“…One participatory governance approach that has been proposed as an alternative to traditional, topdown approaches is 'co-management' Aziz, 2008;Carlsson & Berkes, 2005;Mukul, Herbohn, Rashid, & Uddin, 2014;Mukul, Rashid, Quazi, Uddin, & Fox, 2012;Mukul, Rashid, Uddin, & Khan, 2016;Plummer & Fitzgibbon, 2004a, 2004bRashid, Craig, Jeffery, et al, 2013;Rashid, Craig, & Kahn, 2015;Rashid & Khan, 2014). Co-management can be defined as "a situation in which two or more social actors negotiate, define and guarantee amongst themselves a fair sharing of the management functions, entitlements and responsibilities for a given territory, area or set of natural resources" (Borrini-Feyerabend, Farvar, Nguinguiri, & Ndangang, 2000, p. 1).…”