Start always with having or making a stakeholder analysis.
Stakeholder mapping.
Who's in?
Initially you might just start out with a desk study, knowing that you're going to,
looking to, water management system, then okay,
you can think about who is involved in the water management system.
Engineers and public authorities.
There are factories that are having waste water.
And people own the land around where the water is running and so on.
But then you have to go out to meet reality and find out who's actually there.
And there you might also distinguish between
different kinds of social categories.
Men and women.
Adults, children.
And different strata of the society.
The rich and the poor.
Those who live close to the water and those who live far from it, and so on.
That's where reality comes in and where you need to be inventive.
Think about that all the stakeholders that you count in in your functional systems,
that there are people who actually have their own daily lives and
their own concerns and worries.
And it should be practical for them as well.
So, try to focus on that aspect.
And if you are working in developing countries or within programs that take
development seriously, think about who are the weakest groups,
and try to find them and make contact with them and hear their story.
Their version of how to live your management, water management system
whatever environmental management system that you're working on.