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1. Slide 1: Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Decentralisation and Struggle over Water Resources in Mali Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, PhD. Candidate, Roskilde University of and Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS
2. Slide 2: Introduction • Conflict over water resources and decentralisation in Mali • Water scarcity • 2 events • Competition over access • Competition over control
3. Slide 3: Decentralisation in Mali • Transfer of competences to municipalities • Local participation in natural resource management • Success story?
4. Slide 4: Lake Agoufou • Between Gossi and Hombori municipalities
5. Slide 5: Geography - Facts • Permanent in 1991 • Before temporary pond
6. Slide 6: Demography – Facts • 3 ethnic groups • Songhai • sedentary cultivators • Tuareg • semi-nomadic camel herders • Fulbe • semi-nomadic herders and cultivators
7. Slide 7: Seasonal mobility • Seasonal mobility • wetlands and drylands Interdependence
8. Slide 8: Stakeholders and Interests • Stakeholders • Interests Permanent Inhabitants Domestic and productive purposes Temporary inhabitants Access to water and pastures Customary chiefs Control over land and rules NGO Liptako Gourma Planting of Bourgou Municipalities Revenue and power
9. Slide 9: Event 1 • Migrant Fulbe • Transgression of Bourgou • Network of power • Chiefs, NGO Liptako Gourma, municipalities
10. Slide 10: Event 1 • Conflict over Access • Contested ownership • Creation and Marginalisation of “outsiders”? • Decentralisation and exclusion
11. Slide 11: Event 2 • Information signposts • Border regions administrative borders • Protests • Different claim making
12. Slide 12: Event 2 • Conflict over control • Resurrection of historical conflicts • Making of history to fix the present
13. Slide 13: Issues for Further Discussion • Struggles over modes of belonging • Inclusion and exclusion • Identity formation • Realism
14. Slide 14: Thank you for your attention