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Decentralization of Forest Management, Local Institutional Capacity and its Effect on Access of Local People to Forest Resources: The Case of West Sumatra, Indonesia

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dc.contributor.author Mahdi
dc.contributor.author Shivakoti, Ganesh P.
dc.contributor.author Inoue, Makoto
dc.date.accessioned 2011-04-06T19:32:03Z
dc.date.available 2011-04-06T19:32:03Z
dc.date.issued 2011 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7182
dc.description.abstract "This paper studies the capacity of local institutions to receive forest management right in West Sumatra, Indonesia, where local institutions have existed before the enactment of decentralization. We carried out focus group discussions to asess their capacity and a survey to learn its effect to households’ access to forest. From these field works, we found that most local institutions are not ready to fully absorb forest management rights transfer. They lack capabilities to formulate regulation and negotiation processes against disputed issues which lead to conflict. The conflicts rose among people, among local institutions, and between local institution and local government after decentralization took place. Consequently, households are facing uncertainty in access to forest resources. Therefore, the powerful households get higher benefit than the poors indicating continuation of elite capture even after nearly one decade of implementation of decentralization policy." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject decentralization en_US
dc.subject forest management en_US
dc.subject capacity building en_US
dc.subject livelihoods en_US
dc.title Decentralization of Forest Management, Local Institutional Capacity and its Effect on Access of Local People to Forest Resources: The Case of West Sumatra, Indonesia en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region Middle East & South Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country Indonesia en_US
dc.subject.sector Forestry en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates January 10-14 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Hyderabad, India en_US


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