Capacity building for a participatory and decentralized water management model: the Guanajuato State Water Plan

摘要

This paper describes the development of the Guanajuato State Water Plan, Mexico, where a participatory structure and agenda were adopted, in a three-phase process. Soft-systems methodologies and participatory planning methods are applied and a systemic model for integrated planning is proposed. The background and rationale for this planning effort at the sub-basin scale are discussed, and more emphasis is given to the conceptual approaches applied to the different phases in the process. Some of the plan's shortcomings and accomplishments are highlighted.