ABSTRACT
The use of the guidelines initiates a process towards balancing the interests of different stakeholders in water. The guidelines can be applied in different stages of the project cycle: sector policy making, sector planning, institutional design and management arrangements for the sector and for specific projects. The process in itself is cyclic and by monitoring the effectiveness of the interventions new problems and constraints can be identified and corrective actions or new solutions have to be sought. During the test local experts carried out the first two steps in the framework cycle: a description of the existing water resources management situation and an assessment of the desired Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) situation. As the aim was testing the methodology, the IWRM content of the outcome can not be taken as representative for the respective countries. The results of the process tests lead to an improvement of the analytical framework, guidelines and interview procedures.
