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• Site Map
• Foreword
  • Foreword
  • Contributors & Copyright
• Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Sites
    • Why Pando and East Kalimantan?
    • Municipal Governments and Decentralisation in Bolivia
    • Municipal Governments and Decentralisation in Indonesia
• Part I. Concepts
  • Wellbeing and Poverty
    • Poverty is More Than Low Income
    • Poverty is a Lack of Wellbeing
    • Poverty and Wellbeing Have Many Dimensions
    • Further Reading
  • Local Governments and Poverty
    • How can Local Governments Reduce Poverty?
    • Four Steps to Improve Local Governmental Action
    • Further Reading
  • Forests and Poverty
    • How do Forests Influence Poverty?
    • What is Poverty in Forest Communities?
    • Are Forests Safety Nets, Poverty Traps or Escape Routes?
    • Further Reading
• Part II. Tools
  • Monitoring
    • What is monitoring?
    • Types of Monitoring
    • Indicators
    • When to monitor?
    • Who conducts monitoring?
    • Linking monitoring to planning
  • Participatory Planning
    • What is participatory planning?
    • Why is participatory planning useful?
    • When and where is participatory planning done?
    • Who should participate?
  • Tool 1: Interactive Mapping
    • What is interactive mapping?
    • Interactive mapping step-by-step
    • Use interactive mapping for monitoring
  • Tool 2: Wellbeing Monitoring
    • What is a local wellbeing monitoring system?
    • Wellbeing monitoring step-by-step
    • Step 1: Define purpose, develop plan and budget
    • Step 2: Develop local poverty indicators and formulate survey questions
    • Step 3: Design the sampling strategy
    • Step 4: Train staff and perform the survey
    • Step 5: Analyse and present the data
    • Step 6: Present findings
  • Tool 3: Community Evaluation
    • Evaluating local government programmes through community focus groups
    • Steps 1-3
    • Steps 4-6
    • Steps 7-8
    • Community evaluation step-by-step
  • Tool 4: Scenario-based Planning
    • What is scenario-based planning?
    • Scenario-based planning step-by-step
    • Visioning
    • Pathways
• Final Remarks
• Acknowledgements
• Additional Resources
• PDF Version

In Bolivia, we would like to thank the citizens and officials of the municipality of El Sena who participated in this research project. They educated and informed us, and in turn were enthusiastic and willing partners in the activities, workshops, meetings and field work of the past several years. We are especially grateful to the Municipal Government of El Sena and mayor Napoleon Antelo for embracing this project and extending their resources to assist us in innumerable ways. In particular, we would like to thank the following members of the El Sena Government and residents: Walter Roca, Luís Lazo, Dionisio Huallas, Walter Huarena, Rodilid Salvatierra, Sonia Vidaurre, Mariano Justiniano, Hugo Zabala, Remberto Forero, Juan Lazo, Félix Patzi, Yasmani Zabala, Emilio Cambero, Moisés Tuno, Onofre Siviora, Jhonny Justiniano, Lady Laura Salvatierra and Florinda Vaca. Many other local organisations deserve our thanks, among them the Prefecture of Pando, the Association of Municipal Governments of Pando (AMDEPANDO), the Bolivian Forest Superintendence and the Fundación José Manuel Pando. Several students did individual research projects that contributed to our work: Jennifer Kleeb, Meike Steimann, Lígia Pereira and Claudia Oemer.

In Indonesia, we want to thank the people and local governments of Malinau and Kutai Barat, as well as more than 200 community assessors for the fruitful collaboration. The district government of Kutai Barat fully covered the costs related to the wellbeing survey of 2006. In particular, we want to thank Rama A. Asia, Encik Mugnidin, Silas Sinan, Fredrick Ellia, Yuvinus Nyintih, Fincen Allotodang, Asrani, Subhan Noor, Sangga Sarira, Firdaus, Abimael, Elivianus, Edi Almudin, Erwin Dani, Eli Surario, Rudi Warjono, Jakaria, Darius Dalip, Kukuh Tugiyono, Doni Tiaka, Brigita Edna, Maria Goretti Dau, Berry Iranon, Harifuddin, Muksin, Supiansyah, Yohanes, Erwin Dani, Mikael Meksis, Yosep Darius, Wehang, Benyamin, Y. Njuk Hanyeq, Mikael Deng, David Erison, Rusandi, Mikael Muis, Y. Silam Ajang, Arlis, Markus, Hang Huvang, Junaidi, Wilhelmus, Yansen Toding Datu, Tusin, Arminsyah Sumardi, Ham Wilhelmus, Ruth Aktalia, Priyana, Rustam, Imanuel, Istanto, Gung Usat, Ami Paramban, Nanda Pratama, Rikardo, Ahmad, Yosep Suparno, Yance, Edy, Victor Yosafat, Nuryani, Waina, Brigita Edna, Cathrin Bullinger, Erna Rositah, Benyamin, Oding Affandi, Agus Andrianto and Bison.

We thank the participants of an international expert meeting at Maurach, Lake Constance (Germany) in May 2006, including Hans Aeppli, Borany Penh, Judith Schlehe, Brian Belcher, Thomas Sikor, Erlinda Montillo-Burton, Rosalie McConnell, John-Andrew McNeish, Everisto Mapedza, Marco Antonio Núñez del Prado Coll, Pablo Pacheco and Martin Tampe, for their insightful contributions to our common exploration of the decentralisation–forest–poverty link.

At the University of Freiburg, we thank Michel Becker and Stefan Seitz for the supervision of their students and their invaluable guidance during the entire project. Carol Grossmann helped initiate the project at the very beginning.

At GTZ Indonesia, we thank Manfred Poppe and Bernhard May for the excellent cooperation, as well as the team of ProBangkit, in particular Roto Priyono.

Friedhelm Betke of CIM/BPS shared his innovative ideas on poverty with the project.

At CIFOR, we thank Rita Rahmawati, Dina Hubudin, Charlotte Soeria, Doris Capistrano, Sonya Dewi, Brian Belcher, Gideon Suharyanto, Atie Puntodewo and Christine Wulandari. We also thank consultant editor Guy Manners.

At BMZ/BEAF, we thank Stefan Krall, Michael Bosch and Iris Schubert.

Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Betsy Campbell and Borany Penh carefully reviewed earlier draft versions of the source book and provided most valuable comments and suggestions for improvement.

Photo by Kristen Evans

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