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district, Mt. Elgon Country Concil, IUCN and NORAD. Secondary data regarding
management plans, biodiversity status, local people interactions and environmental history
on Mt. Elgon was also collected from available sources.
In the second phase, key informant interviews will be conducted with elders in all districts
surrounding Mt. Elgon. Data from aerial photographs and satellite imagery will be
assessed to estimate forest cover change last decades. Further household data will be
collected if needed.
We will employ three analytical models to meet our objectives. A. The “modified
stakeholder analyses” approach, exploring stakeholders interests, retums, rights/duties,
responsibilities and relationships (4R’s) (Vira, Dubois et al. 1998; Leach and Fairhead
2001; Woodcock 2002; Vedeld 2004). B. When the prospects of TB management are
identified, the implementing agencies play a crucial role (Pedynowski 2003). To analyze
the different agencies, a modifíed version of the “structure process model” will be used
(Vedeld 2002). C. The forests on Mt. Elgon are an example of common pool resources.
Since the mid-1980s, extensive studies have challenged earlier assumptions (Hardin 1968)
that the users of commons were trapped in inexorable tragedy and unable to engage in
suffícient collective action to extract themselves from drastic overuse and destmction
(Gibson, Williams et al. 2005). Ostrom (1990) has suggested eight design principles
necessary to make common pool resources robust and long enduring. “Ostroms principles”
are frequently used to analyze common properly natural resource management, community
institutions and to assist in the formulation of common pool resources regimes, focusing on
successful long enduring resource management (Morrow and Hull 1996).
PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
The first fmdings of the study provide interesting results. The livelihoods of the people
surrounding Mt Elgon are found highly dependent of the use of natural resources and
environmental goods. Sound management of those resources is therefore essential for long
term sustainable development in the area. Their rights and responsibilities are, however,
different between different management regimes. As a result, their relationships and
retums are different. That has influence on how the local communities regard the
legitimacy of the managerial authority to enforce the respective management systems.
There are currently discrepancies between the two countries that could be adjusted to
generate a joint transboundary management system.
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This study has been generously supported by NORAGRIC, The Icelandic Forestry
Association, The Icelandic Development Agency (ICEIDA), The Icelandic Fund for
Agricultural Production and the Nordic Africa Institute.
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