1st Edition
Negotiated Learning Collaborative Monitoring for Forest Resource Management
Edited By Irene Guijt
Copyright 2007
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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The first book to critically examine how monitoring can be an effective tool in participatory resource management, Negotiated Learning draws on the first-hand experiences of researchers and development professionals in eleven countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. Collective monitoring shifts the emphasis of development and conservation professionals from externally defined programs to a... Read more
1. Strengthening Learning in Adaptive Collaborative Management: The Potential of Monitoring
Part I: Critical Reflections on Using Criteria and Indicators
2. Community Level Work with C&I: Assessing Limits and Opportunities
3. Constructing Collaborative Monitoring with a Rubber Tappers Forestry Initiative in Acre, Brazil
Part II: Building on Existing Monitoring Systems
4. Imposing Indicators or Co-Creating Meanings Through Joint Reflection? Lessons from Community Forestry in Nepal
5. Helping Village Level Stakeholders Monitor Forest Benefits
6. Forest User Initiatives towards Collaborative Monitoring: The Case of Broom Grass
Part III: Dealing with Difference
7. Towards Collaborative Monitoring in Palawan: Challenges and Lessons Learnt
8. Monitoring as Leverage for Accessing Opportunities: A Story from Bamdibhir Community Forest User Group, Nepal
9. Issue-appropriate Collaborative Monitoring: Examples from Forest Management in Cameroon
Part IV: Adaptiveness in Setting up Monitoring Processes
10. Improving Forest-Based Beekeeping through Monitoring In Chimaliro, Malawi
11. Initiating Collaborative Monitoring in Mafungautsi State Forest, Zimbabwe: Lessons and Experiences
12. Beyond Power Barriers: Collective Monitoring for Political Learning in Jambi, Indonesia
13. Expanding Views about Collaborative Monitoring
Biography
Irene Guijt is an independent researcher and facilitator, with a background in land and water use engineering, particularly in participatory processes related to planning. She specializes in learning processes and systems in rural development and natural resource management that focus on collective action.
'A welcome shift from monitoring as mere data collection that fixates on standard indicators! This in-depth yet accessible analysis will inspire many practitioners throughout the world.' Michel Pimbert, International Institute for Environment and Development 'An extremely insightful book for managers who struggle to design institutional monitoring systems that serve both learning and accountability. All too often . . . the voices of users are lost in the bureaucratic shuffle of data and the interpretation of experts. Guijt skillfully illustrates how, under certain circumstances, monitoring can be an empowering process. . . A real contribution to organizations that strive to make science a truly collaborative effort.' Nancy MacPherson, IUCN - The World Conservation Union
