Zimbabwe:
Micro-catchment Management and Common Property Resources
Zimbabwe
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 Purpose
To develop and promote appropriate catchment management strategies
in semi-arid areas. Institutional arrangements for sustainable
management of common property resources will be developed,
tested and promoted. Building on these, sustainable water
supplies from the catchment will be used to increase productivity
of the commodity base.
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Lessons: |
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Micro-catchment
management and common property resources in Zimbabwe
Mandondo, A./ Campbell, B / Mutamba, M / Institute of Environmental
Studies, University of Zimbabwe/ 2002 HTML |
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The
Question of Scale in Integrated Natural Resource Management
Chris
Lovell / Alois Mandondo / Patrick Moriarty / Ecology 5(2): 25
/ 2002 HTML |
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Livelihoods
Synthesis Study: Key Determinants of Poor People’s Livelihood
Strategies and Natural Resources-related Management Opportunities
Bianca Ambrose-Oji / Natural Resources Systems Programme, DFID
2004 HTML |
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Assessing
the Performance of Natural Resource Systems
Campbell, B ./ J. A. Sayer / P. Frost / S. Vermeulen / M. Ruiz
Pérez / A. Cunningham / R. Prabhu / Conservation Ecology
5(2): 22/ 2001 HTML |
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Situating
Zimbabwes Natural Resource Governance Systems in History Alois
Mandondo / Centre for International Forestry Research / 2000
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The
use of Informal institutions and social networks to access and
manage water resources in a semi arid area in Zimbabwe DOC
Nontokozo Nemarundwe, and Witness Kozanay / University of Zimbabwe
/ 2002 PDF |
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Institutional
Arrangements for Water Resource Use: a Case Study from Southern
Zimbabwe
Nontokozo Nemarundwe and Witness Kozanayi, Journal of Southern
African Studies Volume 29, Number 1 / March 2003 PDF |
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Use
of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches
Use
of SL 'building blocks' from the literature review thus feeding
into the design of the project.
One of four main activities is a study of livelihoods
- identifying social groupings and activities, links between
water resources and livelihoods in the context of farming
and production systems (livelihood assets), testing
out different options for water use and its impact on livelihoods.
This is being done through participatory appraisals and household
questionnaires (quarterly recall of the full spectrum of household
activities). Apart from the usual descriptive and statistical
analyses, the information will also be used to build a household
decision-making model, in which we attempt to investigate
the factors causing households to change their livelihood
portfolio of activities (livelihood strategies), and
to predict likely livelihood changes that will occur as a
result of changes in context (policies, institutions, processes).
A cross-cutting theme within the project is the development
of a conceptual model for the project, and taking this forward
to the development of a Decision Support System (this is developed
using BBN software). This has a strong SL component as the
key outcome variables in the conceptual model and DSS are
the five capital assets in the Carney schema of livelihoods.
The project includes a participative monitoring component
- through a parallel initiative to look at criteria to assess
the impact of NRM research, we have settled on using a "capitals"
perspective to capture a full spectrum of criteria to assess
change. At the field level, we will be testing our ideas against
those emerging through discussions with the community.
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version of the Project Summary: DOC
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