“In the past, it was like voices in the dark. People could be speaking, and they don’t really correlate to one another. But in the co-management of today, it’s like we organized and we speak the same language. There’s that kind of harmony … as opposed to the past where people just live on and don’t care about their next-door neighbor.”
Collaborative dialogue to support local institutions in natural resource co-management
POLICY BRIEF | (Published in)
Conflicting stakeholder interests and disparities in power and capacity make co-management difficult to implement. This brief shows how dialogue processes can support local institutions to participate more effectively.