This Briefing Paper presents one of six analyses of cross-sectoral coordination challenges that were conducted as part of the STEER research project and on which separate Briefing Papers are available. South Africa’s water legislation is internationally recognised for its ambitious...

At present no binding human rights instrument referring to an explicit right to water exists within the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) human rights legal framework. There are, however, implicit references to such a right within a number of SADC policy documents, and three...

Recent major reforms in Australia and South Africa have seen radical changes in the way in which water is conceived in legal terms and the regulatory frameworks for its allocation and distribution. The South African 1998 reforms were in part inspired by Australian changes, but it is argued that...

Governments and developing agencies promote participatory approaches in solving common pool resource problems, such as in the water sector. Two main participatory approaches have been applied separately, namely negotiation and mediation. In this paper the authors apply the Role-Playing Game that...

Many African countries have seen the passing of new water laws. Reflecting international discourses on IWRM, they put the use, management and value of water in an eco-systemic perspective, while they reflect the Dublin principles with regard to issues such as efficiency, sustainability, equity...