A case for gender equity in governance of the Okavango Delta fisheries in Botswana

Ngwenya, Barbara Ntombi; Mosepele, Ketlhatlogile; Magole, Lapologang

doi:10.1111/j.1477-8947.2012.001450.x

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“…• Gimenez and Perez-Foguet (2010) use participatory methods to good effect in a policy impact assessment. • Ngwenya et al (2012) show that short-term intervention studies miss out the key gender issues, including gross invisibility of women's work in a fisheries context in Botswana. Solutions are found through discussion.…”

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Bridging to Action Requires Mixed Methods, Not Only Randomised Control Trials

Olsen

2019

Eur J Dev Res

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Development evaluation refers to evaluating projects and programmes in development contexts. Some evaluations are too narrow. Narrow within-discipline impact evaluations are weaker than multidisciplinary, mixed-methods evaluations. A twostep process leads toward profoundly better arguments in assessing the impact of a development intervention. The first step is setting out the arena for discussion, including what the various entities are in the social, political, cultural and natural environment surrounding the chosen problem. The second step is that, once this arena has been declared, the project and triangulation of data can be brought to bear upon logical arguments with clear, transparent reasoning leading to a set of conclusions. In this second step, we do need scientific methods such as peer review, data and so on, but, crucially, the impact evaluation process must not rest upon a single data type, such as survey data. It is dangerous and undesirable to have the entire validity of the conclusions resting upon randomised control trials, or even a mixture of data types. Different contributions to knowledge exist within the evaluation process, including the interaction of people during action research, ethnography, case-study methods, process tracing and qualitative methods. The cement holding my argument together is that multiple logics are used (retroductive, deductive, and inductive, in particular). Deductive mathematics should not dominate the evaluation of an intervention, as randomised controlled trials on their own lend themselves to worrying fallacies about causality. I show this using Boolean fuzzy set logic. An indicator of high-quality development evaluation is the use of multiple logics in a transparent way. Keywords Evaluation • Randomised control trials • Comparative case-study research • Methodology • Retroduction • Mixed-methods • Impact evaluation Resume L'évaluation du développement se réfère à l'évaluation de projets et programmes dans le contexte du développement. Certaines évaluations sont trop restreintes. Les évaluations étroites, au sein de la même discipline, sont plus faibles que les évalua-Extended author information available on the last page of the article terventions en matière de développement, un procédé a deux étapes nous aide à bâtir des argumentations beaucoup plus fortes. La première étape est d'établir l'espace de la discussion, y compris les organismes sociales, politiques, culturales et naturels qui encerclent le problème choisi. La deuxième étape, une fois cet espace est défini, est d'utiliser le projet et la triangulation des données de forme logique, produisant un raisonnement transparent et clair qui nous amène à des conclusions. Cette deuxième étape nécessite de méthodologies scientifiques tels que la révision par des pairs, l'utilisation des données, etc. C'est crucial que le processus d'évaluation des impacts ne s'appuie pas que sur un seul type de données, comme par exemple les données d'enquête. Que l'ensemble de la validité des conclusions soit basé que sur des e...

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Section: Rebutting Three Misunderstandingsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Bridging to Action Requires Mixed Methods, Not Only Randomised Control Trials

Olsen

2019

Eur J Dev Res

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“…However, a fish stock assessment revealed that the fish stocks were still healthy [87,101,102] and that perceptions of overexploitation were driven by a motive for exclusive access to the fish resource by recreational fishers [87,101]. Despite the obvious reliance on indigenous knowledge by commercial fishers, current government policy has not integrated this into natural resource management in the delta [103]. Moreover, the lack of a national fisheries policy [83,100] has always made it difficult to implement comprehensive management strategies which include gender equity in the fisheries sector [104].…”

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“…In his opinion, the socioeconomic remoteness of these inland fisheries, which are small-scale in nature, is related to the relatively low incomes of their fishers and the fact that they belong to ethnic groups of low status. This is particularly relevant in systems such as the Okavango Delta where women are a major subsistence group that is generally marginalized in the prevailing management regime as observed by Ngwenya [103]. Therefore, there is need for a comprehensive management of floodplain fisheries which should be sensitive to issues of (ethnic and gender) equity.…”

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Classical Fisheries Theory and Inland (Floodplain) Fisheries Management; Is there Need for a Paradigm Shift? Lessons from the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Mosepele¹

2014

Fish Aquac J

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This paper reviews the fisheries management question of inland (floodplain) systems in the developing world and proposes a paradigm shift in approach. Inland fisheries management is largely based on classical fisheries formulations derived on temperate freshwater and marine single-stock fisheries. The basic models to manage inland fisheries are based on steady state equilibrium models. However, inland, flood-pulsed fisheries are dynamic and driven by external factors which are incongruent with the classical approach. Therefore, adopting this management approach in inland, flood-pulsed fisheries has created a management conundrum because of the obvious fundamental differences that exist between these two systems. Marine fisheries contribute to the macroeconomic growth of fishing countries, inland fisheries from developing countries are largely focused on recreational activities, while inland (floodplain) fisheries are key sources of food and nutrition security for marginalized riparian communities in the developing world. This review also uses lessons from the Okavango Delta fishery to illustrate the uniqueness of floodplain fisheries and the management questions therein. One key debate highlighted in this review is that inland fisheries are a livelihood of the last resort for poor (and sometimes malnourished) communities. Management should therefore mainstream this value into management interventions, especially since a sustainable utilization of this resource can assist developing countries to achieve some of the MDG's. The paper concludes with an argument of the need for a paradigm shift in inland fisheries management, where key factors such as enhanced data collection, co-management regimes based on "real" democratic principles constitute some of the germane attributes of fisheries management plans.

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“…A more fundamental step towards co-management is to recognise the interests of groups that have been historically disadvantaged, such as women fisher groups [29]. Indeed women basket fishers in the Delta are not organized in any formal grouping and are therefore not part of any management process [42]. While subsistence fishing is a major source of livelihoods in the Delta's communities [43], especially basket fishers to whom fishing is also a form of cultural expression [30], their concerns need to be integrated into the proposed co-management paradigm.…”

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Conflict Resolution and Management between Local Fishers and Tour Operators in the Okavango Delta’s Panhandle, Botswana

Mosepele¹,

Mmopelwa²,

Kgathi³

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Conflicts among different fisher groups are a global concern, and the Okavango Delta fishery is no exception, which is composed of commercial, subsistence and recreational fishers. Possibly due to conflicting value/use systems, and ill-defined user rights, there have been documented cases of conflict between commercial and recreational fishers, which may affect livelihoods for local fishers. Therefore, this study's aim was to identify causes of conflict between these groups and to propose management inventions. Primary data collected in three fishing villages showed that lack of access, misconceptions about each other, and overlapping use were identified as some of the major causes of conflict. Subsequently, this paper proposes a spatial and temporal zoning of fishing grounds as a management tool towards conflict resolution. One proposal is that recreational fishers can utilize the main channel, commercial fishers the floodplains and lagoons, while basket fishers can utilize the fringes of floodplains, lagoons and river channel. Moreover, a co-management regime has also been developed in the fishery, upon which a code of conduct was developed to also reduce conflict in the fishery. It is envisaged that this approach will reduce conflict and create an enabling environment for efficient and sustainable fish utilization in the Delta.

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A case for gender equity in governance of the Okavango Delta fisheries in Botswana

Cited by 17 publications

References 19 publications

Bridging to Action Requires Mixed Methods, Not Only Randomised Control Trials

Bridging to Action Requires Mixed Methods, Not Only Randomised Control Trials

Classical Fisheries Theory and Inland (Floodplain) Fisheries Management; Is there Need for a Paradigm Shift? Lessons from the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Conflict Resolution and Management between Local Fishers and Tour Operators in the Okavango Delta’s Panhandle, Botswana

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