The conference presented results of the three-year global research project supported by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It brought together six research teams and relevant policymakers from project countries (Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, the Philippines, and Uganda) with the aim of identifying and synthesizing policy lessons from this CAPRi-sponsored project. It also discussed the key issues to be considered in implementing policy lessons, including effective ways for disseminating the research findings. Another goal of the conference was to forge stronger linkages between researchers and policymakers and to stimulate new discussions on the role of the institutions of collective action and property rights in poverty reduction.

IFPRI Press Release, February 28, 2007

Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, CAPRi

Welcome Address
Michael Kirk, Philipps University, Marburg on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

The Institutional Foundations of Natural Resource Management: Lessons from Empirical and Action Research in the African Highlands Initiative
Laura German, AHI

Collective Action to Secure Property Rights for the Poor: Avoiding Elite Capture of Resource Benefits and Governance Systems
Heru Komarudin, CIFOR

Collective Action for Watershed Management in Semi-Arid India: Strategic Policy and Institutional Options
Ratna Reddy, CESS and Bekele Shiferaw, ICRISAT

Leveraging Rural Institutions for Collective Action to Improve Markets for the Poor in Semi-Arid Kenya
Bekele Shiferaw, ICRISAT

Collective Action, Vulnerability and Pathways from Poverty: Evidence from Ethiopia and the Philippines
John Hoddinott, IFPRI

The Conflicting Transformation of the Pastoral Commons: Collective action and Property Rights among (agro-)Pastoralists of Eastern Ethiopia
Martina Padmanabhan, Humboldt-University, Berlin

Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction: Case Study of Cambodia
Michael Kirk, Philipps University, Marburg

For further information download the conference booklet.

• IASCP conference in Oaxaca, 2005
• IASCP conference in Bali, 2006
• Marburg workshop, September 2005
• Washington, DC workshop, September 2006
• Overview of the CAPRi research projects