Tag: community participatory

Introduction - Community Participatory in Watershed Management In most southeast Asian countries, watershed protection has been the overt objective of a great deal of government policy dealing with management of upland areas (Swallow, Garrity & van Noordwijk, 2001). In many cases, watershed projects ask the poor people who use upper watersheds to provide an environmental service for their wealthier neighbors in lower watersheds (Kerr, 2002). When this is not accompanied by appropriate compensation to the people in upland areas, watershed projects face difficulties during implementation. Difficulties in the implementation of watershed management also relate to the complex characteristics of the watersheds: multiple communities may use upper and lower reaches for multiple purposes; watershed resources provide different services to different users; and users are affected differently by resource use decisions (Kerr, 2002; Johnson et al., 2001). To make watershed development more successful and sustainable, participation of the stakeholders, for example local people, is therefore an important issue. Development should therefore also involve, not only...