Occasional Papers: Community Partnerships for Sustainable Resource Management (COMPASS II)
Includes 13 Occasional Papers from the COMPASS II program.
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ADDRESSING THE BUSINESS SERVICES NEEDS FOR RURAL NATURAL RESOURCES BASED ENTERPRISES IN MALAWI
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This document is the 10th in the Occasional Paper series. It reports on a preliminary assessment of how business service provision in Malawi might be decentralized closer to the rural clients operating natural resource-based enterprises. The results verified that the greatest impediment facing enterprises in rural districts is access to information, followed by access to markets. Recommendations for reducing this knowledge gap include packaging high-quality information in a form easily and consistently deliverable around the country. The authors are all rural enterprise specialists experienced in southern Africa. |
COMMUNITIES BUILDING UPON WHAT THEY DO BEST AN APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY APPROACH TO COMMUNITY-BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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The manual provides an alternative to “problem-focused” or “deficit-focused” community interventions. It provides a process and tools to engage community members and stakeholders in discovering the best of what exists – human qualities, natural resources, and opportunities – in order to build a future based on what “works.” |
COMMUNITY RESOURCES MAPPING LAND USE MAPPING – FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
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This document is the 2nd in the Occasional Paper series. It reports on community resource mapping as a powerful tool for communities to use in identifying their resources and to guide their decisions about CBNRM investments that add value to the resources they have at their disposal. Community-generated maps provide an empowering way to obtain genuine participation by all community members, regardless of literacy levels or scientific understanding. The authors—Robert Bouvier and Wellington Kafakalawa—have compiled this Paper based on their field experiences in rural Malawi and various other countries in Africa and Asia. This introductory guide will be followed by other Occasional Papers on the topic. |
DECENTRALISATION AND CBNRM: Framework for a review of progress, challenges and opportunities
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This document is the 3rd in the Occasional Paper series. It reports an updated review of progress in the decentralisation of natural resources management in Malawi under the policies and legislation developed over the past several years. It cites what is working as well as where improvements are still needed, and was commissioned to guide COMPASS II field efforts toward lowering the impediments to increased decentralisation, a core objective as noted above. The author—Dr. Tony Seymour—has compiled this Paper based on his extensive field experience in the fisheries and other natural resource sectors in Malawi. |
DECENTRALISATION AND FISHERIES A REVIEW OF PROGRESS, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CBNRM IN THE FISHERIES SECTOR
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This document is the 4th in the Occasional Paper series. It reports an updated review of progress on the decentralisation of fisheries management in Malawi under the participatory fisheries management process as developed over the past several years. It cites what is working as well as where improvements are still needed, and was commissioned to guide COMPASS II field efforts toward lowering the impediments to increased decentralisation in this crucial natural resource sector, a core objective as noted above. The author—Dr. Tony Seymour—has compiled this Paper based on his extensive field experience in the fisheries sector in Malawi, and long-standing involvement with participatory fisheries management. |
DECENTRALISATION AND FORESTRY A REVIEW OF PROGRESS, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CBNRM IN THE FORESTRY SECTOR
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This document is the 8th in the Occasional Paper series. It reports an updated review of progress on the decentralisation of forest management in Malawi under the participatory forest management process as developed over the past several years. It cites what is working as well as where improvements are still needed, and was commissioned to guide COMPASS II field efforts toward lowering the impediments to increased decentralisation in this crucial natural resource sector, a core objective as noted above. The authors—Alastair Anton and Nicholas Chimzukila—have compiled this Paper based on their extensive field experience in the forestry sector in Malawi, and involvement with participatory forest management. |
ENHANCING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
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ENHANCING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES: PROMOTING BUSINESS LINKAGES, PARTNERSHIPS, AND MULTIPLIER EFFECTS FOR COMMUNITIES IN THE HONEY,MUSHROOM & AQUACULTURE SECTORS IN MALAWI - |
Occasional Paper: COMPASS Development Pathways
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One way that the COMPASS II implementation team is working toward achieving these objectives is to build awareness among a wide range of CBNRM stakeholders about the opportunities that improved management of natural resources by communities could provide toward economic growth in Malawi. The CBNRM Occasional Paper series makes better information more widely available, highlighting some of the evolution in thinking among CBNRM practitioners in Malawi and throughout southern Africa. The series is intended to provide up-to-date information about various aspects of CBNRM, and promote wider discussions about the different approaches to field practice. It is hoped that by providing current information to audiences that may not otherwise have access to technical reports, and by stimulating discussions, practitioners in the region and beyond may be able to contribute to further improvements. This document is the 1st in the Occasional Paper series. It reports on the concept of development pathways as an organizing tool to guide CBNRM investments toward those areas that present the greatest opportunities for natural resource-based enterprises relying on either consumptive or non-consumptive use of resources by present and future generations of Malawians. The author—Dr. Andrew Watson—includes illustrative examples of applying the concept as a way to identify the most viable enterprise options for a given area to demonstrate the financial and economic incentives to maintain biodiversity. |
THE PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE RESOURCE BASE OF JATEORHIZA SPECIES (CALUMBA ROOT) IN MALAWI
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The main purpose of this assignment was to undertake a preliminary assessment of the resource base of Jateorhiza species (Calumba Root) in Malawi and make recommendations based on a better understanding of its ecological and agronomical characteristics, within a framework of traditional-use plant products (TUPP) research. Specifically, this is a follow up to the COMPASS II Internal report on TUPPs by Don Greenberg and Bronwyn Irwin, 2005. |
VALUING THE RESOURCES OF MULANJE MOUNTAIN: RESULTS
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This study looks at the values of Mount Mulanje from an economic perspective. We are interested in understanding who receives economic benefits from the mountain now, through their direct consumption of the products of its forests or use of the abundant water flowing in its streams and rivers. While these things are not sold for hard cash, and so are not included in national economic statistics, they nevertheless have considerable economic value to those who use them, and can be understood as “income in kind.” If nature did not provide those resources, residents of local communities would have to find the funds to buy them, and would be that much poorer as a result. |
VALUING THE RESOURCES OF MULANJE MOUNTAIN STUDY DESIGN
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This document is the 9th in the Occasional Paper series. It provides an overview of the first phase of an extensive study being undertaken to determine the economic value of one of Malawi’s critical ecosystems: Mulanje Mountain. The study, once completed, will provide valuable information to resource managers and others about the likely economic impacts of different management scenarios. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt in Malawi to conduct such an economic valuation exercise on an entire ecosystem. The author—Dr. Joy Hecht—has extensive experience in the field of economic valuation of natural resources, including non-traditional resources such as the existence value of biodiversity. |
