IWRM Participation Practices

This module aims to provide students with a practical understanding of the implementation of IWRM and public participation in water management through an active learning approach.

It is centered on “Cooplage,” a support system for implementing participatory approaches to water management developed by researchers at the UMR GEAU, and the associated Agreenium MOOC, Terr’eau & co.

Students will work in small groups—comprising students from different tracks within the Master’s in Water program—on case studies drawn from the instructors’ ongoing research projects. Learning will take place through the application of certain tools from the “Cooplage” program to their case studies, particularly modeling and participatory simulation in the form of role-playing. To ground their work in real-world context, students will be connected with the stakeholders involved in these case studies. 

• Understanding and addressing issues related to the implementation of IWRM and public participation in water management: the stages and stakeholders involved in Integrated Water Resources Management, the challenges posed by the integration of stakeholders, scales, and issues, and the availability of tools to facilitate stakeholder and public participation in IWRM
• Implement integrative tools that enable the management of the complexity of data, stakeholders, and systems (modeling, planning, monitoring and evaluation, etc.) and that engage on-the-ground stakeholders and the public in IWRM

Required prerequisites*:

Have completed certain modules of the Agreenium Terr’eau & co MOOC: https://lms.agreenium.fr/enrol/index.php?id=12

Have read the documentation on case studies

Recommended prerequisites*:

Have completed the course “Issues, Stakeholders, and Regulation”

Ongoing individual assessment of students’ commitment and diligence through mini-assignments throughout the module (1/3 of the grade)

Collective evaluation of group projects through a final presentation (1/3 of the grade) and an online written report to be completed after the module (1/3 of the grade)

This lesson unit is organized into the following activities:

• What exactly is participatory IWRM? An open discussion centered on the students’ knowledge and the presenters’ projects, as well as discussions with IWRM professionals invited by the presenters
• Exploring role-playing games that can be used to implement GIRE
• Group work on real-world case studies: case study documentation, systems analysis, modeling, role-playing exercise, participation planning exercise, distributive justice exercise
• Presentations, debriefing, and final discussion
• Implementation of a reflective monitoring and evaluation process for course learning outcomes