Search Results - "Bureaucrat"

District governments and poverty alleviation in forest areas in Indonesia by Andrianto, A., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Cahyat, A., Goenner, C., Moeliono, M., Limberg, G., Iwan, R.

“…We found that centrally-imposed programs have created bureaucratic requirements that officials are reluctant to meet or prefer to use to their own benefit. …”
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Pemerintah Kabupaten dan penanggulangan kemiskinan di wilayah hutan di Indonesia by Andrianto, A., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Cahyat, A., Goenner, C., Moeliono, M., Limberg, G., Iwan, R.

“…We found that centrally-imposed programs have created bureaucratic requirements that officials are reluctant to meet or prefer to use to their own benefit. …”
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Circles and spirals by Prabhu, R., Larson, A.M., Colfer, C.J.P.

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Kyrgyzstan land rights: Quick guide to resolving disputes and securing ownership by Bainazarov, Iskander

“…Whether they describe procedures for initiating legal proceedings, navigating bureaucratic processes, or understanding the steps involved in formalizing ownership, the briefs offer a practical roadmap for those actively engaged in securing their land rights.…”
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Institutional and development issues in integrated water resource management of Saigon River by Sajor, E., Thu, M.

“…It investigates three institutional problem areas constituting major constraints to integrated water resources management (IWRM): (a) bureaucratic fragmentation and separatism, (b) top-downism negating multistakeholder participation, and (c) highly centralized administration. …”
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The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos by Suhardimana, Diana, Keovilignavong, Oulavanh, Kenney-Lazar, M.

“…Instead, it presents land use planning as a function of power and a contested arena of power struggle, driven primarily by the development targets of sectoral ministries and the interests of powerful local actors. We show how bureaucratic competition and sectoral fragmentation prevail directly within Laos’s National Land Master Plan formulation process. …”
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“Nature Gives and Nature Takes” by Stopek, Olivia Margareta

“…We live in a time where adaptation measures often are based on risk calculations made by experts and bureaucrats where they try to measure future dangers of global climate change. …”
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Adaptive collaborative management: Experiential and theoretical forebearers by Colfer, C.J.P., Prabhu, R., Larson, A.M.

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Reducing childhood stunting in India: Insights from four subnational success cases by Avula, Rasmi, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Tran, Lan Mai, Kaur, Supreet, Bhatia, Neena, Sarwal, Rakesh, de Wagt, Arjan, Chaudhery, Deepika Nayar, Menon, Purnima

“…Primary contributors to stunting reduction were improvements in coverage of health and nutrition interventions (ranged between 11 to 23% among different states), household conditions (22–47%), and maternal factors (15–30%). Political and bureaucratic leadership engaged civil society and development partners facilitated change. …”
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Initiatives to establish local food systems in Sweden by Engström, Ida

“…Ideas, values and beliefs connected to quality of life, finding alternatives to the present economic and bureaucratic system, aiming for sustainability and sharing of knowledge are expressed by the actors. …”
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Learning from adaptive collaborative management: A participatory tool to support adaptive and reflective learning in multi-stakeholder forums by Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.

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Drivers of change in fragile environments: challenges to governance in Indian wetlands by Narayanan, N.C., Venot, Jean-Philippe

“…The intense politics of access, control and use of natural resources challenge the implementation of a true polycentric regime in the Indian context due to a tendency to bureaucratization and a lack of participation, and existing limits to democratic citizenship. …”
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Ett nyliberalt skifte i Tanzania? : en WPR-analys av ledarkrönikor i tanzanisk statsägd media by Olsson, Carl

Subnational variation in policy implementation: the case of Nigerian land governance reform by Resnick, Danielle, Okumo, Austen

“…We find that the collective presence of bureaucratic autonomy, diversity of donor funding, and continuity in state government administrations are more likely to explain where SLTR implementation has progressed the most.…”
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How to overcome the governance challenges of implementing NREGA: Insights from Bihar using process-influence mapping by Raabe, Katharina, Birner, Regina, Sekher, Madhushree, Gayathridevi, K. G., Shilpi, Amrita, Schiffer, Eva

“…The ability to identify how the governance challenges of program implementation can be met requires detailed insights into the actual process of program implementation, with clear views on the source of leakage and mismanagement, the sensitivity of program implementation to the influence of different actors, local power structures and informal bureaucratic processes. This paper uses a new participatory research method, referred to as Process-Influence Mapping, to shed light on these issues and related governance challenges, using the implementation of NREGA as an example. …”
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Anthropogenic fires in Indonesia: a view from Sumatra by Bowen, M.R., Bompard, J.M., Anderson, I.P., Guizol, P., Gouyon, A.

“…A continuation of the top-down, bureaucratic approach to fire management that focuses on fire suppression will fail in the field during the next el Nino drought as it did in 19997.…”
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Capacity building for ACM: Lessons learned from training in distinct contexts by Cronkleton, P., Evans, K., Larson, A.M.

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How nutrition-friendly are agriculture and health policies in Bangladesh? by Naher, Firdousi, Barkat-e-Khuda, Ahmed, Shaikh Shamsuddin, Hossain, Mahabub

“…Several interviews with former civil servants and bureaucrats were conducted.The approach to achieving food security has been a partial one, with policy provisions focusing excessively on increasing the availability of food, primarily rice. …”
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Ecological criteria and indicators for tropical forest landscapes: challenges in the search for progress by Sheil, Douglas, Nasi, Robert, Johnson, B.

“…Data can inform this judgment, but an over-reliance on data collection and top-down bureaucratic interventions can add to problems rather than solving them. …”
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Local corruption and support for fuel subsidy reform: Evidence from Indonesia by Kyle, Jordan

“…Shifting from universalaccess social programs, such as fuel subsidies, to targeted programs requires vesting authority with local politicians and bureaucrats, whom the state relies on to identify poor households and to deliver benefits. …”
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