Abstract
As noted in Chap. 1, most of African countries have adopted integrated water resource management after the international conference on water and environment, which took place in Dublin in 1992. The implementation of the integrated water resource management has been different within the continent and even within the same region or country. This scenario has produced different results existing within the continent some good experiences while other countries and region are lagging behind. In order to understand the different forms of implementation of integrated water resource management, this chapter describes the process followed in different countries. The description is centered in the policies and other legal instrument enacted by the respective governments, and highlights the key success and failure histories and finally discuss in critical point of view the results obtained from different experiences during the implementation of integrated water resource management in Africa.
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Mutondo, J., Farolfi, S., Dinar, A. (2016). Water Decentralization Experiences: A Literature Review. In: Water Governance Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa. SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29422-3_2
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