A Methods Workshop on 'Games for Social Learning on Water Governance' was presented during the IASC 2021 Water Commons Virtual Conference organized by the International Association for the Study of Commons on May 21, 2021. The workshop was led by Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI), Thomas Falk (ICRISAT), Pratiti Priyadarshini (Foundation for Ecological Security), and Richu Sanil (Foundation for Ecological Security). The workshop presented the use of behavioral games as part of a well-structured interventions package for experiential social learning to improve water governance. The interventions have been tested in more than 500 communities and are currently being rolled out in over 2,000 additional ones in India through a collaborative project by Foundation for Ecological Security, International Food Policy Research Institute, International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, and Martin-Luther University-Hall. The workshop also demonstrated the play of a surface water game simulating maintenance of a shared facility and sharing of water among players and addressed practical issues as well as findings to date on how these games and community debriefing can contribute to changing mental models and social learning for water collective water governance. The training had a total of 47 participants (29 females, 19 males).
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