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Where the Power Lies Multiple Stakeholder Politics Over Natural Resources A Participatory Methods Guide

By Bevlyne Sithole, 2002, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) This manual is a participatory methods guide (1) to assist those involved with multiple stakeholder situations or groups to appreciate and acknowledge the relevance and impact of micro-politics on stakeholder relations and resultant cooperative behavior in these groups; (2) to provide a simple and systematic approach or framework to gather and analyze data on micro-politics among multiple stakeholders; (3) to highlight and offer practical suggestions for dealing with some of the methodological issues that influence gathering data on politics and relations among stakeholders; (4) to suggest some methods drawn from participatory methodologies like Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Participatory Action Research (PAR) that can be used in data gathering. Data from two sites in Zimbabwe are presented at various stages and in the annexes to illustrate how this framework can be applied and show the type of data that can be gathered.

SEAGA Macro Level Handbook

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations SEAGA Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis Programme

Gender Assessment for USAID/Tanzania's S.O. 2 Partners

Nancy K. Diamond, Ph.D. with Darry I. Rwegasira, M.A. for EPIQ/Tanzania May 1998 Region: Africa. Task Order name: Tanzania Environmental SO Partner Support Unit. Technical area: Biodiversity Conservation

The case of Duru-Haitemba community-based forest management project in Babati District, Arusha Region, Tanzania

KEYWORD: Community-based Natural Forest Management, Africa. Africa, Tanzania, community forestry, income distribution, logging, degraded lands, institutions, land tenure, policy, property rights, training, communication, equity, gender, case study, lessons learned. SUMMARY: This report assesses the progress made by the first community-based forest management (CBFM) regime in Tanzania, in the Duru-Haitemba forests (DHF) in Babati District, Arusha Region. The DHF is one of the few remaining miombo woodlands in the Babati District, a series of linked ridges of high woodland characterized by open canopy trees of medium height, and interspersed with grassland. By 1995, all 9,000ha of the DHF was under the management of eight registered villages.The CBFM process coincided with significant changes in Tanzania's land policy for the devolution of tenure and resource rights to local levels. The Land Policy (1995), the Land Act (1999) and the Village Land Act (1999) recognized customary land rights as equivalent to more formal based tenure systems and provided mechanisms through which villages may earmark areas for forest management and manage the land as a cooperative. The villages, through their respective village governments (VFG), are the institutional managers of the DHF.Among the many problems listed by the authors as major constraints to the CBFM program in DHF, the following were most pressing: Confusion in jurisdiction over resource access and weak coordination among the different sectors of statutory governance, leading to interagency friction; Poor flow of information among programs, district and villages; Over extended and inadequately trained district experts; Community efforts are frequently undermined by attacks on their capability by doubtful District officials, foresters and academics; VFG, tiring of voluntary work, are becoming less efficient and even guilty of illegal harvesting; Women are left out of CBFM benefits as traditionally, women do not own land or cannot claim rights to trees; Issues of financial accountability and transparency in money matters; Low use-value of the forest and illegal harvesting; Considerable land demand/shortage.

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Engendering Development--Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice

On one level, poverty exacerbates gender disparities. Inequalities between girls and boys in access to schooling or adequate health care are more acute among the poor than among those with higher incomes. These disparities disadvantage women and girls and limit their capacity to participate in and benefit from development. On another level, gender inequalities hinder development. Evidence brought together in this report shows this unambiguously.

Financial Incentives to Communities for Stewardship of Environmental Resources

Financial Incentives to Communities for Stewardship of Environmental Resources Feasibility Study November 30, 2004. Report made available by USAID Asia Near East Bureau.

Policy Formulation and Implementation in Secondary Education Reform: the case of Chile at the turn of the Century

This case study examines secondary educational reform in a favorable social and political context—one of consensus and continuity and in which education received high political priority and resources—by examining its policy process, contents, implementation, and results. The viewpoint is that of the government, in terms of: diagnosing needs and designing and implementing policies and programs, reforming institutions, interpreting results, building agreements, and negotiating conflict.

Understanding and Influencing Behaviors: A Guide

66 This book, designed for field practitioners, explains methods for identigying, collecting, and analyzing information about people's behaviors toward the encironment. By understanding the root causes of unsustainable behaviors, lasting solutions can be found to conservation and and natural resources management issues. This document is the culmination of BSP Africa's Analysis of Behaviors in conservation and Development prject which was begun in 1992. Date: 2000. Author: Bruce Bryers. Program: Africa and Madagascar

GGERI: Review of Methodologies and Procedures for Baseline Assessment, Validation, Monitoring, Verification and Certification

Task Order No. 813 Contract No. PCE-I-00-96-00002-00 Prepared by Vladimir Litvak and David McCauley International Resources Group April 2001 Region: Europe and Eurasia Task Order: Central Asia Water and Energy Policy / BNI (CAR) Tech area: Dissemination of Policy Knowledge/Environmental Communication

ESP-2005-09

Featured articles: Multi-media Campaign: “Water for Life”; “Why I should plant the trees if my dad is still able to do it?”; Gender Needs Assessment for Gender Mainstreaming Strategy; Community Participatory Assessment; Six Water Resource Management Initiatives for ESP in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam; Management Training Series for PDAM Staff Members; PDAM Customer Satisfaction Survey to 10,000 Households; Ulema’s of East Java Fully Supports “Hand washing with Soap Campaign”. Source: http://www.esp.or.id/contents/en_42.php

Expanding Opportunities and Building Competencies for Young People: A New Agenda for Secondary Education

This World Bank policy paper explores the key issues facing secondary education in the 21st century. In the global development community where gains and successes are always hard-won, providing youngsters with a dynamic education that takes them from primary to tertiary education and beyond and that helps spur economic growth is surely one of the best investments a country can make, especially when it is equally available to all young people regardless of gender, income, or ethnic group. Published by the World Bank in 2005

USAID - Biodiversity Reporting (Section 119) FY03

This document presents an overview of USAID’s biodiversity conservation programs. It summarizes programs and activities implemented in Africa, Asia and the Near East, Europe and Eurasia, and the Latin America and Caribbean regions, highlighting achievements in Fiscal Year (FY) 2003. The summary descriptions of projects and activities are focused on the biodiversity conservation components of the programs.1 Many of these programs support other objectives such as improved livelihoods and good governance, in addition to biodiversity conservation.

Towards a New Understanding of Water and Forests

 

USAID Biodiversity Guide for Staff & Parnters

The goal of this Guide is to provide USAID staff and partners with basic information about designing, managing, and implementing biodiversity conservation programs or activities. What do you need to know, as a USAID manager, to design, implement, manage, and evaluate a biodiversity conservation program or activity? What are the critical elements of success for biodiversity programs and activities? How can activities be designed that will simultaneously meet USAID administrative and legal requirements while ensuring that development goals are addressed using best conservation practice and approaches? The Guide is intended for a broad audience including USAID mission and Washington staff, implementing partners, and multiple stakeholders within and across sectors.

Counting on the Environment Forest Incomes and the Rural Poor

Vedeld, P, A. Angelsen, E. Sjaastad and G. Kobugabe-Berg. 2004. Counting on the Environment: Forest Incomes and the Rural Poor. Environment Department Paper No. 98 (499KB PDF). World Bank. Washington, D.C. 114p.

SEAGA Field Level Handbook

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations SEAGA Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis Programme

Multiple products, community forestry and contract design: The case of timber harvesting and resin tapping in Honduras

KEYWORD: Community-based Natural Forest Management, Central America. Central America, Honduras, community forestry, fuelwood, incentives, non-timber forest products, conservation, fire, forest degradation, forest reserve, contracts, forest concession, institutions, property rights, community participation, theft, economic analysis, journal. SUMMARY: A popular response to deforestation and poor utilization of forests in developing countries is to increase the participation of local communities in managing state-owned forests. To encourage protection of the resource from theft and fire, local communities are sometimes granted exclusive rights to collect firewood and non-wood products. State agencies, however, usually retain the rights to harvest the mature timber, which has led to conflicts when harvesting interferes with the community's usufruct rights. In response, a number of different contractual arrangements have been tried, offering the community either a share in the value of the timber or the right to harvest at a predetermined charge. The contract assigns different groups specific rights and residual economic benefits and designates the amount of residual benefits each is to receive. Importantly, opportunistic behavior must be controlled to maximize the resource rent value. As a general rule, maximization requires that the greater a party's ability and inclination to affect the returns to an asset, the greater the share of the residual that party should receive.The author analyzes production trade-offs and contracting problems presented by a combination of usufruct rights to collect pine resin and the Honduran government's claim to charge for timber harvesting rights. The trade-offs occur as tapping deep into the tree generates a greater flow of resin, but can substantially damage the tree's sawtimber value. The analysis indicates the contract fails to establish as residual claimant (beneficiairy) that party possessing greater ability to affect resource use (resin tappers), and therefore fails to maximize the rental value of the forest. This result has broader implications for community forest programs.

Improving Market Access for Central American Certified Forest Products Case Study: Costa Rica

Task Order No. 23 Contract No. PCE-I-00-96-00002-00 Executive Summary Document prepared by: Marielos Alfaro Jorge Rodriguez Prepared for AID/LAC John McMahon, COTR September 1999 Region: Latin America and the Caribbean, Task Order: LAC Timber Certification for Central America, Technical area: Environmental and Economic Growth

Beyond Boundaries: Transboundary Natural Resource Management for Mountain Gorillas in the Virunga-Bwindi Region

126 BSP's Transboundary Project was designed to obtain an overview of, to assess opportunities and constraints for, and to draw lessons learned from TBNRM developments in sub-Saharan Africa to date. Focus is on using collaborative natural resource management approaches to enhance or maintain ecosystem function and biodiversity conservation in large-scale natural systems in transborder areas. This document provides a case study on transboundary conservation of Mountain Gorillas in the Virunga-Bwindi Region as coordinated by the International Gorilla Conservation Programme. Date: 2001. Authors: A. Lanjouw, A. Kayitare, H. Ralner, E. Rutagarama, M. Sivha, S. Asuma, J. Kalpers. Biome: Freshwater Ecosystems. Program: Africa and Madagascar