Stakeholder participation in water management in Vietnam: An analysis of the opportunities for successful stakeholder participation in Vietnam

Abstract

The Dutch stakeholder participation model might be suited for Vietnam, since Vietnam has a lot of water to manage as well, just like the Netherlands. Accordingly, the goal of this thesis is to find out what opportunities Vietnamese water management provides for successful stakeholder participation. To achieve this goal, an evaluative research will be done by conducting a literature analysis and an interview. Opportunities for stakeholder participation in Vietnam are analysed by evaluating practice, using conditions for successfulness. It seems that conditions for successful stakeholder participation are present to a limited extent, but Vietnamese water management does provide opportunities for successful stakeholder participation. However, there are also barriers to overcome, and some conditions were not treated in the selected literature, so the author was unable to pronounce upon those conditions.