#60: Collaboration agreement between regional and local actors on irrigation

This instrument is based on an underlying legal framework which allows to conclude collaboration agreements between different actors and relevant user groups of water resources to improve

Water management refers to the activities of analysing and monitoring water resources, as well as developing and implementing measures to keep the state of a water resource within what has been negotiated as desirable bounds (Pahl-Wostl, 2015).

Pahl-Wostl, C. (2015). Water Governance in the Face of Global Change—From Understanding to Transformation. Wiesbaden: Springer International Publishing.

on the basin level.

Collaboration agreements can include a number of organisations for the implementation of the respective competencies, such as river basin organisations, regional government, local administrations, and irrigation associations.  

In the Guadalquivir basin in Andalusia, Spain, schemes for collaborative agreement between river basin organizations and regional government, local administration and associations exist. Their aim is to coordinate the implementation of the respective prerogatives.