Abstract:
This study describes the mismatch between required knowledge and efforts by
scientists and stakeholders in the Lake Naivasha basin, Kenya. In the basin, integrated
water resources management (IWRM) suffers from the absence of critically relevant
knowledge. This study further presents a spatial integrated assessment framework for
supporting IWRM in the basin. This framework resulted from an ongoing debate
between stakeholders and scientists studying the basin’s issues. It builds on jointly
identified indicators for sustainable governance, and their interdependency, and
knowledge gaps. For IWRM in the basin this is a first important step towards a more
structured debate on the implementation of IWRM.
