| Summary: | Working with communities or groups within communities and helping them to reach their goals is a challenge. This paper provides guidelines in catalyzing collective action, especially in natural resources management, based on: the global literature on community-based management of forests and other natural resources; experience in catalyzing collective action within communities in more than 30 communities in 11 countries, using the approach called Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM); and through experience trying to catalyze collective action in two communities in Sumatra, Indonesia.
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