EWSC Action Area Projects
Community-led stewardship models
Develop and test a community led stewardship model that empowers communities to incorporate, operate and maintain water-smart assets that meet the principles of Integrated Water Management
Project Description
This project is developing a community led stewardship model through four steps:
Understanding and assessing existing stewardship models.
Co-designing a new community led stewardship model.
Identifying a suitable residential development site to demonstrate the model.
Producing a replicable model that can be applied to all development types.
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Note: All EWSC outputs can be accessed via our Project Reports page.
Project Outputs
Community-led stewardship models: Research insights
This workstream uncovered insights on the challenges and barriers associated with implementing community stewardship, and developed approaches for overcoming these – leading to the development of a Blueprint for water stewardship for use at different stages of community development.
You can view the research insights and the Water Stewardship Blueprint on EWSC’s Stewardship Notion page.
Our research also explored funding and finance for delivering environmental and social outcomes, an important consideration that underpins stewardship. A high-level review was conducted of funding and finance models that have been used to deliver environmental improvement, across energy, water and nature sectors, both in the UK and globally.
The review identified suitable options for the EWSC programme and proposed a roadmap for taking these forwards. You can view the findings from the funding and finance workstream in these two documents:
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