This is a follow up activity of the 2015-2016 WLE. Under the previous activity we played artefactual public good experiments with 300 community leaders and other local stakeholders in order to to create awareness for cooperation challenges around minor irrigation infrastructure. The experimental approaches have facilitated dialogue, shared learning, collective decision making, and strengthened the adaptive management capacity of local communities. The game setting allowed to experiment with rules and strategies. Under the activity proposed here, we want to a) better understand the impact of our capacity development approach, b) improve the experiment based institutional capacity development approach, c) develop with stakeholders strategies how the approach can be scaled up, and d) use the results to initiate discussions with key governance stakeholders on how rules and regulations can be adapted to provide incentives for sustainable water infrastructure management.
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