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Planning and Managing Dynamic Collaborative
Agreements

• PARALLEL SESSION
• International Conference on Advancing Community
  Forestry Innovations and Experience
• Chiangmai, 25-28 September 2001

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OBJECTIVES

• To provide opportunities to share, generate, and
  exchange information
• To identify issues in collaborative agreements
  processes
• To explore strategies and mechanisms to better
  address issues

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WHAT ARE COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENTS?

• A written and legal document that contains
  stakeholders information, mechanisms and
  structural arrangements, as well as clear
  processes and activities
• A by-product of dynamic negotiations among
  collaborating groups

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COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENTS ARE FOR

• Avoiding future conflict
• Clarifying roles, rights and responsibilities
• Promoting transparency and accountability
• Unifying diversity and provide common direction
• Guaranteeing equitable sharing of benefits and
  sustainable forest resource management

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STATE MANAGEMENT
COLLABORATIVE
CONFLICT
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
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STATE MANAGEMENT
competitive
coexistence
formal
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
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ECOLOGY COMPLEXITY UNCERTAINTY
SOCIAL COMPLEXITY UNCERTAINTY
DYNAMICCOLLABORATIVEMANAGEMENT
NEW ATTITUDES NEW SKILLS NEW KNOWLEDGE
CHANGEINSTITUTIONS ANDGOVERNANCE
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WHAT WORKS

• Shared vision and objectives
• Clarity on who communities and stakeholders are
• Clarifying roles and responsibilities
• Information and arrangements

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INFORMATION SHARING
NEGOTIATION PROCESSES
MANAGING AGREEMENTS
FORMAL AGREEMENTS
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WHAT DOESNT WORK

• Unbalanced power
• There is no mutual trust
• Unfavourable laws/policies that obstruct the
  process
• Ignoring rules and regulations
• Lack of information sharing
• There are no mutual benefits

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PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES
INSTITUTIONS, MANAGEMENT, AND PRACTICES
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ATTITUDES
DYNAMIC COLLABORATIVEAGREEMENTS
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UNRESOLVED ISSUES 1 PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES

• Do collaborative agreements require legal
  frameworks or will laws follow?
• How to legalize a collaborative agreements and at
  what level?
• How to ensure collaborative agreement meet
  minimum standards?

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UNRESOLVED ISSUES 2 INSTITUTIONS AND MANAGEMENT

• How to build trust among stakeholders?
• How to make each stakeholder accountable?
• Who to manage conflicts?
• How to deal with bureaucracy?

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UNRESOLVED ISSUES 3 KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS,AND
ATTITUDE

• How to deal with attitudes and behaviour contrary
  to the spirit of collaborative agreement?
• How to include all relevant stakeholders and
  share benefits equitably?
• How to manage the elite domination over the group
  (e.g. at the village level)
• How to be a facilitator?

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GROUP TASK

• CHOOSE ONE (1) UNRESOLVED ISSUE THAT YOUR GROUP
  FEELS IS URGENT AND IMPORTANT TO IMPROVE
  COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT PROCESSES IN COMMUNITY
  FORESTRY
• EXPLORE POSSIBLE STRATEGIES OR MECHANISMS TO
  ADDRESS THE ISSUE
• FORMULATE A STATEMENT THAT INTRODUCES THE ISSUE
  AND SUGGESTS A STRATEGY OR MECHANISM TO ADDRESS IT