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A new conservation actor, the forest steward community, is emerging in Central America as an effective collaborator in forest conservation. An innovative participatory research in Guatemala and Nicaragua was conducted aiming to strengthen community capabilities in natural resource management. A G...

Research conducted in Mauritania.

Participatory research with local communities through planning-action-reflection steps attempting to engage in equitable collective action, to secure property rights and to articulate aspirations through development forums. Local officials were also engaged in advocacies for collaborative land us...

A guidebook that resulted from the research project, “Stakeholders and Biodiversity in the Forest at the Local Level,” second of two initiatives between SDC and CIFOR that have worked to improve people’s livelihoods and contribute to sustainable forest through action research. The contents of the...

The Landscape Mosaics project intended participatory action research (PAR) as one of two central approaches in the original research design (the other approach being more conventional research). However there was failure to implement PAR in the 5 sites as described and analyzed in the book entitl...

Provides a set of concepts and practical tools for use by Climate Change Adaptation in Africa program grantees working to support stakeholders (communities, government agencies, policy makers) in their efforts to adapt ? or to help others adapt ? climate  change. The Guide nevertheless presents a...

A research that uses a series of Participatory Action Research (PAR) tools to identify specific management problems, attempts to analyse those problems and establishes collaborative arrangements for future management inputs into the Ottotomo Forest Reserve in the Central Province of Cameroon, one...

Approach implemented by the African Highlands Initiative in its technology adoption program. It features the inclusion of farmers in AHI’s research processes. It also adopts a team-based, multidisciplinary approach toward solving locally identified problems.

A good example of important outcomes (policy and institutional change) from action research in the governance domain, though not focused specifically on climate change.

PENAPH implements a program integrating targeted action research, policy enhancement and education. It nurtures collaborative research and diffusion of learning among experts in participatory epidemiology from around the world, to speed detection of emerging or re-emerging diseases. Emphasis is p...