Browsing by Author "Hartanto, Herlina"

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Facilitating Collective Action and Enhancing Local Knowledge: A Herbal Medicine Case Study in Talaandig Communities, Philippines
(2006) Hartanto, Herlina; Valmores, Cecil
"The indigenous people of Talaanding in Basac village, Bukidnon, the Philippines, had to deal with a high occurrence of disease and a high number of malnourished children in their village. This situation was due to the inability of the local health clinic to provide adequate health service and medicine to the community. Using an approach that promotes social learning and collective action, a CIFOR Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) research team facilitated a group of women, mostly the village health workers, in addressing their local health problems by using their local knowledge of medicinal plants and herbal medicines. This paper describes the ACM concept and the social learning processes that the women went through in identifying their health-related problems in the village, devising strategies to deal with those problems, monitoring the outcomes of their action, and improving their subsequent strategies. This paper also shows that the ACM processes promoted not only collective action and social learning among the women, but also helps to revive local knowledge of herbal medicines and conserve genetic resources in the area. The sustainability of the women's efforts will depend on their ability to mobilize more community members to manage the established herb gardens, to enforce rules so that the costs and benefits of the gardens can be shared more equally, to link-up with local government and other stakeholders, and to continuously learn and adapt their management strategies."
Local Monitoring: A Potential Tool For Collective Action Learning In Common Resource Management
(2004) Hartanto, Herlina
"This paper argues that monitoring is a potential tool to facilitate collective action and learning between the communities and other stakeholder. It also argues that for monitoring initiatives to be sustained, the process of developing monitoring system should be initiated at the grass-root level by the communities and other concerned local stakeholders in a participatory way, based on their shared common concerns, and for their own purpose. This paper will first outline CIFORs adaptive collaborative management project, its concept, and the importance of monitoring in this kind of management. This will be followed by a brief description of the site in Palawan, Philippines, where local monitoring system was developed by the community and local stakeholders. The following sections describe the processes that the community groups and other local stakeholders went through in their joint efforts to develop local monitoring system, how the bottom-up development processes provide a platform for collective action and learning among the participants, and present several observations made during the implementation of this monitoring system. The last section of this paper puts forward the lessons learnt from this initiative and the challenges that the PO faced in sustaining their efforts."
Strategic Engagement and Dynamic Adaption: Customary Forest Management in Kerinci, Central Sumatra, Indonesia
(2008) Hartanto, Herlina; Haripriya, Ragnan; Thorburn, Craig; Christian, Kull
"The ability of communities to use and manage forests and other natural resources in a sustainable manner has received much interest from various scholars, policymakers, donor agencies, and non-government organisations. With regards to the management of forests and natural resources by customary communities in Indonesia, there are two opposing views of the customary institutions, or adat, and management practices. Some perceive adat institutions and management practices as weak, inert, and incapable of responding to changing economic and social conditions. Others see adat institutions as politically dynamic and innovative in their response to changing circumstances. This paper examines the strategies and processes used by adat leaders in Kerinci, Central Sumatra, to adapt and transform their customary forest institutions in response to the national governments policies for increased forest conservation. These policies were instituted by the creation of the Kerinci-Seblat National Park, accompanied by regulations defining forest areas and controlling peoples access to natural resources within the park and the buffer zone. Drawing on key concepts in legal pluralism, institutional change, and theories of power, the paper illustrates the ways in which the adat leaders reshaped adat institutions and engaged with powerful external actors to claim authority and management rights over the forests. The conclusions point to need for policymakers, scholars, and practitioners to move beyond typecasting adat institutions and focus instead on the strategic ways in which adat leaders and communities engage with local governments and external actors to redefine both customary and formal institutions of forest control and management."