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Review of Literature by Sivakumar.K.S

Building and Strengthening People’s Institutions in Natural Resource Management by G.Raju, IRMA workshop report-16. Review of Literature by Sivakumar.K.S. Importance of People’s Participation in NRM.

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Review of Literature by Sivakumar.K.S

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  1. Building and Strengthening People’s Institutions in Natural Resource Management by G.Raju, IRMA workshop report-16 Review of Literature by Sivakumar.K.S

  2. Importance of People’s Participation in NRM • Natural resources in India fall under the regime of an open access resource. Institutions become necessary to manage them as it is the common property resource. • The landless poor and small farm households benefit from these resources by freely collecting or gathering its produce which help to improve their socio-economic well being

  3. When People seek to manage the environment? • The benefits of management are perceived to exceed its costs. • This is an important proposition since it introduces the issue of cost, which is a fundamental dimension of environmental management.

  4. People conserve the natural resources for two reasons • First, the management of natural resources improves the conditions of their livelihood. • Second, environmental degradation is perceived to be threatening, either to life sustaining processes (e.g. through pollution or soil erosion) or to peoples’ aesthetic values

  5. Natural Resource and Livelihood • Over 60 percent of the county’s workforce depends on agriculture, fisheries and forests for their livelihoods and the dependence of poor on natural resources is more as compared to the non-poor.

  6. Where Do We see the Community today? • Governments • Markets • Communities

  7. People’s Institutions as system • Members come together to form a PI in order to exploit an opportunity for gainful collective action or to pursue goals important to their members. The vehicle that they develop towards their goal is the operating system

  8. What are Local Institutions? The fact that people know each other creates opportunities for collective action and mutual assistance, for mobilizing and managing resources on a self-directed and self-sustaining basis. Three different localinstitutions • Localities • communities • groups

  9. Basic concepts of building People’s Institutions • Goal Formation • Operating structure, Rules and Roles • Benefit sharing • Sustainability

  10. While ensuring community participation it is important to understand community needs and their interest on natural resources

  11. Case Study Integrated Watershed Management in a Tribal Village of Orissa - Kondkitunda The organization: Agragamee

  12. Additional Readings • Natural Resource Management through Rural Cooperatives: Issues of People’s Participation and Monitoring by B. Sudhakara Reddy. International Symposium Sustaining Food Security and Managing Natural Resources in Southeast Asia • Linking Development With Democratic Processes In India: Political Capital And Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis by Pari Baumann and Subir Sinha • GATEKEEPER SERIES No. 31 Local Institutions and Participation for Sustainable Development • Agragamee Annual Report, 2001-02 • GATEKEEPER SERIES No. 92 Women’s Participation in Watershed Development in India

  13. Thank you…….

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