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Supporting Grassroots Resource Management Organizations in Latin America on Natural Resource Management
Project Rationale:
This development-oriented action-research project was designed to identify “models of community forestry facilitation” that have guided the manner in which donors, development agencies, governmental institutions and NGOs have interacted with grassroots community forestry organizations. The project is analyzing the processes that gave rise to these grassroots organizations as well as factors that influence how they interact with or react to assistance programs driven by external stakeholders. At the same time the project is developing and testing methods that may strengthen the ability of grassroots organization to articulate plans and negotiate with agencies and institutions offering assistance. The diverse communities that are participating in this work include community logging associations in Guatemala’s Peten region, farmer’s cooperatives in Siuna, Nicaragua, and community forestry groups in the flooded forests along the Amazon River and in the rubber forests of the western Amazonian state of Acre. The lessons learned from this project should assist programs interested in assisting grassroots forestry movements and the methods developed should have applications for a range of rural forest communities.
Project Data:
Duration: March 2003 to August 2005
Donor: Ford Foundation (FF)
Location: Nicaragua (Siuna), Guatemala (Peten), Brazil (Mamiraua and Acre).
Partners:
CIFOR team:
- Peter Cronkleton
- Doris Capistrano (formerly included Wil de Jong and Carmen Garcia)
Contact Person:
Peter Cronkleton (p.cronkleton@cgiar.org)
Expected outputs:
- 4 community level auto systemization studies
- 4 local context studies
- 2 regional synthesis papers
- 1 project synthesis paper
Major (past) events:
- International community exchange meeting in Peten, Guatemala October 2004.
CGIAR AGM Innovative Marketplace Award “Outstanding Potential Innovative Partnership Program Award” won by ACICAFOC partners (a $US 10,000 dollar prize that went to the ACAFOP and PCaC community organizations)
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