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Tag: community involvement
Guide méthodologique pour l’accompagnement d’une gestion communautaire durable de la chasse : Leçons apprises dans les sites d’intervention du SWM Programme
Face à la crise de la biodiversité, à la pression sur les ressources naturelles et à la difficulté pour les pouvoirs publics d’accomplir leurs missions sur de larges espaces, dans des zones parfois reculées et difficiles d’accès, la gestion communautaire durable de la chasse offre une réponse innovante conciliant conservation, sécurité alimentaire, droits des communautés rurales et paix sociale. Ce guide méthodologique, issu des expériences du Programme de gestion durable de la faune sauvage, propose une démarche opérationnelle et contextualisée à destination des structures souhaitant accompagner des communautés rurales dans l’élaboration et la mise en œuvre d’une gestion durable de la chasse.
Shifting Knowledge and Attitudes on Gender related to Forest and Landscape Restoration – A couple’s perspective. Insights from married couples in Makueni County, Kenya
This brief presents the results of a small study that sought to reveal some of the change dynamics resulting from the participation of couples from the Mbooni Community Forest Association (CFA) in a two-day training, Breaking Ground: Community Dialogues on Gender and Restoration.
This training was delivered under the UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (UK PACT) funded project, “Delivering nature-based solution outcomes by addressing policy, institutional and monitoring gaps in forest and landscape restoration”, led by CIFOR-ICRAF in partnership with African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), FAO-Kenya, and the County Government of Makueni, Kenya. The project is a unique capacity-building programme jointly governed and funded by the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) through the UK’s International Climate Finance. It works in partnership with countries with high emissions reduction potential to support them in implementing and increasing their ambitions for tackling climate change.
Nested Institutions and Overlapping Mandates: A Policy Analysis of Mangrove Governance in Ghana, Tanzania Mainland, and Zanzibar
Mangroves are critical resources in sustaining coastal communities by providing essential ecosystem goods and services. Occurring within the interface of land and sea, they serve as critical ecological zones shaped by dynamic interactions between terrestrial and marine systems. Using qualitative policy analysis of legal instruments, policy documents, and peer-reviewed literature, the study investigates how nested governance arrangements influence mangrove management. The findings show that mangrove governance across the three contexts takes hybrid forms shaped by historical trajectories and legal pluralism. Although participatory mechanisms such as CREMAs in Ghana, Joint Forest Management in Tanzania Mainland, and Community Forest Management Agreements in Zanzibar formally recognise community involvement, authority remains unevenly distributed due to fragmented institutional mandates and unclear tenure arrangements. As a result, mangrove governance is constrained by overlapping institutional responsibilities and weak enforcement. These findings suggest that reforms should prioritise integrated land–seascape approaches, stronger coordination across sectors, and greater statutory support for local institutions to sustain mangrove ecosystems.
Co-creation guide for agribusiness and practitioners. A structured process to build shared value and business resilience in complex landscapes
This guide provides practical guidance for agribusiness managers, practitioners, and facilitators implementing co-creation processes in land-based investment contexts. Drawing on experiences from the Transformative Land Investment (TLI) programme and more than 20 Business Transformation Labs (BTLs) conducted across multiple countries and agricultural value chains, the guide presents a structured approach to stakeholder engagement, collaborative problem-solving, and action planning. It focuses on helping companies, communities, and authorities jointly identify challenges, develop shared solutions, and strengthen both business performance and local development outcomes. The guide situates co-creation within a broader cycle of listening, learning, action, and continuous engagement to improve investment sustainability, resilience, and inclusiveness.
A landscape puzzle: building collaborative governance in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia
The Danau Sentarum Catchment Areas in Kapuas Hulu, Kalimantan, Indonesia, are an archetypal complex social-ecological system with high biodiversity, development pressures, and contrasting human demands. Multiple stakeholders operate according to their own interests, needs, and rules, while being forced into a legal framework that itself is composed of many layers with different configurations. This study investigated how an integrated landscape approach through multistakeholder engagement could enhance landscape governance and identify the requisite processes and stakeholder interactions for change. We explored spaces in the landscape decision-making process and observed stakeholder attempts to negotiate and configure the various components of the landscape puzzle within a coherent management plan. We were particularly interested in understanding the connections and disconnections among stakeholders and the extent to which multistakeholder processes can help to bridge gaps and lead to enhanced collaboration and more effective governance. Although it is too early to say whether the multistakeholder engagement and planning has enhanced governance capacity, participants acknowledged an improved understanding of the role of previously competing or disconnected sectors and actors within the landscape and a sense of enhanced trust.
Territory, climate and social justice: Strengthening the capacities of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in Pará through participatory methodologies
Key messages
- The effective participation of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LCs) in climate governance and in REDD+ projects and jurisdictional (JREDD+) initiatives depends on them having prior access to clear, accessible and contextualized information. Learning processes influence not only who participates but also how they participate and under what conditions, making the production, translation and dissemination of knowledge central elements of climate justice.
- Participatory methodologies – like practical experiments, theatre, artistic activities and public consultation simulations – are effective tools for transforming complex issues related to climate change and carbon markets into meaningful learning processes.
- Through well-designed participatory learning methods, IP&LCs not only understand climate change and mitigation mechanisms like REDD+ and JREDD+, they can also more effectively engage in critically analysing potential benefits, risks and implications for their livelihoods and territories.
- Training community facilitators to replicate these methods strengthens local organizations and creates the conditions for community leaders to expand capacity- building and knowledge-sharing processes.
- More than simply conveying information, learning through participatory methods reinforces the value of local knowledge, community organization, collective action and the self-determination of IP&LCs in the face of decisions that affect their territories, contributing to more inclusive and just climate governance.
Strengthening the role of local people in REDD+ in a post-FCPF world: The story of Indonesia and East Kalimantan
Key messages
- The level of knowledge on climate change and carbon trade is highly uneven with greater understanding among provincial government officials directly involved in the FCPF program and lowest among village community members who face the highest risk.
- The East Kalimantan JREDD+ was the first of its kind in Indonesia, but complicated procedures and additional conditions imposed during implementation, coupled with demands from the private sector for a share in the carbon trade, are driving a turn to nested projects.
- JREDD+ that focuses on nesting through accounting loses the purported advantages of jurisdictional approaches and puts substantial project risk back on communities.
Evidence of Capacity and Organisational Change in Community Forest Associations in Taita Taveta and Makueni Counties
This study assesses the capacity and organizational changes resulting from community engagement activities under a forest and landscape restoration project. It focuses on the impact of training and participatory processes involving Community Forest Associations (CFAs) and related stakeholders. Interventions included gender and social inclusion training, policy engagement, technical agroforestry and restoration training, institutional strengthening of CFAs, and digital tools such as the Regreening App. Using a recall-based Likert scale approach, the study compares conditions before and after engagement to identify shifts in knowledge, practices, and organizational effectiveness. Results highlight improvements in community capacity, participation, and institutional performance, contributing to enhanced implementation of nature-based solutions and sustainable landscape restoration.
Jurisdictional REDD+ in theory and practice: Opportunities and risks for Indigenous Peoples and local communities in three initiatives
Key messages
- A jurisdictional approach should be reflected not only in the specific interventions associated with the REDD+ programme but also in the broader set of policies implemented across the jurisdiction – governments are often treating jurisdictional programmes as if they are just projects.
- Despite positive developments regarding engagement with Indigenous Peoples, local communities or their organizations in all three initiatives, none presents the spectrum of advantages and expected commitments of a jurisdictional approach.
- The Grupo Peru indigenous JREDD+ initiative is exceptional in many ways, yet it still needs the Peruvian government to address the drivers of deforestation and degradation and other risks to Indigenous lands.
- As the impetus for jurisdictional approaches continues to grow, governance needs to be re-centred in the approach to JREDD+ to combat deforestation and forest degradation and to secure the rights, well-being and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Revised September 2026