Framing Water Policies: A Transdisciplinary Study of Collaborative Governance; the Katari River Basin (Bolivia)

Collaborative water governance deals with diverse actors under participatory systems of decision making. This form involves stakeholders fundamentally different values and premises about resources, as well understandings the problem how to approach it. Thus, one major challenges collaborative relies on diversity frames carried by involved shift from hierarchical decision-making a more participative process. The fragmentation can represent an obstacle, impede mutual understanding, negatively influence making policy outcomes. Based observation, interviews, document analysis, we explored drivers behind framing process in multi-actor platform Katari River Basin, located Bolivia. results highlight design favoring unidirectional process, where public authority, scientific–technical expertise, local community’s knowledge are insulated, communication among is asymmetrical. At same time, this research reveals political context