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https://doi.org/10.5194/hessd-4-1917-2007
https://doi.org/10.5194/hessd-4-1917-2007
28 Jun 2007
 | 28 Jun 2007
Status: this preprint was under review for the journal HESS. A revision for further review has not been submitted.

Watershed regulation and local action: analysis of the Senegal River watershed management by a regional organisation and public participation

A. M. Sène, S. Bonin, and O. Soubeyran

Abstract. Several social scientists have dealt with the usefulness of a participative approach in development plans. The call for sustainable development has increased the focus on this type of approach in a very classical way, which is the case for the creation of new water tanks. Most of these scientists have also pinpointed the major difficulties and failures faced during the execution of this new approach in developing countries. This study is a concrete example which underlines the lack of this type of approach as far as water management in the Senegal River is concerned, mainly in relation to watershed. We base our study on the analysis and criticism of the regional organization OMVS (Organization for the Development of the Senegal River) which is in charge of water management in the Senegal River. The results of the study can, therefore, be summed up as follows: (i) An on-site direct observation, individual interviews, group discussion and information analysis point out the lack of participation of local people in water management in the Senegal River and, in general, the harmful socio-economic impacts resulting from it. (ii) The reasons for this lack of participative approach are mainly due to the model set up by the OMVS in terms of water management in the Senegal River, a model that has excluded or tackled in a very light way the issue of public participation in decision-making through out its juridical and regulation instruments. (iii) Elements of consideration on some measures, which could possibly improve the level of participation of local people in river water management.

A. M. Sène, S. Bonin, and O. Soubeyran
 
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