• Home
• 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

This publication is a collaborative effort by the following researchers, in alphabetical order:

Marco Antonio Albornoz
Michel Becker
Ade Cahyat
Peter Cronkleton
Wil de Jong
Kristen Evans
Dante Fuentes
Christian Gönner
Rolando Haches
Michaela Haug
Ramses Iwan
Godwin Limberg
Moira Moeliono
Eva Wollenberg

Partner institutions:

• Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University, Japan
  Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), Germany
  
• University of Freiburg, Germany
  
• The Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, Switzerland
  
• District Government of Kutai Barat, Indonesia
  
• District Government of Malinau, Indonesia
  
• Municipal Government of El Sena, Bolivia

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), Germany provided the funding for the research and development of this publication.

© 2007 Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior permission of the publishers. Proper citation is requested:

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) 2007 Towards wellbeing in forest communities: A source book for local government. CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia. 90p.

ISBN: 978-979-1412-20-9

Key words: Poverty, wellbeing, local government, decentralisation, forests, community, rural development, monitoring, scenarios, GIS, mapping, indicators

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