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Title: | More Effective Natural Resource Management through Democratically Elected, Decentralised Government Structures in Uganda |
Authors: | Raussen, Thomas Ebong, Geoffrey Musiime, Jimmy |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Development in Practice |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | August |
Pages: | 460-470 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | popular participation erosion agroforestry Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09614520120066747 |
Abstract: | This paper describes hands-on experience with community-led management of a watershed in Kabale district, Uganda, and identifies important components of a successful project mode. In 1997-1998, farmers of Kyantobi village at the lower end of the Katagata river catchment experienced the typical problems of erosion from the fields on the steep slopes and flooding and sedimentation on their best valley-bottom soils. For help to deal with this problem, representatives from the village contacted the Agroforestry Research and Development Project jointly implemented bij the Forestry Resources Research Institute and the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF). When agroforestry dissemination staff visited the watershed, it become obvious to farmers and project staff alike that any effective measures to help control the problems of runoff would require community action throughout the watershed. Project staff made it clear that the project could help with training and materials for soil conservation but that local leaders would have to organize the key element for success - community action. Local authorities can make suitable arrangements and village and sub-country councils can set and implement by-laws. The villagers readily accepted this condition. Experiences from the project suggest that a demand-driven community-based approach as well as a democratic decentralization of government functions appear to be the key factors enabling succesful watershed management. Bibliogr., sum. |