Institutional Development for Good Governance: the role of intermediary NGOs in Pará state, Amazonia

Vasconcellos, Ana Maria de Albuquerque; Sobrinho, Mário Vasconcellos

doi:10.1590/0034-7612131326

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“…This contrasts with traditional understandings of knowledge (Kruger and Johnson, 2010) and practice-based perspectives (Orlikowski, 2002) that see it as embedded in the socially constructed practices that people engage in on a day-to-day basis. These are to the fore in participative approaches to development that take account of local perspectives and knowledge (Vasconcellos and Sobrinho, 2015). Even the methodologies used to enable participation can constrain how indigenous knowledge is constructed and expressed (Sanderson and Kindon, 2004).…”

Section: The International Development Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paradoxes and partnerships: a study of knowledge exploration and exploitation in international development programmes

Lannon

Walsh

2019

JKM

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Purpose This paper aims to look at how organisational partnerships balance knowledge exploration and exploitation in contexts that are rife with paradoxes. It draws on paradox theory to examine the partnership’s response to the explore-exploit relationship. Design/methodology/approach A multiple interpretive case study was used to examine international partnerships in three African countries. These partnerships were between international (Northern-based) non-governmental organisations and local African non-governmental organisations. Findings The research finds that within the partnership, knowledge exploration and exploitation exist as a duality rather than a dualism. This is supported by the acceptance and confrontation of paradoxes of performing and belonging. However, macro-level paradoxes of organising linked to power, culture and epistemologies inhibit further effective confrontation of the explore-exploit paradox. Practical implications The findings can help managers working in international development organisations to understand how learning is enabled and constrained in partnership-based programmes. Originality/value The study provides a novel contribution to knowledge management by applying the paradox perspective to the explore-exploit relationship. This paper extends previous work by drawing on the levels and repertoires present in the paradox perspective to understand how knowledge exploration and exploitation can be mutually reinforcing and can exist as a duality.

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Section: The International Development Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paradoxes and partnerships: a study of knowledge exploration and exploitation in international development programmes

Lannon

Walsh

2019

JKM

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“…Carried out by FETAGRI (Pará State Federation of Agriculture Workers), changes in the rural sector came about and are still coming about from struggle and/or democratic confrontations between organisations of family-based, small-scale rural producers and different levels of governmental administration. This shows the importance of intermediary NGO for making links between grassroots movements and local organisations with different levels of state agents (VASCONCELLOS and VASCONCELLOS SOBRINHO, 2015).…”

Section: Embrapa (Federal Agerncy) Staff Membermentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Governance in the context of partnership means news forms of relationships between civil society, Government and Market to carry out development programmes that involves transparency, accountability and improvement of the efficiency of public programmes and services (VASCONCELLOS SOBRINHO and VASCONCELLOS, 2011;VASCONCELLOS and VASCONCELLOS SOBRINHO, 2015). Thus, governance means a new pattern of management which in some way the partners share valour, ideas, power and resources in favour to a common aim.…”

Section: Governance Spaces and Partnershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This does not mean that all relationships between local organisations and Government need to be mediated by external actors. However, the case of Igarapé-Açú shows that where external actors are present acting as intermediary (VASCONCELLOS and VASCONCELLOS SOBRINHO, 2015), local organisations are more able to respond to the interests of their constituents, the understanding about the significance of partnership and the role of committees is better and the possibility of dialogue between local organisations and local Government has increased.…”

Section: Local Organisation Membermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Partnership inside Governance Spaces: the case of the Municipal Development Forum of Igarapé-Açú, Pará, Amazonia

Sobrinho

Teixeira

2017

Cad. EBAPE.BR

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This paper discusses how partnership between local organisations and Government inside governance spaces affects local development. The aim is to raise some critical issues about the concept of partnership and about partnership effectively for municipal development. Thus, the article uses partnership as its central theory. Specifically, it explores to what extent partnership is an effective strategy for local development in areas of historical conflict between local Government and local organisations in Pará State, Brazilian Amazonia. It focuses particularly on the municipality of Igarapé-Açú, located in north-east of Pará State. Igarapé-Açú was chosen because it is a singular case of local organisations and Government partnership since 2008 when a governance space was created to carry out a partnership process called Municipal Development Forum (MDF). Methodologically, the case study was carried out from a qualitative analysis with data gathered from documents and semi-structured interviews with key-informants. The paper shows that the great challenge to build partnerships between local Government and local organisations is not in these actors capacity to represent the state and civil society in a governance forum, but in their capacity to change the local institutional environment to enable this forum to propose changes in terms of rural development. The paper shows that institutional change does not happen rapidly; changes depend on a particular historical context. In conclusion, the case of Igarapé-Açú shows that in an environment where there is great political conflict much time is needed to create links between the rural actors.Keywords: Partnership. Governance Space. Rural Development. Municipal Development. Parceria em Espaços de Governança: o caso do Fórum Municipal de Desenvolvimento de Igarapé-Açú, Pará, AmazôniaResumo O artigo discute como a parceria entre governo e organizações locais em espaços de governança afetam o desenvolvimento local. O objetivo é levantar pontos críticos sobre o conceito de parceria e sobre a efetividade da parceria para o desenvolvimento municipal. Assim, o artigo utiliza a parceria como teoria central. De forma específica, a pesquisa analisa em que medida a parceria é uma estratégia efetiva para o desenvolvimento local em áreas historicamente marcadas por conflitos entre o governo e organizações locais no estado do Pará, na Amazônia brasileira. O estudo foca-se particularmente no município de Igarapé-Açú, localizado ao nordeste do estado do Pará. Este município foi escolhido por ser um caso singular de parceria entre governo e organizações locais desde 2008 quando foi criado um espaço de governança para estabelecer um processo de parceria, denominado Fórum de Desenvolvimento Municipal (FDM). Metodologicamente, o estudo de caso foi realizado a partir de uma análise qualitativa com dados obtidos por meio de documentos e entrevistas semiestruturadas com informanteschaves. O artigo demonstra que o grande desafio para a construção de parceria entre governo e organizações...

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“…The co-management aspect of a governance systems refers to the process that involves both private and public actors in formal interactions towards NRM. Governance in this context means a new arrangement of management in which in some way the social actors share values, ideas, power, and resources in favor of a common goal [68,69].…”

Section: Multi-partner Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Logging Community-Based Forests in the Amazon: An Analysis of External Influences, Multi-Partner Governance, and Resilience

Espada

Sobrinho

2019

Forests

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Over the last few years, forest-based communities have faced two different but related phenomena. On the one hand, they have become more integrated with global economies, accessing regional and international markets. On the other, they have been pressured by economic groups into becoming part of the ecologically unequal exchange that exports natural resources and generates social and environmental problems at a local level. However, within new approaches to managing common-pool resources in common properties such as sustainable-use protected areas, communities are finding their own ways to be resilient and to face the two phenomena that are part of the same global economic system. Communities have built a multi-partner governance system for forest management and community development that involves agents from the civil society, state and market. Accordingly, multi-partner governance has proven to be a strategy to protect community-based forests against increasing timber market pressure. The question that then emerges is, to what extent has multi-partner governance been effective in supporting forest-based communities to be resilient and to face pressures from the global timber market in forests under community use? The aim of this paper is to analyze forest-based community resilience to the global economic system in situations where common properties are under governance of multiple stakeholders. The research is based on a singular case study in the Tapajós National Forest, Brazilian Amazon, which is a sustainable-use protected area with 24 communities involved in a multi-partner governance system. The article shows that forest-based communities under pressure have been resilient, and facing the global economic system have created a community-based cooperative for managing timber and engaging all partners in the process to improve their collective action. The cooperative provides timber sales revenue that supports community development both through diversification of agroforestry production and building of infrastructure as collective benefits.

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Institutional Development for Good Governance: the role of intermediary NGOs in Pará state, Amazonia

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Paradoxes and partnerships: a study of knowledge exploration and exploitation in international development programmes

Paradoxes and partnerships: a study of knowledge exploration and exploitation in international development programmes

Partnership inside Governance Spaces: the case of the Municipal Development Forum of Igarapé-Açú, Pará, Amazonia

Logging Community-Based Forests in the Amazon: An Analysis of External Influences, Multi-Partner Governance, and Resilience

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