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increased turnover in WAR-trained personnel (“Champions”); and
possible legal challenges during compulsory licensing.
The risk management and mitigation measures mainly relate to issues of process
(consistency, fairness and reasonableness) regarding legal matters, creative innovation
regarding capacity and resources constraints and shrewd negotiation tactics in dealing
with issues of bad faith and power blocs. A potential fatal risk factor is the lack of high-
level departmental support for the programme, which only a political intervention could
neutralise.
9. Conclusions and way forward
South Africa has embarked on one of the most ambitious redistributive water rights
reform processes in the world. These reforms must be seen as a process, not something
that is accomplished all at once (Ashwin R Seetal & Gavin Quibell, 2003a). Figure 2
depicts some of the complexities and considerations that are factored into the WAR
programme. Although this is a simplistic illustration, that does not give an exhaustive
account of the multitude of considerations, it does indicate the land use and water use
planning linkages and the interfaces between public engagement, planning and the other
water management disciplines. Each box within the diagram can be further exploded out
into greater detail.
The WAR roll-out has commenced, even though the cost and capacity requirements
for the entire programme have not been fine-tuned. Experience to date has demonstrated
the value of practical and common sense approaches to implementation of all aspects of
the programme. These must be mixed with a healthy dose of innovative, out-of-the-box
thinking and, finally, an appreciation that no matter how sophisticated the technical tool
or model is, it has no value and cannot substitute for good-faith people participation in
complex processes of this nature where adaptive management is the preferred and
demonstrated successful approach.
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