Please follow the links of single agenda items to access the presentations and background readings.
If you want to read more take a look at the Supplementary Reading list.

MONDAY, 7 February 2005:
INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS FOR NRM: PROPERTY RIGHTS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION ISSUES

1.  OPENING & THE CAPRI PROGRAM

Presentations:

• Collective Action, property rights, and natural resource management (Ruth Meinzen-Dick)

Readings:

• Collective Action and Technologies for Natural Resource Management. Anna Knox and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. Property Rights. CAPRi Policy Brief 1. Washington DC: IFPRI. October 1999.
• CAPRi Glossary
• Property Rights, Collective Action and Technologies for Natural Resource Management. Anna Knox, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Peter Hazell. CAPRi Working Paper 1. Washington DC: IFPRI. 1998.
• Collective Action and Property Rights for Sustainable Development. Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Monica Di Gregorio eds. 2020 Focus 11. Washington DC: IFPRI. February 2004.

2.  COLLECTIVE ACTION: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Presentations:

• Overview of different approaches for studying collective action in NRM (Ruth Meinzen-Dick)
• Collective Action game (Stephan Dohrn)
• Collective action in watershed management: a case study from India (Dr. SP Wani) - Background Document
• Collective action in fisheries: a case from Sri Lanka (Asha Gunawardena) - Background Document

Readings:

• Understanding Collective Action. Elinor Ostrom. 2020 Focus 11, Brief No. 2. Washington DC: IFPRI. February 2004.
• Local-Level Public Goods and Collective Action. Nancy McCarthy. 2020 Focus 11, Brief No. 4. Washington DC: IFPRI. February 2004.
• Instructions for the Experimental Game
• Local Organizations for Natural Resource Management Lessons from Theoretical and Empirical Literature. Lise Nordvig Rasmussen and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. Environment and Production Technology Discussion Paper 11. Washington DC: IFPRI. 1995.
• The Role of Property Rights and Collective Action for Poverty Reduction. Monica Di Gregorio, Konrad Hagedorn, Michael Kirk, Benedikt Korf, Nancy McCarthy, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Brent Swallow. Paper prepared for the EDGI- WIDER conference on Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors, Helsinki, Finland, 17-18 September 2004.
• What do people bring into the game: experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons. Juan-Camilo Cárdenas and Elinor Ostrom. CAPRi Working Paper 32. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2004.

 

TUESDAY, 8 February 2005:
PROPERTY RIGHTS THEORY AND PRACTICE

3.  PROPERTY RIGHTS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Presentations:

• Theory of property rights (Esther Mwangi)
• Case Study: Land tenure (Prof. D. Rajasekhar)
• Case Study: Forest, Agriculture and Livestock Interaction in Western Ghats Region of Karnataka, India (Dr. Prakash)

Readings:

• Understanding Property Rights. Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Rajendra Pradhan and Monica Di Gregorio. 2020 Focus 11, Brief No. 3. Washington DC: IFPRI. February 2004.
• Strengthening Property Rights for the Poor. John W. Bruce. 2020 Focus 11, Brief No. 16. Washington DC: IFPRI. February 2004.
• Legal Pluralism and Dynamic Property Rights. Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Rajendra Pradhan. CAPRi Working Paper 22. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2002.

4.  GENDER, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION

Presentations:

• Gender issues in PR and CA: Overview (Esther Mwangi)
• Case: Gender and Collective Action in Watershed Management (Mrs. T.K. Sreedevi) - Background Document
• Working groups on gender aspects
  - Case Group 2: Gender Issues in a Community Forest User Group in Nepal

Readings:

• Empowering Women to Achieve Food Security: Overview. Agnes R. Quisumbing and Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick. 2020 Focus 6, Brief No. 1. Washington DC: IFPRI. August 2001.
• Land Rights. Eve Crowley. 2020 Focus 6, Brief No. 2. Washington DC: IFPRI. August 2001.
• Water Rights. Barbara Van Koppen. 2020 Focus 6, Brief No. 3. Washington DC: IFPRI. August 2001.
• Social Capital. Mercy S. Dikito-Wachtmeister. 2020 Focus 6, Brief No. 9. Washington DC: IFPRI. August 2001.
• Gender, Property Rights, and Natural Resources. Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick, Lynn R. Brown, Hilary Sims Feldstein and Agnes R. Quisumbing. Food Consumption and Nutrition Discussion Paper 29. Washington, D.C.: IFPRI. 1997.
• Group Functioning and Community Forestry in South Asia: A Gender Analysis and Conceptual Framework. Bina Agarwal. UNU/WIDER Working Paper No. 172. Helsinki, Finland: UNU/ WIDER. 2000.

 

WEDNESDAY, 9 February 2005:
IN PRACTICE: HOW DO WE STRENGTHEN PR AND CA

5.  FIELD TRIP

Readings:

• Farmer Participatory Integrated watershed Management : Adarsha Watershed, Kothapally, India : An Innovative and Upscalable Approach. Wani, S.P., Singh, H.P., Sreedevi, T.K., Pathak, P., Rego, T.J., Shiferaw, B. and Iyer, S.R. 2003.
• Adarsha Watershed in Kothapally : Understanding the Drivers of Higher Impact. Sreedevi, T.K., Shiferaw, B., and Wani, S.P. 2004.
• The Making of New Powerguda : Community Empowerment and New Technologies Transform a Problem Village in Andhra Pradesh. D’Silva, E., Wani, S.P. and Nagnath, B. 2004.

6.  ACTION RESEARCH: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Presentations:

• Action Research approaches (NL Narasimha Reddy)
• Working groups: How to strengthen CA or PR?
  - Case Group 2: Strengthened Actions for Governance

Readings:

• Methods of consensus building for community based fisheries management in Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta. Parvin Sultana and Paul Thompson. CAPRi Working Paper 30. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2003.
• Methods for studying collective action in rural development. Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Monica Di Gregorio and Nancy McCarthy. CAPRi Working Paper 33. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2004.

 

THURSDAY, 10 February 2005:
RESEARCH METHODS

7.  METHODOLOGIES/ OPERATIONALIZING THE FRAMEWORK

Presentations:

• Overview of research methods (Esther Mwangi)
• Qualitative, ethnographic methods (Rajendra Pradhan)
• Case Study Property Rights analysis (Rajendra Pradhan)
• Working Groups: indicators of CA and PR
  - Case Group 1: Collective Action in Management of Forests
  - Case Group 4: Effect of Sand Mining on Groundwater Depletion in Karnataka

Readings:

• Methods for studying collective action in rural development. Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Monica Di Gregorio and Nancy McCarthy. CAPRi Working Paper 33. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2004.
• Assessing the Relationships Between Property Rights and Technology Adoption in Smallholder Agriculture: A Review of Issues and Empirical Methods. Frank Place and Brent Swallow. CAPRi Working Paper 2. Washington DC: IFPRI. 1998.
• Understanding, measuring and utilizing social capital: Clarifying concepts and presenting a field application from India. Anirudh Krishna. CAPRi Working Paper 28. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2003.
• In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action. Amy Poteete and Elinor Ostrom. CAPRi Working Paper 29. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2003.

Evening Session:

• Agrarian Reform in Iran (Samira Farahani)
• Community Lead Natural Resource Management and Conservation in Mongolia’s Southern Gobi Region (Tunga Ulambayar)
• Property rights change: The case of the pastoral Maasai in southwest Kenya (Esther Mwangi)

 

FRIDAY, 11 February 2005:
RESEARCH METHODS

7.4 Survey methods: highlight endogenous/exogenous variable

Presentations:

• Survey methods (Ruth Meinzen-Dick)
• Collective Action analysis: case study of Indian canal irrigation (Dr. K. V. Raju)

Readings:

• Cooperation, collective action and natural resources management in Burkina Faso. Nancy McCarthy, Céline Dutilly-Diané and Boureima Drabo. CAPRi Working Paper 27. Washington DC: IFPRI. 2002.
• What Affects Organization and Collective Action for Managing Resources? Evidence from Canal Irrigation Systems in India. Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick, K. V. Raju and Ashok Gulati. Environment and Production Technology Discussion Paper 61. Washington, D.C.: IFPRI. 2000.

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