Negotiating peri-urban water conflicts (completed 2006)
NEGOWAT was a multi-partner research project (2003-2006) focused on developing methodologies to support negotiation of peri-urban water conflicts. These web pages include project information for research in India, and only summary information from Bolivia and Brasil. Further information from Latin America is available at www.negowat.org
Peri-urban Water Conflicts
This book reports from three cities, Cochabamba in Bolivia, São Paulo in Brazil, and Chennai in India, where action research brought stakeholders together to help find better solutions to infrastructural development problems in peri-urban areas. It shows how research can provide information, tools and approaches to facilitate dialogues and negotiations. This research was part of the NEGOWAT project (2003-2006).
Read more or download TP50_Peri-urban Water Conflicts.pdf (2.5 MB)
Project
Describes the NEGOWAT project including background to the research focus on peri-urban water conflicts, negotiation methodologies and the research activities underway in study cities.
Places
Background information on the three study cities of the NEGOWAT project: Chennai, India; Sao Paulo, Brasil and Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Partners and People
The NEGOWAT project is a collaborative effort of research of NGO and government institutions in Asia, Latin America and Europe
Publications
NEGOWAT publications include working papers, research reports and papers, and guidelines and training materials.
GovAgua seminar
Information from the GovAgua seminar on 'Water supply and sanitation delivery in peri-urban and slum areas' hosted by PSIRU Greenwich, London on 18 September 2006.
