Finding the Right Institutional and Legal Framework for Community-Based Natural Forest Management: The Tanzanian Case

Abstract

"A variety of institutional and legal frameworks exist in the modern developing world through which the involvement of local communities in forest management is expressed, prescribed and proscribed. Joint Management Agreements (JMA) are most common. Some countries, most notably India and Nepal, have gone so far as to promulgate supporting legislation, providing an administratively and jurally bound framework for collaboration between state and people."