Intensity and embeddedness: Two dimensions of equity approaches in multi-stakeholder forums
Multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) have been positioned as a transformative solution for more sustainable decision-making in forestry, land use, and climate change interventions. Yet, there is much criticism about the possibility of these forums to address the power inequalities that frame interactions between different stakeholders to forests and their resources. Based on a systematic search of cases in the scholarly literature, we present a new approach to examining how MSFs organised at the jurisdictional level to deal with unsustainable land and resource use in forests address equity issues. We engage with MSFs from two key characteristics: the degree to which an MSF includes local peoples as part of a forest-landscape solution (its intensity), and the degree to which the MSF and its outcomes are part of the societal and institutional fabric of a given area (its embeddedness). The reason for focusing on these aspects is simple yet important: we propose that an MSF’s long-term resilience and success, and potential to promote equitable change is impeded if local peoples are not regarded as key partners and change-makers (rather than ‘beneficiaries’), and if the forum and/or its outcomes are not meaningfully institutionalized. Intensity and embeddedness are useful analytical tools that go beyond typologies that identify characteristics found in successful MSFs. These tools are helpful in terms of explaining how different approaches across different contexts function as classifying MSFs as either top-down, bottom-up, or a combination of both is not particularly useful. We also provide practical lessons from cases under different combinations of intensity and embeddedness. Keywords: Partnerships, Governance, Landscape management, Research, Social protection ID: 3624079
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| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2022
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CC0977EN http://www.fao.org/3/cc0977en/cc0977en.pdf |
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