Ensuring good water governance

This chapter presents progress made by Adherents with water governance, in line with the OECD Recommendation on Water and the OECD Principles on water governance. The chapter explores how Adherents allocate and distinguish roles and responsibilities, and manage water at the appropriate scale(s). It highlights how policy coherence and effective cross sectoral co-ordination can be arranged. It illustrates how capacity can be adjusted to the complexity of water challenges. It also explores the use of data and information to guide policy. It illustrates how to efficiently mobilise finance for water governance, while promoting innovative water governance practices and mainstreaming integrity and transparency. The chapter focuses on promoting stakeholders engagement, managing governance complexity and trade-offs. Finally, it describes monitoring and evaluating mechanisms for water policy and governance.