Author: Gervais Muberankiko
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296515126
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 164
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Le développement durable est l'une des préoccupations majeures des dirigeants africains. Mais les plans de développement n'ont pas porté les fruits escomptés. Pour remédier à ce déficit, la décentralisation est la solution la plus adéquate, étant donné qu'elle exige la responsabilisation des autorités locales et la participation des populations. Elle est une des solutions à la crise de gouvernabilité des États africains en général et béninois en particulier et une condition nécessaire à l'enracinement de la démocratie et du développement.
Author: Laura A. German
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 184977451X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management. This book summarizes experiences to date on the extent and nature of decentralization and its outcomes, most of which suggest an underperformance of governance reforms, and explores the viability of different governance instruments in the context of weak governance and expanding commercial pressures over forests. Findings are grouped into two thematic areas: decentralization, livelihoods and sustainable forest management; and international trade, finance and forest sector governance reforms. The authors examine diverse forces shaping the forest sector, including the theory and practice of decentralization, usurpation of authority, corruption and illegality, inequitable patterns of benefits capture and expansion of international trade in timber and carbon credits, and discuss related outcomes on livelihoods, forest condition and equity. The book builds on earlier volumes exploring different dimensions of decentralization and perspectives from other world regions, and distills dimensions of forest governance that are both unique to Africa and representative of broader global patterns. Authors ground their analysis in relevant theory while attempting to distill implications of their findings for policy and practice.
Author: Sylvia I. Bergh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786721163
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Since the mid-1990s, Morocco has sought to present itself as a model of genuine and gradual reform, with decentralisation as a key tenet of this. Here, Sylvia Bergh investigates the dynamics of popular participation and local governance, testing the extent to which the current structure builds local capacity, or whether it is, in fact, a tool for 'soft' state control. She narrates the realities of local administration and civil society to shed critical light on questions of democratic transition in North Africa. Her assessment of decentralisation and participatory development projects in rural Morocco, and the legal and policy frameworks in which they operate, leads to the conclusion that they have generally not yet led to an expansion of a civil society able to build local capacity or enhance bottom-up empowerment. Grounded in an approach of the 'anthropology of policy', this book makes an important contribution to literature on the democratisation, development and governance in North Africa.
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Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 2811109943
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1684
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Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 1843692619
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Author: Geert Diemer
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825830267
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 196
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Author: Association euro-africaine pour l'anthropologie du changement social et du développement
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643105355
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Over the last decade West African villages, rural towns, and urban neighbourhoods have experienced changes resulting from democratisation and decentralisation processes. While much hope was invested in decentralisation policies in the 1990s, today there is a need to look at everyday decentralisation practices. In this volume, authors of different scholarly backgrounds focus on political, economic and cultural aspects of decentralisation. By exploring party politics, water provision, schooling, territorial division and cultural understanding the case-studies highlight core stakes and fundamental contradictions of present-day decentralisation in West Africa.
Author: Sandra Evers
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004147802
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004530061
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Oil-Age Africa offers new insights and critical reflections from qualitative research on the politics, industries and communities in African oil producers.
Author: Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317355660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to bring depth and breadth to the relevant issues and address timely and under-studied themes. Focusing particularly on tropical forests, the book presents both local case studies and global comparative studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the US and Europe. The studies range from personal histories of elderly American women’s attitudes toward conservation, to a combined qualitative / quantitative international comparative study on REDD+, to a longitudinal examination of oil palm and gender roles over time in Kalimantan. Issues are examined across scales, from the household to the nation state and the global arena; and reach back to the past to inform present and future considerations. The collection will be of relevance to academics, researchers, policy makers and advocates with different levels of familiarity with gender issues in the field of forestry.
