Presented at the 10th meeting of the Water Governance Initiative, 20 - 21 November, Vienna

1. Water International
special issue mid-
launch
OECD Principles on Water
Governance

2. Water International
O The official journal of the International
Water Resources Association (IWRA)
O WI established in 1975
O Published in cooperation with Taylor &
Francis (Routledge)
O 8 issues a year, about half of them special
thematic issues

4. November 2017 issue
O The OECD Principles on Water
Governance: from policy standards to
practice
O Guest editors (issue Editorial Board):
O Aziza Akhmouch, Delphine Clavreul, Sarah
Hendry, Sharon Megdal, James E. Nickum,
Francisco Nunes-Correia & Andrew Ross
O Selected on basis of having both academic and
policy backgrounds

5. contents
O Introduction to the issue
O Introduction to the OECD Principles
O Research papers by interdisciplinary,
academic cum policy teams of authors

6. Research papers (1,2/5)
1. Addressing the policy implementation gaps in
water services: The key role of meso-
institutions
Claude Menard, Alejandro Jimenez and Hakan
Tropp
2. OECD Principles on Water Governance in
practice: An assessment of existing
frameworks in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa
and South America
Susana Neto, Jeff Camkind, Andrew Fenemor, Poh-
Ling Tan, Jaime Melo Baptista, Marcia Ribeiroh,
Roland Schulze, Sabine Stuart-Hill, Chris Spray and
Rahmah Elfithri

7. 3,4/5
3. Stakeholder engagement in water
governance as social learning: lessons from
practice
Uta Wehn, Kevin Collins, Kim Anema, Laura Basco-
Carrera and Alix Lerebours
4. Functions of OECD Water Governance
Principles in assessing water governance
practices: assessing the Dutch Flood
Protection Programme
Chris Seijger, Stijn Brouwer, Arwin van Buuren,
Herman Kasper Gilissen and Marleen van Rijswick

8. 5/5
5. The evolution of water governance in
France from the 1960 s: disputes as
major drivers for radical changes within a
consensual framework
Marine Colon, Sophie Richard and Pierre-Alain
Roche

9. Availability
O On-line by end of November
O Hard copy by mid-December
O Will be launched at 8WWF in Brasilia
O Not open access (except IWRA members)
But:
O A confidential A4 prelaunch Prepublication
version has been included here in your
materials!

10. Possible followups
O Water International Policy Brief
O Webinar
O Republication in book form by Routledge

11. Many thanks
O To the authors
O To the editorial committee
O To the external reviewers, many of them
from among your ranks
O To Delphine and, most of all,
O To Aziza from beginning to end