Serious Game for Participatory Watershed Management Colombia

The document describes the use of a Serious Game (SG) to address challenges in participatory watershed management in Colombia's Campoalegre River basin. By providing an interactive platform, the SG helps bridge knowledge gaps caused by limited baseline data and monitoring, allowing local actors and decision-makers to better understand the basin and prioritize management actions. The application of the SG resulted in improved stakeholder understanding, increased participation, and the generation of actionable inputs for water management planning policies.

• Multi-stakeholder participation in watershed management is often hindered by a lack of monitoring and baseline data, which prevents stakeholders from understanding the watershed's current state and leads to conflicts of interest where individual decisions ignore broader impacts.
• The implementation of a Serious Game (SG) in the Campoalegre River basin improved stakeholders' understanding of the basin, which in turn fostered open debate, increased participation, and the proposal of specific actions for the watershed management plan.
• Serious Games can serve as a tool to bridge knowledge gaps and facilitate collaboration between decision-makers and local actors who may be unfamiliar with existing watershed plans, providing inputs for water management planning policies.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2024). Serious Game for Participatory Watershed Management Colombia. https://www.sei.org/publications/serious-game-for-participatory-watershed-management-colombia/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Serious Game for Participatory Watershed Management Colombia. 2024. https://www.sei.org/publications/serious-game-for-participatory-watershed-management-colombia/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Serious Game for Participatory Watershed Management Colombia |date=6 June 2024 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/serious-game-for-participatory-watershed-management-colombia/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2024serious, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Serious Game for Participatory Watershed Management Colombia}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2024}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/serious-game-for-participatory-watershed-management-colombia/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }