Enhancing and evaluating stakeholder engagement for improved water outcomes

利益相关者的参与，被广泛认为是成功的水治理的必要条件，仍然是临时的，无论是在实践中，作为一个研究主题。通过对墨累-达令流域（1900- 2020年）利益相关者参与水资源管理的复杂演变案例的详细分析，本项目旨在开发新的方法来衡量社会文化衍生的利益相关者参与系统的结构和形式，以提高水资源的社会经济和环境效益。预期产出是一个新的诊断工具，用于评价利益攸关方的参与情况，可供理事机构采用。预期收益是通过更有效的利益攸关方参与，实现更具包容性、平等和适应性的水治理。

Stakeholder engagement, widely recognised as essential in successful water governance, remains ad hoc both in practice and as a research theme. Using a detailed analysis of a complex evolutionary case of stakeholder engagement in water management in the Murray-Darling Basin (1900- 2020), this project aims to develop new approaches to measure the structure and form of socio-culturally derived stakeholder engagement system, to improve socio-economic and environmental benefits from water. The expected output is a new diagnostic tool for evaluating stakeholder engagement that can be taken up by governing bodies. The expected benefit is more inclusive, equal, and adaptive water governance through more effective stakeholder engagement.