International River Basin Organizations (RBO) Data
As part of her PhD research, Marloes Bakker (link to the thesis), created a database of the currently known international river basin organizations currently known. Documents are coded by the basin and countries involved, and include level and type of collaboration, principal issue(s), date of creation, a short description of the organization and the source.
The 'organizations' in this database relate to formal, government-based institutions specifically designed for the management of international river basins. For more on river basin organizations, see the comprehesive case study River Basin Organizations [PDF] by Jerome Delli Priscoli
The purpose of this database is to increase our knowledge on institutional capacity per international river basin. As such, this data was integrated into a five-part series of continental reports on Hydropolitical Resilience and Vulnerability in International River Basins, a collaboration between UNEP-DEWA and the Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters.
This database is a work in progress, and we invite observations and additional entries. Please contact Aaron Wolf with comments or new/missing organizations. For questions concerning the functional operation of the database, please contact Patrick MacQuarrie.
Contributing Partners
The compilation of this data-set partly relied on the generosity of the following researchers who are committed to open distribution of their incredibly rich data sets:
Dombrowsky, Ines, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany
Data integrated in:
Conflict, Cooperation and Institutions in International Water Management - An Economic Analysis, Cheltenham UK and Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, pp. 330-360.
Andrea Gerlak, Arizona State University, USA.
Data integrated in:
Regional Water Governance and Institutional Arrangements around Transboundary Waters. Working draft. Prepared for presentation at the 2007 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago IL (February 28--March 3, 2007).
We are indebted to Ms. Oi May Chew from the Global Environment Centre, Malaysia, who contacted their member list to tell them about this database, which generated a lot of responses.
In addition, we are grateful to a number of individuals who were very helpful when adding details to this database: Patrick M'mayi and Lal Kurukulasuriya from UNEP, Jayne Millar (Freshwater Action Network, England), Karen Morrissey (American Embassy, Botswana), Priyantha Jayasuriya Arachchi (Challenge Program Water & Food, IWMI, Sri Lanka), Victoria Qheku (Lesotho Highlands Water Project, Lesotho) and Elroy Bos (The World Conservation Union, Water and Nature Initiative, Switzerland). Furthermore, Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon, an intern at Office for Sustainable Development and Environment, has collaborated by providing us with names of organizations acquired for his own research.
The following individuals, in no particular order, provided valuable information by means of an interview or by filling out questionnaires about their organization or commission: Aloys Nonguierma (Autorite de Developpement Integre de la Region du Liptako-Gourma, Burkina Faso), Luis De Almeida (Southern African Development Community, Botswana), Chris Keevy (Komati Basin Water Authority, Swaziland), Charles Biney (Volta Basin Organization, Ghana), Amandou Diallo (Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du bassin du fleuve, Mali), Navon Cisse (Gestion Integreé des Ressources en Eau de Niger Supérieure, Mali), Jiappo Nitssirou (Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Gambie, Senegal), Benjamin N'dala (Commission Internationale du Bassins Congo-Oubangui-Sangha, Congo), Alain Bernard (International Office for Water, TwinBasin Xn, France), Awaiss Aboubacar and Sara Humphrey (WWF International, Switzerland), Tam Lambert (Lake Chad Basin Commission, Chad), Mohammed Bello Tuga (Niger Basin Authority, Níger), Pasquale Steduto (Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy), Leo van den Berg (Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, South Africa), Janot Reine-Mendler (IW Learn, USA), Pasquale Steduto (FAO, Italy), Balisi Bernard Khupe (Department of Water Affairs, Botswana), and Atigou Balde (DNGRE, Guinee).
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