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Within the World Bank’s Integrated River Basin Master Plan (IRBMP) project in Pemali Comal, Indonesia, Deltares experts collaborated with regional and local government counterparts as well as other stakeholders to prepare an integrated master plan for managing operational water management issues in the river basin. River basin issues were discussed and a conceptual model of the integrated water resources system was developed. Data and modelling requirements were collectively identified prior to the co-construction of an integrated water allocation model for the basin in RIBASIM. Potential measures were co-designed, modelled, analysed and evaluated with local stakeholders in joint workshops. The structured planning process meant that the IRBMP could be finalised, approved and adopted by local and regional decision makers according to the project schedule
2-Stakeholder participation
engagement with representatives of sector interests affected by the decision making process to capture their variety of values, perceptions, concerns and needs.
To assist with disaster risk reduction in Cork, Ireland, Deltares worked with local stakeholders from various critical infrastructure sectors (energy, health, education, water, etc.) to collaboratively map interdependencies between their various facilities using our CIrcle tool. Connections between these networks are rarely identified. As each of the various sectors are typically reluctant to share network data due to the risks of misuse by third parties. As such, the impacts of flooding or other disasters due to cascading effects remained largely unknown. Having representatives from the relevant stakeholders come together in the same room to discuss these issues, Deltares’ approach made it possible for stakeholders to share only the necessary information about their respective networks. The causal effects and dependencies between the networks could then be collected in a database and coupled with an interactive modelling engine to simulate the impacts of a series of extreme flooding events. In doing so, the benefits of providing targeted protection to vulnerable pieces of critical infrastructure could be visualised and easily understood by all stakeholders.
3- Negotiation
water resources management invariably involves conflicting stakeholder interests. Our collaborative modelling approaches aim to incorporate accepted, factual information generated by the developed models to support interest-based negotiations between stakeholders.
During the Dutch Delta Programme Rivers, central government, provincial, municipal and water board representatives cooperated together in formulating an adaptive, long-term flood risk management strategy for riverine areas. Social organisations and the business community also had opportunities to provide input. Stakeholders were brought together to design and assess a large variety of dike reinforcement and spatial measures, the latter which prioritised giving back ‘room to the river ’. Many of these spatial measures involved land use changes, decisions about which were inherently political. A collaborative modelling approach was proposed that combined structured stakeholder participation in various discussion and negotiation forums, supported by a simple, fast modelling tool: the Planning Kit (in Dutch: Blokkendoos). The Planning Kit provided stakeholders with a quick and effective means to visually analyse and assess flood protection and other impacts for the many spatial measures to be considered during negotiations over the preferred strategy.
4- Informed decision making by means of models and analytical tools
Computer-based models to inform relationships between the competing interests and impacts of a particular decision or policy. The models are used to support the analysis of data, the generation of possible scenarios and options, and to support decision makers and stakeholders in evidence-based strategy making.
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