Presence and effectiveness of material benefit provisions under Joint Forest Management in India: the cases of World Bank-aided Village Forest Committees in Madhya Pradesh
Presence and effectiveness of material benefit provisions under Joint Forest Management in India: the cases of World Bank-aided Village Forest Committees in Madhya Pradesh
复制标题
印度联合森林管理下物质利益规定的存在和有效性：世界银行援助的中央邦乡村森林委员会的案例
DOI：
10.1080/14728028.2014.886532
复制
发表时间：
2014
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Masuda M．
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Ota M;Antil Sh;Bhattacharya P;Masuda M．
外部机构提供物质利益在发展中国家的森林管理中已被广泛采用，尽管其在改善当地生计和保护方面的有效性一直存在争议。我们提供了印度中央邦森林区联合森林管理下物质利益条款的存在和有效性的经验证据。我们对世界银行援助的 18 个乡村森林委员会进行了广泛的调查，并对两个委员会（一个部落委员会和一个非部落委员会）进行了案例研究。林业部门提供的物质利益是最主要的经济活动类型。物资的分配是自上而下的，缺乏沟通和便利，因此在改善当地生计和保护方面不够有效，特别是在部落社区。我们得出的政策建议如下：应向受益人适当解释物质利益的提供，使其成为有效的保护激励措施；应由村庄发展专家提供维护所分配物质的技术援助；应逐步推广集体森林活动，使受益人对森林资源和项目产生主人翁意识。实施这些改进时应特别关注弱势或边缘化人群。
Provision of material benefits by external agencies has been widely adopted in developing countries' forest management, although their effectiveness in improving local livelihoods and conservation has been controversial. We provide empirical evidence of the presence and effectiveness of material benefit provisions under Joint Forest Management in a forest division of Madhya Pradesh State, India. We conducted an extensive survey of 18 World Bank-aided Village Forest Committees and case studies of two committees, one tribal and one non-tribal. Material benefit provisions by the forest department were the most predominant type of economic activity. Provisions were dispensed in a top-down manner lacking communication and facilitation, and consequently were not sufficiently effective in improving local livelihoods and conservation, especially in tribal communities. The policy implications we derived are the following: the provision of material benefits should be properly explained to beneficiaries for them to be effective as conservation incentives, technical assistance for the maintenance of the dispensed materials should be provided by village development specialists, and collective forest-based activities should be gradually promoted so that beneficiaries gain a sense of ownership for forest resources and programs. These improvements should be implemented with particular attention to disadvantaged or marginalized populations.