Articles | Volume 26, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1357-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1357-2022
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11 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 11 Mar 2022

A review of the applicability of the motivations and abilities (MOTA) framework for assessing the implementation success of water resources management plans and policies

John Conallin, Nathan Ning, Jennifer Bond, Nicholas Pawsey, Lee J. Baumgartner, Dwi Atminarso, Hannah McPherson, Wayne Robinson, and Garry Thorncraft

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Implementation failure is well known to be a major barrier to the success of water resource plans and policies. The motivations and abilities (MOTA) approach attempts to address this barrier, by providing a multi-stakeholder, multilevel tool to assess triggers, motivations and abilities supporting the implementation feasibility of plans. We review existing MOTA applications in various water management contexts and propose several complementary add-in applications to complement the approach.