Social learning, development of multi-stakeholder platforms and water governance in Brazil

Abstract

The contribution of decision-making spaces is fundamental for the strengthening of water governance. The expansion of these spaces of citizen involvement promotes qualitatively the ability of representation of interests. However, the big challenge is that these spaces become effectively public, both in their format and in their results. Inserted in the Water Governance Process, the concept of social learning opens an exciting space to develop processes of action articulation premised on the notion of "learning together for joint handling and decision-making as well as changes in corporate governance". Basically, the learning strategy is that everyone should know the context of criticality and governance conditions in order to intervene together in contexts of river basins. From the concept of social learning, one aims to meet the challenges of sustainability and integration of the interfaces in water governance, which requires the contribution of different knowledge and interdisciplinarity.