participatory initiatives, the ZON declaration can be instrumental for redesigning
the role of NGOs in drought adaptation. The ZON declaration refers to the
co-responsibility of all relevant stakeholders, while in its current form it is currently
too broad to elaborate on how to share the responsibility among different stakeholders. During the process of stipulating the details and implementation mechanisms of the ZON declaration, it would be advisable to define mutually agreeable
and feasible mechanisms to assign fair and clear responsibilities to all the involved
stakeholders, with a particular emphasis on dissociating the level of responsibilities
from the level of financial contribution.
Consequently, the main conclusions that are drawn from the Salland case and the
recommendations that are made based on those conclusions pinpoint the significant
role that multi-level actions play in drought adaptation.
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the role of NGOs in drought adaptation. The ZON declaration refers to the
co-responsibility of all relevant stakeholders, while in its current form it is currently
too broad to elaborate on how to share the responsibility among different stakeholders. During the process of stipulating the details and implementation mechanisms of the ZON declaration, it would be advisable to define mutually agreeable
and feasible mechanisms to assign fair and clear responsibilities to all the involved
stakeholders, with a particular emphasis on dissociating the level of responsibilities
from the level of financial contribution.
Consequently, the main conclusions that are drawn from the Salland case and the
recommendations that are made based on those conclusions pinpoint the significant
role that multi-level actions play in drought adaptation.
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/), which
permits any noncommercial use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any
medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, a
link is provided to the Creative Commons license, and any changes made are indicated.
The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the work’s Creative
Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in
the work’s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory
regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt, or
reproduce the material.
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Larrue C, Ramos M-H, Kampa E, Stein U, Tröltzsch J, Vidaurre R, Browne A (2013b) Water
governance assessment tool. With an elaboration for drought resilience. Report to the DROP
project, CSTM University of Twente, Enschede
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The Netherlands
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