Introducing decentralized pasture governance in Kyrgyzstan: Designing implementation rules

Street-Level Bureaucrats at Work: A Municipality-Level Institutional Analysis of Community-Based Natural Resource Management Implementation Practice in the Pasture Sector of Kyrgyzstan

“…In August, September and October, 2009, in-depth village-level data were collected (the background interviews are not listed in Table 2 because the generated information served only for the identification of the case study sites). At that time, the implementing organization had arrived in the municipalities and started to complement the activities of the municipality administrators (for further details of this two-phase implementation process, see [55]), and the pasture committee establishment process was still ongoing at all study sites. Working rules with different degrees of deviation from the working rules for pasture committee establishment were expected at each site (see Table 3 for an overview of the observations).…”

“…The staff of ARIS supported this process with additional activities from September 2009, onward. This time lag can be explained by a delay in the provision of implementation instructions to municipality administrators by central government bodies in charge of the law design (for details, see [55]). The exact reason why policy implementation by municipality administrators in Ala Too and Bulak started in July 2009, could not fully be verified.…”

“…The changes in the distribution of property rights that were associated with the break-up of the Soviet Union also impacted pasture management in the country. Currently, the second pasture management reform, which embodies CBNRM principles and replaced a lease-based approach [55,56], is in place.…”

Modeling the Ecological Niche of Bacillus anthracis to Map Anthrax Risk in Kyrgyzstan

“…Winter time outbreaks (at this latitude) have been previously attributed to food-borne contamination and moving stressed animals. 31,32 Because of harsh winters in Kyrgyzstan, many animals are housed communally indoors during harsh winters and fed fodder (hay) prepared in the previous summer, raising the risk of food-borne outbreaks. Recent livestock anthrax outbreaks in Bangladesh were hypothesized to be food borne (fodder).…”

Decentralizing Governance of Agropastoral Systems in Kyrgyzstan: An Assessment of Recent Pasture Reforms

“…A key purpose of such papers is to highlight some of the administrative processes at play during decentralization in pasture management. However, few studies in the Kyrgyz context have considered how decentralized administrations develop in terms of participation and input from local communities, the implications of decentralization for social and ecological outcomes in natural resource use, or whether new or ongoing processes of local self-governance are reasserting or strengthening community-initiated rules and practices within an otherwise externally developed governance structure (Sehring 2009;McGee 2011;Crewett 2015a;Dö rre 2015;Ulybina 2015).…”