Technical and institutional capacity in local organisations to manage decentralised forest resources in Uganda

Turyahabwe, Nelson; Geldenhuys, C. J.; Watts, Stephen; Banana, A.Y.

doi:10.2989/10295920609505263

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“…While there have been many attempts at collaborative forest management among users, local governments, NGOs, CBOs and the central government, results have been consistently disappointing. Although partnerships enhance local management potential, financial and legal means to implement local resource extraction policies are lacking (Turyahabwe et al 2006). There are weak relationships between local institutions and centrally devised policy (Turyahabwe et al 2007;Hartter and Ryan 2010) and between people's perceptions and actual uses of forest resources (Watkins 2009a(Watkins , 2009b.…”

Section: Case I: Uganda's Forestry Sectormentioning

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It takes more than a village: the challenges of co-management in Uganda's fishery and forestry sectors

Lawrence

Watkins

2011

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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Decentralisation policies in least developed countries have emerged in response to failed centralised natural resource governance programmes because high-value natural resources are distributed unequally, with central governments often reaping more than local-level users. Current natural resource governance institutions have been created to remedy the problems that central governments formerly posed. Here, we argue that Uganda's forestry and fishery resources are biologically diverse and thus amenable to current decentralised management programmes, provided that there is compromise between market values and local cultural and subsistence values and uses. We observe, however, Uganda's current institutional arrangement favours the former over the latter and determine that successful natural resource decentralisation requires strengthening local-level natural resource institutions with increased fiscal flow, enforcement, monitoring and judicial powers. A strong and reliable partnership between local-level resource users and the central government is necessary for this to occur.

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Section: Case I: Uganda's Forestry Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

It takes more than a village: the challenges of co-management in Uganda's fishery and forestry sectors

Lawrence

Watkins

2011

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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“…Chi-square and Bonferroni tests were used to analyse associations between respondents" age and lack of interest in participating in forest management. The Pearson chi-square was used where the expected cell frequency was ≥5, while M-L chi-square was used when the expected cell frequencies were lower than 5 (Turyahabwe et al, 2006). However, to identify variables that were independent predictors of participation in forest management, we used logistic regressions from which the estimated odds ratios (y) were derived to ascertain the effects of the predictors on respondents" participation in forest management.…”

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“…Meaningful participation in forest management requires that households should have adequate capacity to manage forest resources. Turyahabwe et al (2006) described capacity as possession of the appropriate legal framework, knowledge, skills and abilities to fulfil a given role. We examined the educational level as an enabler of that capacity.…”

Section: Capacity To Participate In Sustainable Forest Managementmentioning

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Assessing local-level forest use and management capacity as a climate-change adaptation strategy in Vhembe district of South Africa

Ofoegbu

Chirwa

Francis

et al. 2018

Climate and Development

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Community-based forest management is a key climate change adaptation initiative in South Africa. It is aimed at enhancing sustainability of rural household livelihoods and livelihood resilience against climate variability and change. However, lack of capacity at local household level could negate the intended benefits of community-based participatory forest management initiatives. This paper examines the local-level forest use and management capacity of rural households in Vhembe district of South Africa with respect to their adaptation strategy to climate change using the concept of livelihood resilience. A stratified proportionate random sampling technique was used to select 366 households from the study area, which were then sampled through household questionnaire survey. The results showed that households" capacity to participate in, and community leadership ability to mobilize people for participatory forest management was low. Nevertheless the results revealed a widespread aspiration in the study communities to take part in forest management and development initiatives. This calls for the need for significant technical support for households and community leaders towards promoting participatory forest management as a way of ensuring efficiency and effectiveness of forest-based adaptation interventions.

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“…The management of forest resources in Uganda has vacillated from centralisation to decentralisation over the past century (Turyahabwe et al 2006). The first attempt to decentralise was in 1939-1947 with registration establishing local forest reserves under the districts' administration.…”

Section: Management Of Forestry Resources In Ugandamentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, tenure and community forests in Uganda

Banana¹,

Bukenya²,

Arinaitwe³

et al. 2012

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Technical and institutional capacity in local organisations to manage decentralised forest resources in Uganda

Cited by 10 publications

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It takes more than a village: the challenges of co-management in Uganda's fishery and forestry sectors

It takes more than a village: the challenges of co-management in Uganda's fishery and forestry sectors

Assessing local-level forest use and management capacity as a climate-change adaptation strategy in Vhembe district of South Africa

Gender, tenure and community forests in Uganda

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