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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Kato, Stonewall Shaban; Okumu, James Okot; Obua, Joseph |
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Conference:
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Commoners and the Changing Commons: Livelihoods, Environmental Security, and Shared Knowledge, the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
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Location:
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Mt. Fuji, Japan |
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Conf. Date:
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June 3-7 |
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Date:
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2013 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8919
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Sector:
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General & Multiple Resources
Social Organization |
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Region:
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Africa |
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Subject(s):
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influence
community participation
IASC
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Abstract:
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"Between 2009 and 2010, Community Based Organizations' (CBOs) characteristics, opportunities and challenges faced in the management of forest, water and soil in the Mt. Elgon ecosystem in Uganda were assessed. The aim was to examine how CBO characteristics, opportunities and challenges influence their roles in the management of forest, water and soil resources. The study was conducted on a case of collective action by communities who improved their rights over common resources management by adapting appropriate institutional rules and practices as government role in forest, water and soil resources management dwindles in the area. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions and then entered in SPSS to create data file and later generate descriptive statistics. Multiple Linear Regression (MLR), chi-square tests, Kruskal-Wallis and Median tests were applied to show the relationships between the roles played by CBOs, their characteristics, opportunities available to them and the challenges they encountered while carrying out forest, water and soil management. Results reveal that CBO's longevity, size of area of operations and membership strength have significant positive correlation with CBOs' roles in forest, water and soil management (t=1.617, 0.948 and 0.043 respectively at p<0.05). It is recommended that there is a need to put in place a CBO advisory agency in the Mt. Elgon region to oversee community management of forest, water and soil around MENP."
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