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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Participatory integrated watershed management: Evolution of concepts and methods in an ecoregional program of the eastern African highlands
Agricultural Systems, Volume 94, No. 2, Year 2007
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This paper focuses on the conceptual evolution of watershed management within the context of an action research program operating in the highlands of eastern Africa, as informed by both theory and practice. Following a review of the watershed management literature, and brief program and methodological overviews, the paper explores in detail the concepts of "participation" and "integration" in watershed management. Conceptual and methodological dimensions of the terms are discussed in the context of a watershed implementation process, clarifying how "watershed issues" are defined by local users, how "stakeholders" are defined with respect to those issues, and how participation and integration may be operationalized in practice. Data are selectively chosen from different pilot sites to illustrate how concepts underlying watershed management have been refined, and methods improved. It is clear that "participation" in problem diagnosis and program implementation must move beyond community-level fora to socially-disaggregated processes and explicit management of trade-offs to diverse groups. Secondly, integration does not come about through implementation of parallel interventions, but rather through an explicit analysis of potential trade-offs and synergies of interventions to diverse system components, and strategies to define and reach systems-level goals. Each approach requires attention to ways to optimize returns to diverse social groups and system components while minimizing negative spin-offs. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for agricultural research and development in the eastern African region. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
German, Laura A.
Uganda, Kampala
African Highlands Initiative
Mansoor, Hussein
Tanzania, Arusha
Selian Agricultural Research Institute
Alemu, Getachew Mengistie
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Holetta Agricultural Research Centre
Mazengia, Waga
Ethiopia
Areka Agricultural Research Centre
Amede, Tilahun
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Ahi
Stroud, Ann
Uganda, Kampala
African Highlands Initiative
Statistics
Citations: 81
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.agsy.2006.08.008
ISSN:
0308521X