Benefit Sharing STEP 3 Building benefit enhancing scenarios

Benefit Sharing STEP 3: Building benefit enhancing scenarios using the Benefit Opportunities Assessment Tool (BOAT) Name Position Location E-mail

Step 3: Overview: What does the BOAT do? Objectives: Stakeholders jointly use qualitative analysis to define whether specific water management of development projects have a positive, neutral or negative impact on a range of stakeholders groups Desired Outcomes and Outputs: • Understand the concept of benefit sharing and the potential for basin developments to bring a range of benefits and impacts to a range of stakeholders. Also, understand that there are inherent trade-offs in benefit sharing, but that win-win scenarios are possible. • Basin stakeholders exchange in a neutral dialogue space, enabling new relationships to build or prior relationships to be strengthened. Under the real basin application: • Identifying the best alternative basin development scenario, where net benefits are enhanced through cooperation. This output can then feed into the following Steps on economic valuation and negotiation and institutional arrangements.

Using BOAT to build scenarios ü Scenarios can help in turning towards cooperation paths and approaches that could otherwise be missed or avoided. ü It is a story based on analysis and an understanding of current and historic trends and events. ü Scenario building helps to switch mind-sets from only one possible future towards a number of possible watershed development alternatives. ü They can provide knowledge on potential future events, presenting alternative images of these futures.

Using BOAT to build scenarios Opportunities for enhancing benefits can be identified jointly The preparatory work can include vision development, stakeholder workshops and post-workshop activities. Scenarios are built up by using a matrix. This matrix contains factors which are beyond our control (external factors). External factors are used to develop scenarios. Factors that are within our control (internal factors) can be applied to develop B. S. strategies.

Benefit sharing mechanisms ü Opportunities and mechanisms for benefit sharing will be context specific and must be adapted to the social, political, economic and environmental context. Knowledge sharing Benefit Sharing Mechanisms Project design Revenue allocations & financial arrangements Institutional & policy development

Benefit Opportunities Assessment Tool (BOAT) 1. Capacity building using fictional case study on the use of benefit sharing concepts and skills in cooperative transboundary water management: e. g. , identifying benefits, use of the BOAT tool, legal aspects of benefit-sharing 2. Real basin application of Benefit Opportunities Assessment through multi-level, multi-stakeholder dialogue to analyse and select scenarios that enhance benefits for more stakeholders

Fictional BOAT Exercise

NOTE: The examples used in this presentation and exercise are simplified for capacity building purposes Real-life situations will present higher complexity in terms of costs and benefits

The Takong basin

The Two Countries

Konfundesia: Geography & climate

Biodiversity in Konfundesia

Konfundesia´s autonomous regions

Konfundesia’s Agriculture & Industry

Tourism in Konfundesia

Akinonia: Geography & Climate

Akinonia’s Departments and Cities

Akinonia’s Agriculture & Industry

Akinonia’s Mining

Tourism in Akinonia

The Takong Basin

Examining Qualitative Impacts on Stakeholders Water use activities may have positive or negative impacts (externalities) on other water users A first step consists in examining the balance of positive and negative impacts across different activities/sectors in a shared basin How can joint changes in water management enhance benefits for the most stakeholders and both riparian countries?

Edara Dam Mining Upper Sambara Dam Tourism Rural City Papyrus Reservoir City Tourism