To begin, cultivation of a shared vision between multiple actors at multiple scales is the primary guide for any Source Water Protection (SWP) program. To cultivate a shared vision, NGOs should work with communities and appropriate stakeholders to identify motivators for pursuing SWP and develop a strong understanding of the potential SWP related issues they may want to address.
It is expected that various stakeholders may be involved in each stage of the SWP program process, but not all the same stakeholders may be involved in each of the stages.
CRS expects local stakeholders to co-invest in field interventions, which may include in-kind labor, political capital, technical advice, and financial resources. In the medium to long term, an indicator of success is that local stakeholders and public institutions (including municipal and national governments), large landowners, and private firms co-invest in SWP.
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<aside> ✅ Output: Stakeholder Network Map and understanding of the Social Landscape that SWP is being conducted in.
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Of the many stakeholder mapping guidelines and protocols, we found the WRI Mapping Social Landscapes: A Guide to Identifying the Networks, Priorities, and Values of Restoration Actors document to be the most helpful for our purposes.
This document was adapted into the shortened guidance document provided below for use by CRS staff.
Participatory Social Network Analysis Workshop Guidelines for Source Water Protection.pdf
<aside> ℹ️ Task requirements: 2 members of the SWP team and relevant stakeholders, 1 day.
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<aside> ✅ Output: Physical map with detailed notes from the community about features, concerns, and thoughts on their watershed.
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Developed by Matthew Hamilton, A-MANO is a dynamic and visual mapping tool for community-based development.
It’s a combination of mapping and community development tools that empower local people to analyze their environment, monitor change over time, propose solutions, and plan for a better future. Using A-MANO, development practitioners can gather information about local social and environmental conditions that enable them to make work more effectively. A-MANO is not a stand-alone development methodology. Rather, it is a tool that may be integrated into existing activities and initiatives in order to increase their effectiveness.
In A-MANO, stakeholders transform a satellite image into a dynamic map of the focus area of a community-based development project. In sequential mapping sessions, local people and technical specialists collaborate to put their respective knowledge on the map. In doing, the map becomes much more than a visual representation of the community. When practitioners add to the map the technical data they have gathered, local people gain access to a valuable body of knowledge. What’s more, this knowledge is recorded in an accessible format that they can draw upon in their relations with local governments and NGOs. Or this knowledge may help community organizations (such as a farmers’ cooperative or reforestation committee) work more effectively within the community. And when local people contribute their knowledge to the map, development practitioners gain access to a comprehensive and multi-layered body of data that they can use to improve decision-making and overall project implementation.
CRS Latin America uses this tool extensively and it can be very helpful for informing multiple pieces of Component 2.