had three moments. The first focused on the objective and role of each basin organization, its operation, structure, and composition.
The second had as its axis some triggering questions and a debate on social participation and forms of involvement of different groups of actors, as well as on the political impact of river basin organizations, including the challenges for participatory and democratic governance in the context of water crises. In the third, questions from the audience were answered.

For more information about the GovernAgua Project of the SARAS Institute, funded by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), we invite you to visit its new website: http://governagua.org/

The webinar recording (in Spanish) is available below.