There is evidence to suggest that exclusive community management of natural resources may have some challenges whilst exclusive state management is problematic. The optimum is a collaboration between communities and state in managing natural resources. In most cases, communities appear to be skeptical of state agencies. How best could this whole collaboration process get kick-started? Can there be a framework to help a practitioners or state agencies who want to engage resource communities for such a collaboration?
in the paper below,
"Rising to the challenge: A framework for optimising value in collaborative natural resource governance." Forest Policy and Economics 67 (2016): 20-29
authors attempt to discuss a framework that wil facilitate the collaboration process through an ABC framework. Is the framework elaborate? are there other alternative approaches to maximise gains in CNRM?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116300089
Hi Emmanuel.
If you are not familiar with the work of Elinor Ostrom, the book below might be of interest to you:
Elinor Ostrom
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
See, for example, at:
https://www.amazon.com/Governing-Commons-Evolution-Institutions-Collective/dp/0521405998
Best, D.A.
Hi Emmanuel,
Maybe this can help you.
http://www.iclei-europe.org/fileadmin/templates/iclei-europe/files/content/Topics/Water/SWITCH_Adaption-Handbook_final_small.pdf
Generally speaking given the limited resources underlying most governments particularly in the tropics, working wiith local communities in terms of collaborative management is inevitable not withstanding the challenges including lack or minimal incentives given to the local communities.
Thank you senior colleagues for the insight; in an attempt to uncover the phenomenon, i present to you an 'ABC' framework which will seeks to provide some directions to practitioners, researchers and conveners on how to embark on collaborative on co-management processes. please the paper below
Yeboah-Assiamah, Emmanuel, Kobus Muller, and Kwame Ameyaw Domfeh. "Rising to the challenge: A framework for optimising value in collaborative natural resource governance." Forest Policy and Economics 67 (2016): 20-29.
Highlights of the paper
•Collaborative natural resource governance promises benefits [value] to both state agencies and communities concerned.
•Enhancing the benefits requires a socio-technical process involving an ABC approach. ABC framework
- Advancing human skills
- Building integrity and legitimacy
- Creating a sense of attachment to the resource
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116300089
Hi Emmanuel, we have developing target-oriented approach as a collaborative approach to natural resource governance in British Columbia and Ontario for 20 years. The forest simulation and optimization system (FSOS) model has been applied in many projects, you can serach FSOS in www.gov.bc.ca/for web site and find a lot of reports, some TFLs are community forests. We have a cloud service forestcloud.ca, an attached files is the introduction of FSOS.
Emmanuel,
You can also try these reads which are drawn from RSA and Tanzania
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231884447_Attitudes_of_coastal-forest_users_in_Eastern_Cape_Province_to_management_options_arising_from_new_South_African_forest_policies?ev=prf_pub
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260591953_Degradation_species_invasion_and_management_in_Tanzanian_dry_forests_what_do_local_people_say?ev=prf_pub
Best regards
John
Article Attitudes of coastal-forest users in Eastern Cape Province t...
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Ah, Emmanuel, one of the challenges of our age. If we want to conserve natural resources, or manage them in such a way that most if not all are conserved, the simplest solution is to find a Doug Tompkins who acquired enough Chilean rainforest between the Pacific and Argentine border to divide the country (in more ways than one) and buy the lot. Have you called on Mo Ibrahim?
More seriously and as you have concluded, in most cases one needs to reconcile both community and state interests, striving to involve each side as partner in a team effort. Such collaboration can be essential both to garner enough political will and public funding at first to get an idea off the ground and, afterwards, to ensure its sustainability.
A few of us face a similar challenge in Portugal where we hope to create a major reserve. While individual donors and companies are certainly in our sights, most support is likely to come from Brussels which will require not just some endorsement from national and local authorities but also community and other stakeholder participation.
Our task, probably unlike yours, is simplified by the decline of small-scale agriculture and migration from the land, an increasingly common phenomenon here and elsewhere. Nevertheless, we aim to win over a government indifferent to conservation and opposed to incurring any such costs, a largely apathetic community and, perhaps, even persuade some hostile eucalyptus plantations by proposing various strategies. Among them:
- employ the unemployed, much as a visionary Theodore Roosevelt did during the Great Depression, in restoration work;
- promote the area's considerable ecotourism potential;
- make a compelling case for the region as a climate change refuge;
- document and stress its outstanding surviving biodiversity;
- encourage extraction of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) such as cork;
- offer an opportunity to cellulose companies to improve their reputations.
You might also want to consider the strategy used in Guatemala's Petén, a situation which may be closer to yours: http://www.cifor.org/acm/download/pub/grassroot/Peten%20guatemala_eng%20All.pdf
Finally, several NGOs - CI for example (http://www.conservation.org/where/pages/sub-saharan-africa.aspx) - have undertaken similar initiatives in various parts of the world. And UNEP in Nairobi (http://web.unep.org/regions/roa/) should also provide ideas and case studies.
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