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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...

MCA is a decision-making tool developed for complex problems. In a situation where multiple criteria are involved confusion can arise if a logical, well-structured decision-making process is not followed. Another difficulty in decision making is that reaching a general consensus in a multidiscipl...

ACM is a participatory approach that links forest stakeholders, empowers local communities and their subgroups, and strengthens adaptive capacities. It is a value-adding approach whereby people who have interests in a forest agree to act together to plan, observe and learn from the implementation...

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...

Primary aim of the Task Force is to increase understanding of the inter-relationships between traditional and formal (scientific) forest-related knowledge and catalyze potential synergistic application(s) to sustainable forest management. Among its many tasks is to develop and facilitate a proto...

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...

A resource book that includes concepts and terms in participatory monitoring; synthesis of the lessons learned, organized along two broad themes: planning and implementing participatory monitoring and the main impacts of participatory monitoring; and a table of publications organized by theme: fo...