Realization of participation and spatiality in participatory forest management - a policy-practice analysis from Zanzibar, Tanzania

Salla Eilola, Nora Fagerholm, Sanna M�ki, Miza Khamis and Niina K�yhk�

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2015, vol. 58, issue 7, 1242-1269

Abstract: The efforts in sustainable natural resource management have given rise to decentralization of forest governance in the developing world with hopes for better solutions and effective implementation. In this paper, we examine how spatially sensitive participation is realized from policy to practice in the process of establishing participatory forest management in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Our policy-practice analysis shows that the policies in Zanzibar strongly support decentralization and local level participation has in practice been realized. However, the policy does not emphasize participatory process design nor address the possibilities of using spatial information and technologies to ensure wider participation. Thus, the practices fall short in innovativeness of using site-sensitive information with available technologies. Reflecting the Zanzibari Community Forest Management Agreements (CoFMA) context with examples of participatory use of spatial information and technologies in other parts of the world, we discuss ways to improve the Zanzibari CoFMA process towards increased participation, communication, local sense of ownership and more sustainable land management decisions, and argue for the future implementation of CoFMA as a spatially sensitive participatory process.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2014.921142

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