Print Email Facebook Twitter Influence of personal attributes and demographic diversity on Nzoia basin negotiation outcomes Title Influence of personal attributes and demographic diversity on Nzoia basin negotiation outcomes Author Onencan, A.M. (TU Delft Policy Analysis) Enserink, B. (TU Delft Policy Analysis) van de Walle, B.A. (TU Delft Multi Actor Systems) Department Multi Actor Systems Date 2019 Abstract The Kenyan government has made significant advances in water resources management at the local authority (county) level with little or no cooperation at the drainage basin level. Research on critical determinants of cooperation amongst transboundary water negotiation teams is limited. In this paper, we assess whether personal attribute diversity (PAD) is a stronger factor than demographic diversity (gender, age, and education play) in determining whether the negotiation team will cooperate or make unilateral actions. We use a negotiation game to study decisions taken by water policymakers. After that, we conduct a multiple discriminant analysis (MDA) to assess the influence of PAD, gender, age, and education on water negotiation outcomes. The findings indicate that PAD plays a significant role in determining whether the group will cooperate or compete. Gender, education, and age barely influence the outcome. Only upon removal of the PAD variable do we see an increase in the discriminant power of gender and education. Age has minimal influence on the negotiation outcomes. We apply the research at a lower level of governance (Nzoia River Basin). However, results might be extrapolated to a bigger basin, like the Nile Basin, through future multiple level analysis which takes account of the complex socio-technical systems. Subject CooperationDemographic diversity (DD)Multiple discriminant analysis (MDA)Negotiation gameNegotiation teamsNzoia River BasinPersonal attributes diversity (PAD)Shared superordinate identity (SSI)Unilateral actionsWater resources management To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6b60ea3f-7d7a-42da-a7d9-c3b5513ad391 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/w11020227 ISSN 2073-4441 Source Water, 11 (2) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 A.M. Onencan, B. Enserink, B.A. van de Walle Files PDF water_11_00227.pdf 1.67 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6b60ea3f-7d7a-42da-a7d9-c3b5513ad391/datastream/OBJ/view