The workshop should cover the following topic, organised according to local and regional levels:

Sustainable water use and management at local level

1. Productive uses of water in rural areas, water and livelihoods;
2. Multiple use of water in rural areas, issues and conflict;
3. Economics of smallholder irrigation, productivity of irrigation water;
4. Irrigation Management Transfer, processes and issues;
5. From individual users to water management organizations, emerging collective action;
6. Local governance around water, the role of local municipalities, traditional authorities;
7. Developing the water resource locally: socio-economics of water harvesting
8. Communities’ water rights and water rights’ trading

Sustainable water resource management at regional level

9. Balancing objectives: water allocation strategies
10. Participation, negotiation, conflict
11. Water rights markets, intra/inter sectoral issues
12. Setting up catchment management agencies
13. Rural / urban interactions
14. Blue water vs. green water policies
15. Pro-poor water policies

Participants are requested to indicate (1) which topic they wish to address with their written contribution, (2) which topic they would like to see addressed within learning workshops and debates.