Key issues in CBRM

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Key issues in CBRM

• Why objectives Community based or top down?
• What is the communitys involvement
• Who is involved
• How / When - process design and methods

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What is participation?Or how are people involved?
Any ideas?
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What is participation?

• Consultation
• Information
• Meetings
• Awareness raising
• Preach or lecture
• Practical or learning by doing
• Look and learn
• Sharing
• Taking part
• Involve
• Story together

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What is participation?Levels of participation -
exercise

• Write on individual post it notes - What kinds of
  participation might communities carry out to
  manage their resources?

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How are communities involved?Levels of
participation

• Community decisions
• and actions

2. Consultation
1. Information sharing
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Levels of public participation Ladder of
participation
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Adapted from Arnstein 1971, Wilcox 1994, Inglis
1994, Pretty 1994, SPI 1997, Govan et al. 1998
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What is participation?Levels of participation -
exercise

• Go into groups

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What is participation?Levels of participation -
exercise

• In your groups discuss the individual post it
  notes and rank the kinds of participation
  according to the ladder previously discussed
• Report back from groups and discussion

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Key issues in CBRM

• Why objectives Community based or top down?
• What is the communitys involvement
• Who is involved
• How - process design and methods

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Who participates? Who should be involved
stakeholders

• People, groups, institutions that are involved or
  possibly affected by the intended project
• May include different people, women, youth,
  fishermen, families, clans, NGOs, religious
  organizations, local government, national
  ministries, commercial interests etc. etc.

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Stakeholder exercise Who should be involved

• Write down a list of possible people who should
  be involved in resource management (stakeholders)
  in a village you know well.
• Please go back in your groups and compile a joint
  list of the people who should be involved in
  resource management

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Who / Stakeholders
Put a or next to most important stakeholders
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Stakeholders
Just choose and stakeholders from your list
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Enforcement

• Who enforces?
• In top down or state management?
• In bottom up or community based management?

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For what reasons would fishermen change their
ways or obey community decisions?
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Key issues in CBRM

• Why objectives Community based or top down?
• What is the communitys involvement
• Who is involved
• How - process design and methods

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Community Based Management

• Groupmaker birth months
• Please read Why Community Based Management
  (Lambeth and Watt 2004)
• Discuss in the group what are the reasons for the
  8 rules in the philosophy for CBM workers box
  20 mins
• Plenary report back

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• Philosophy for CBM workers
• CBM workers must never take an action that
  reduces the communitys sense of ownership.
• CBM workers must become good facilitators.
• Suggestions for action must come from
  communities, not CBM workers.
• Community undertakings decided quickly may be
  abandoned equally quickly.
• The project does not give things to people.
• The project does not do things for people.
• The project assists people to do things for
  themselves.
• The CBM process will only proceed in a community
  if the community wants it.