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Rural Water Finance

Financing drinking water services in rural Eastern Africa. Early Stage Researcher: Johannes Wagner (University of Oxford)
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Governance

Water Governance and sub-sector reforms: comparing large scale irrigation and urban water supply in India and Indonesia. Early Stage Researcher: Preeta Dhar (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Methods used:
Mind mapping
Comparative case study analysis
Interviews

Urban Governance

Integrating patterns of urban water governance in Southeast Asia. Early Stage Researcher: Marie Belland (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
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Informal Markets

Understanding the evolution of informal water markets in Eastern Africa. Early Stage Researcher: Gina Gilson (University of Oxford)
Methods used:
Historical institutional analysis
Scoping review
Interviews

Governance Models

Assessing the sustainability of water governance systems in global comparison. Early Stage Researcher: Shahana Bilalova (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
Methods used:
Cluster analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis
Systematic Literature Review

Re-commoning

Emerging re-commoning water governance practices as a response to austerity crises. Early Stage Researcher: Dona Geagea (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Methods used:
Discourse analysis
Interviews

Water and Mining

Water/mining paradigms and the politics of naturalising water overabundance: a comparative study of extractive industries’ politicalmaterial construction of flooding and drainage problems.
Methods used:
InterviewsParticipatory methods

Water Consultancies

Consultancy firms and the circulation of policy paradigms: roles, responsibilities and impacts. Early Stage Researchers: Alejandra Burchard Levine (ARCADIS)
Methods used:
Mind mapping
Content analysis
Systematic Literature Review
Participatory methods

Knowledge Co-production

From participation to co-production of socio-hydrological knowledge. Early Stage Researcher: Paula Zuluaga Guerra (Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua)
Methods used:
System dynamics modeling
Content analysisNarrative analysisThematic analysis
Interviews

EU Water Law

The European Union as an innovator in water governance paradigms. The case of sources, patterns and effects from the Water Framework Directive. Early Stage Researcher: Nina Valin (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Methods used:
Qualitative comparative analysis
Interviews

Urban Water

Managing urban water demand across multiple spatio-temporal scales. Early Stage Researcher: Wenjin Hao (Politecnico di Milano)
Methods used:
Quantitative longitudinal performance data

Drought Mitigation

Rainwater harvesting, storage and use in mitigating drought emergencies in semiarid environments Early Stage Researcher: Radhika Singh (University of Nairobi)
Methods used:
Comparative case study analysisQualitative comparative analysis
Critical grounded theoryRetroduction

Water and Migration

Water scarcity and migration in East Africa. Early Stage Researcher: Sinafekesh Girma Wolde (Politecnico di Milano)
Methods used:
Meta-analytical approaches
Interviews

Reframing Scarcity

Multi-level water allocation and governance in the Segura River Basin. Early Stage Researcher: Javier Rodríguez Ros (Institute de Recherche pour le Développement)
Methods used:
Power analysis

Conflict Nexus

Multi-level assessment of water stress and institutional dynamics in the water-climate-conflict nexus. Early Stage Researcher: Stewart Motta (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Methods used:
Discourse analysis
InterviewsParticipatory methods
This project has been initiated by NEWAVE a project pointing the way forward in the global debate about water governance.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 861509.

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