Mattia Grandi
Since Nov. 2014 I have lived in Addis Ababa, where I’m currently working as Programme Officer at the Governance Department of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (http://www.itacaddis.org/en/index.php).I’ve cultivated research interests in Development Studies, International Relations and Environmental Studies, as well as experienced the proactive management of poverty-reduction programs and humanitarian assistance in developing countries (Nicaragua, Mozambique, and Ethiopia). I hold a PhD Degree in Development Studies, obtained in February 2016 at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) with a Research Project on Hydro-politics in Transboundary Water Management: Conflict, Cooperation and Governance along the Nile River.Since the beginning of my University career I have been focusing on development policies in African studies, developing strong analytical skills and critical acknowledgement of the complex and subtle dynamics of social and economic marginalization. After obtaining my B.A. and M.A. in Development Studies and International Cooperation, I had the opportunity to travel and work extensively in America Latina and Africa: these experiences not only helped me improving technical/managerial and communicative know-how, but also deeply enriched and forged my interpersonal skills. In particular, by conducting investigations over informal economies in Nicaragua, coordinating projects for rural development in Mozambique, and supervising programmes of Water and Sanitation (WaSH) in Ethiopia, have strengthened my skills in capacity building and improved my knowledge on monitoring, reporting and verifications activities. Moreover, the research activities conducted for the fulfilment of the PhD requirements have contributed to improve my skills in searching, collecting, managing and elaborating data, as well as I’ve gained analytical competence, teaching experience, and the expertise to work independently. Finally, my current position as Programme Officer within the Governance Department of the Addis Abeba Office of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation has given me the opportunity to coordinate, monitor and evaluate NGOs' initiatives in Ethiopia as well as it provided me with a privileged perspective over the role of Civil Society and on Governance-related complex issues in state-building.
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Thesis Chapters by Mattia Grandi
The absence of an effective integrated mechanism for the man-agement of the Nile flows has resulted in the persistence of asymmetries among the riparian countries over the control and use of an essential re-source: thus, whether the conflict potential of the Nile waters could turn into a driver for potential cooperation represents the core issue of the pre-sent research. This study explores the processes that have led to the current status quo of the Nile hydropolitics, in the search for alternative in-terpretations to the mainstream perspectives emerging from the existing Literature.
The case-study methodological approach aims at unveiling new empirical insights over the dynamics of transboundary water management in the Nile Basin, through the application of an original theoretical frame-work, which is built upon a multi-disciplinary focus that combines theories of International Relations and Environmental Studies. In particular, the crit-ical assessment over inter-state power asymmetries uncovers the relational process of compliance and contestation to the consolidated hy-dro-hegemonic regime in the Nile Basin, providing an original analysis over material and discursive structures that constitute both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic mechanisms of water control. In so doing, the investi-gative process formulates assumptions over the complex dynamics that shape the current Nile hydropolitics, while at the same time tracing histori-cal processes of intra-basin negotiations over the management of transboundary water resources, as well as exploring possible future sce-narios in terms of both geophysical projections and policy recommendations towards an effective integrated management of the Nile flows.
Finally, providing new elements for the analysis of conflict, coop-eration and governance in international river basins, this study also contributes to the theoretical development of the emerging field of critical hydropolitics.
Papers by Mattia Grandi
The absence of an effective integrated mechanism for the man-agement of the Nile flows has resulted in the persistence of asymmetries among the riparian countries over the control and use of an essential re-source: thus, whether the conflict potential of the Nile waters could turn into a driver for potential cooperation represents the core issue of the pre-sent research. This study explores the processes that have led to the current status quo of the Nile hydropolitics, in the search for alternative in-terpretations to the mainstream perspectives emerging from the existing Literature.
The case-study methodological approach aims at unveiling new empirical insights over the dynamics of transboundary water management in the Nile Basin, through the application of an original theoretical frame-work, which is built upon a multi-disciplinary focus that combines theories of International Relations and Environmental Studies. In particular, the crit-ical assessment over inter-state power asymmetries uncovers the relational process of compliance and contestation to the consolidated hy-dro-hegemonic regime in the Nile Basin, providing an original analysis over material and discursive structures that constitute both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic mechanisms of water control. In so doing, the investi-gative process formulates assumptions over the complex dynamics that shape the current Nile hydropolitics, while at the same time tracing histori-cal processes of intra-basin negotiations over the management of transboundary water resources, as well as exploring possible future sce-narios in terms of both geophysical projections and policy recommendations towards an effective integrated management of the Nile flows.
Finally, providing new elements for the analysis of conflict, coop-eration and governance in international river basins, this study also contributes to the theoretical development of the emerging field of critical hydropolitics.