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Collaborative governance for sustainable water resources management: the experience of the Inter-municipal Initiative for the Integrated Management of the Ayuquila River Basin,Mexico
This paper describes how ten municipalities within the Ayuquila river basin in Mexico
formed a collaborative association to reduce river pollution and, more generally, to
work together to improve living conditions and promote more sustainable management
of natural resources within and across their administrative boundaries. It describes
the improvements achieved and discusses the institutional arrangements for this
association, including the involvement of local universities and state- and
federal-level institutions, and provision for citizen participation. It also
discusses the measures taken to ensure the association’s continued
effectiveness, especially ensuring support from municipal politicians (who only have
three-year terms of office), strengthening municipal-level technical capacity and
what is needed to ensure the association’s effectiveness in the future.
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