International influence on forest governance in Tanzania: Analysing the role of aid experts in the REDD+ process

Susanne Koch

Forest Policy and Economics, 2017, vol. 83, issue C, 181-190

Abstract: Forest governance in many African countries is characterised by a blatant gap between policy and implementation. Contrary to studies that explain this discrepancy mainly with deficient budgets and capacity shortfalls, this paper highlights aid as a cause of implementation failure: Analysing the REDD+ process in Tanzania, it reveals how donor experts employ their material and discursive power to convey ‘conservation fads’ to the country's policy domain, and to shape the latter in terms of substance and organisation. At the same time, it shows how local actors from government, civil society and academia utilise their international ‘partners’ for pursuing their own interests.

Keywords: Expert advice; International influences; Tanzania; REDD+; Development aid; Conservation fads (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2016.09.018

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