Multi-level governance gaps in urban water management

This chapter identifies and analyses the primary governance bottlenecks cities face to effective water management within the context of the OECD Multi-level Governance Framework, “Mind the Gaps, Bridge the Gaps”. Such gaps are related to questions of scale mismatch (administrative gap), silos and fragmentation (policy gap), diverging rationales and objectives (objective gap), asymmetries of information (information gap), lack of capacity (capacity gap), insufficient resources (funding gap), integrity and transparency (accountability gap). This chapter portrays their relative importance across the 48 cities surveyed and paves the way for policy responses suggested in Chapter 5.