Operationalising Adaptive Capacity - Climate Change and Water Governance: Adaptive Capacity in Chile and Switzerland - page 244

Network indicators Operationalisation Chile Switzerland

Institutional
integration
(Co-ordination)

Co-ordination/Clarity :
Level of integration
between different water
related institutions;
Co-ordinating
institutions;
Relationship between
natural and institutional
landscape.

Quality (MMA) and quantity (DGA) are
managed separately; Rivers are divided up
into different independent sections
(Aconcagua has 4 sections with 3 JdV) so that
delivery of rights are autonomously managed
per section; different responsibilities for water
spread across the different ministries (mining
and hydropower have the money and the
power); drought commission was created by
the president in conjunction with the drought
decree to integrate Interior Ministry, MOP,
and Ministry of Agriculture, presided over by
the Interior Minister; narrow cooperation
between the ministries during 'normal' times;
Mesa Tecnica includes JdVs, DOH and
CODELCO fully, ESVAL participates
intermittently; surface and groundwater
managed through different instruments, but
the new law improves integration of the two
resources through an instrument to improve
the infiltration of the aquifers to recover water
table levels; land and water rights also
separated in law.

Duplication of effort, trying to better coordinate on
natural hazard management as challenges
mount; Water management at canton level is
sector based working group, who are conduct-
ing preparatory meetings to establish a
Wasserkompetenz Zentrum within the cantonal
administration; lack of co-ordination across
different sources/uses (springs, groundwater,
glacier, surface waters, lateral streams, Rhône);
examples of integration of different water
management challenges into one institutional/
infrastructural response in adaptive actions (e.g.
MINERVE, TRC); increasing connection and
integration between communes on water
supply; Coordination within and across Valais
(and also Vaud) for TRC, but not to external
stakeholders in the rest of the Basin (Geneva,
France); CIPEL provides platform for
coordination and collaboration across the
different communes and countries sharing the
Lac Leman; cross sector coordination through
CERISE in water crisis situations; Hydropower
teams at commune levels have close
relationships with communal organisations.

Clearly de fi ned roles and
means of coordination
between institutions
(e.g. ministries) at
different levels of
government and
different sectors.

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