Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa

This document is about rural development in Africa. It is a preliminary statement of lessons learned from more than 20 years of natural resource-based development in rural Africa. Twenty years ago, natural resource management programs took a predominantly technical approach and followed by economic...

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Autor principal: United States Agency for International Development
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: USAID in collaboration with CIFOR, Winrock International, WRI, IRG 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18709
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description This document is about rural development in Africa. It is a preliminary statement of lessons learned from more than 20 years of natural resource-based development in rural Africa. Twenty years ago, natural resource management programs took a predominantly technical approach and followed by economic approach to getting rural development moving and responding to perceived environmental crises. The limitations of these approaches revealed as projects failed to meet their objectives and be sustainable. More recently, it has become clear that the governance aspects of rural development are also key. Experience demonstrates that programs that integrate nature, wealth, and power (good governance) have promising results. This experience generated a set of principles-summarized in this booklet as action steps-that can serve as a guide to investment in rural Africa. The three case studies presented: Namibia, Madagascar, and Mali illustrate the effectiveness of the integration of all three dimensions and the various principles and actions recommended under each dimension.
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spelling CGSpace187092025-01-24T14:20:13Z Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa United States Agency for International Development natural resources governance rural development development programmes information systems knowledge management This document is about rural development in Africa. It is a preliminary statement of lessons learned from more than 20 years of natural resource-based development in rural Africa. Twenty years ago, natural resource management programs took a predominantly technical approach and followed by economic approach to getting rural development moving and responding to perceived environmental crises. The limitations of these approaches revealed as projects failed to meet their objectives and be sustainable. More recently, it has become clear that the governance aspects of rural development are also key. Experience demonstrates that programs that integrate nature, wealth, and power (good governance) have promising results. This experience generated a set of principles-summarized in this booklet as action steps-that can serve as a guide to investment in rural Africa. The three case studies presented: Namibia, Madagascar, and Mali illustrate the effectiveness of the integration of all three dimensions and the various principles and actions recommended under each dimension. 2002 2012-06-04T09:08:43Z 2012-06-04T09:08:43Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18709 en USAID in collaboration with CIFOR, Winrock International, WRI, IRG USAID - Africa Bureau (AFR/SD) 2002. Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa . Washington, DC, USAID in collaboration with CIFOR, Winrock International, WRI, IRG. 35p.
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Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa
title Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa
title_full Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa
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title_short Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa
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governance
rural development
development programmes
information systems
knowledge management
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