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| Title: | Room for Manoeuvre: Local Organisations and Resource Tenure Administration in Highland Kafa, Southwest Ethiopia |
| Author: | Zewdie, Yihenew |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Periodical: | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 31-58 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs., maps |
| Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Northeast Africa |
| Subjects: | forest management land law community participation conflict resolution Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Law, Human Rights and Violence Politics and Government rural development Grass roots groups forest policy land reform Resources management Forest conservation |
| External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eastern_africa_social_science_research_review/v020/20.2zewdie.pdf |
| Abstract: | Tenure administration, which in this paper is understood as the settlement of intra-community resource use disputes as well as the enforcement of statutory land laws, is an essential feature of any sustainable resource management regime. The paper examines the role of local organizations in tenure administration, giving particular emphasis to past and present - Peasant Associations under the 'Derg', 'Kebele' authorities and the informal 'Idir' system in the post-'Derg' period - processes of forest law enforcement and settlement of forest use-related disputes in highland Kafa, Ethiopia. The involvement of local rural organizations in tenure administration is mainly a consequence of the 1975 Land Reform Proclamation. Recently community-initiated local organizations have become increasingly involved in dispute settlement along with State-sponsored ones. This has in turn created the conditions for a synergetic relationship between these organizations in tenure administration. Ineffectual forest legislation and limited government capacity to implement the tenurial provisions have, inadvertently, allowed local organizations to adopt tenure rules to suit local interests, which at times tended to favour the powerful and disregarded forest conservation imperatives. The paper argues that tenure administration should aim at sustainability and equitability, and these necessitate enactment of livelihood-oriented forest tenure reform that builds upon and reinvigorates local institutional capital. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |
