Socially Responsive Water Adaptation Planning: Bolivia, Cambodia

The document presents Community-Informed Water Systems Modelling (CI-WSM), a framework that integrates socioeconomic data and stakeholder participation into water planning models to address inequalities in water access. Tested in Bolivia and Cambodia, the approach uses a five-phase process to ensure that marginalization and cultural norms are reflected in water resilience analysis and policy strategies.

• Community-Informed Water Systems Modelling (CI-WSM) is a participatory framework that integrates social dynamics—such as marginalization, cultural norms, and unequal access—into water planning models to ensure these factors influence how water challenges are defined and assessed. It is designed to be flexible and compatible with existing tools like the Water Evaluation and Adaptation Planning (WEAP) model.
• The CI-WSM framework operates through five distinct phases: contextual analysis, co-development with stakeholders, the integration of social and biophysical data for baseline conditions, future resilience analysis using climate and socio-economic scenarios, and the translation of results into actionable policy strategies.
• Case studies in Marquina (Bolivia), Tupiza (Bolivia), and Stung Chinit (Cambodia) demonstrate that combining qualitative and quantitative methods improves the representation of water rights, upstream-downstream inequities in collection burdens, and the relationship between poverty and water use in rural and urban settings.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2026). Socially Responsive Water Adaptation Planning: Bolivia, Cambodia. https://www.sei.org/publications/socially-responsive-water-adaptation-planning-bolivia-cambodia/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Socially Responsive Water Adaptation Planning: Bolivia, Cambodia. 2026. https://www.sei.org/publications/socially-responsive-water-adaptation-planning-bolivia-cambodia/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2026socially, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Socially Responsive Water Adaptation Planning: Bolivia, Cambodia}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2026}, month = feb, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/socially-responsive-water-adaptation-planning-bolivia-cambodia/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }