In this guidebook, we share suggestions for how a team of facilitators and a community forest user group (CFUG) can catalyse and maintain an approach to governance and management that draws on and strengthens the CFUG’s own adaptive and collaborative capacities. This approach fits within the Comm...
McDougall, C.
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Pandit, B.H.
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Banjade, M.R.
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Paudel, K.P.
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Ojha, H.
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Maharjan,M.
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Rana, S.
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Bhattarai, T.
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Dangol, S.
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[Facilitating forests of learning: Enabling an adaptive collaborative approach in community forest user groups: a guidebook]
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Facilitating forests of learning: Enabling an adaptive collaborative approach in community forest user groups: a guidebook
Carrying out action research with forest dependent communities calls for special attention to their tenure arrangement, power relations, heterogeneity and the governance arrangements of the forests they use or manage. This is what over four years of CIFOR s research on adaptive collaborative mana...
Prabhu, R.
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Colfer, C.J.P.
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Diaw, C.
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McDougall, C.
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Fisher, R.
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[Action research with local forest users and managers: global lessons from CIFOR’s research on Adaptive Collaborative Management]
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Action research with local forest users and managers: global lessons from CIFOR’s research on Adaptive Collaborative Management
This report explores criteria and indicators (C&I) for monitoring and assessing the sustainability of community managed forests (CMFs), and offers some insights into methodological tools and conceptual approaches for C&I development. The research was intended to explore the potential value of C&I...
Burford de Oliveira, N.
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McDougall, C.
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Ritchie, B.
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Hartanto, H.
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Haggith, M.
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Setyawati, T.
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[Developing criteria and indicators of community managed forests as assessment and learning tools: objectives, methodologies and results]
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Developing criteria and indicators of community managed forests as assessment and learning tools: objectives, methodologies and results
Criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable forest management are important tools to improve the quality of forest management. In most cases they have been developed by experts, but the participation of stakeholders is essential if the C&I are to be locally relevant and practicable. We asked fo...
Pokorny, B.
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Prabhu, R.
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McDougall, C.
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Bauch, R.
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[Local stakeholders' participation in developing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management]
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Local stakeholders' participation in developing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management
Douthwaite, Boru
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Apgar, J.M.
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Schwarz, A.
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McDougall, C.
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Attwood, S.
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Clayton, T.
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[Research in development: learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems]
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Research in development: learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems