CHALLENGES

Stakeholders need to genuinely engage in the water issue. An engagement process needs data and information that they trust In many cases, we will have stakeholder engagement processes where people have their own data and they believe different sets of data. There is a lot of support that is needed in this region to get to position where everybody trusts the same set of data.

Data sharing or how to use the data is also important, yet possible. It is very difficult to integrate data as open data not only for the public, but also for intergovernmental organizations.

Data sharing is actually a really critical point and a very politically sensitive issue and very hard to achieve. An area where we really need to start working is trying to get ministries to come to an agreement where they share data and they do not charge each other costs for that data where they share it for the good of natural resource management for the country