Assessing the Effectiveness of a Role Playing Game as a Stakeholder Engagement Tool for Water Resource Management Sian Oosthuizen Institute of Natural Resources NPC
Overview • Stakeholder Engagement • Tools • Project and case study • Tool development • Application • Effectiveness of the tool
Importance of Stakeholder Engagement • Legal and policy framework requirement • For effective Water Resource Management • ‘buy in’ from users
The Statements… Lack of effective public participation Effective stakeholder engagement is essential Implementation lacks traction due to lack of ‘buy in’ from those on the ground
The Questions… How do we engage with a range of stakeholders How do we get users to understand system complexity How do we get role players to realise the importance of water resources How do we get critical mass citizens to understand resource complexity
The Challenges… • Time consuming • Organisation and logistics • Terminology and language • Diversity of stakeholders • Tension and conflict
So what is the solution…? Stakeholder Engagement Tools • Suite of tools to promote and improve stakeholder engagement • International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) • Role Playing Game • Participatory tool for resource management • Enable stakeholders to ‘play out’ reality and self-analyse • Integration of project elements
Project and Case Study Africa at meso-scale: adaptive and integrated • European Union (EU) funded tools and strategies for natural resource management project “Afromaison” • Meso-scale resource management UTHUKELA DISTRICT • Develop tools and strategies MUNICIPALITY TOOLKIT • Diverse characterises of case study
Tool development • Wat-A-Game (WAG) Guideline • 4 levels • Use of “Self - WAG” • Abstracted simulation of system • Workshops with WAG developers and other case studies Ini-WAG
Tool development • In depth assessment of the area AmanziGame • Consultation with specialists and key stakeholders CREATION TESTING REWORK AND ALTER
RNNP World Tool development Heritage Site ZONE 3 • Game Board • Various Roles (players) ZONE 0 • Flow of game ZONE 2 ZONE 1
Tool Development • Land Plot Cards • Wetlands • Towns • Alien Invasive Species GRAZE LAND FARM LAND
Tool development • Pebbles Water Unit Soil Unit Money Unit Labour Cattle Dam Borehole Herd
Tool development You Will Need • Action Cards CROP LAND You Will Get/Release
Tool development • Action Cards GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIAL ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICER Grant: Unemployment Fine: Excess Organic Pollution 1 5 2 2 May be paid by government official to rural Paid by commercial farmer to environmental farmer if labour is unemployed officer Event Card • Event Cards Good Harvest Gain 1 extra Money Unit
Tool Development • Rounds (scenarios) • Monitoring and planning • Game session • 3 or 4 hours
Application • Local community Focus • DAEARD group • Local Municipality workshops • NGOs, environmental organisations, researches, rural developers • Draft Afromaison Strategy Outcomes • Identified key challenge Final game • Key stakeholders session Outcomes • Afromaison Strategy
Effectiveness of the tool • Focus group workshops
Effectiveness of the tool • Brainstorming
Effectiveness of the tool • Focus group workshop findings Summary of Issues/Challenges and Drivers Identified Summary of Possible Solutions Identitfied Strengthening of Government Change of Mindsets Water Quality Access to and lack of Structures (Training) (Culture, Race, etc) Single Farmers general infrastructure Association Ad Hoc Burning Planning of Education and Land Degradation Developments Training for the Individual greed (Roads, Dumps, etc) Rural Community Historical tension Unemployment and Ongoing Training for (culture divides, Poverty Education Farmers (Extension stereotypes) Interchange (Rural Officers) Tribal Tension Incorrect and Commercial Long Term, government Farmers) Sustainable spending and Supply and Encourage Management Plan corruption distribution of water Employment Localised Decision Opportunities in Lack of Education Making and Stock theft and other Sectors and Skills (Farming) Planning criminal activities (Tourism) Implementation and Integration of Actors No Land Use Lack of Identify Suitable and Monitoring of Law Management Plan Coordination and Productive Land (Burning, Crime, Communication Farming Practices)
Back to Reality
Back to Reality
Effectiveness of the tool • Final workshop: addressing key challenge
Addressing Stakeholder Engagement Challenges COST TIME RAPID EFFECTIVE EFFICIENT UNDERSTANDING ELIMINATE TENSION GLOBAL AND CONFLICT LANGUAGE ABSTRACT BUT Fun, interactive means of engaging FUTURE UNIQUE APPLICATION stakeholders in a relaxed and comfortable environment that is void of tension and conflict experienced in reality
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