Bridging communities and technocrats: Guinea's experiences on forest resource governance

This paper presents a range of efforts in terms of horizontal dialogue and harmonization of interests between communities and technocrats in Guineawhile also sharin experinces in ICRAF and CIFOR to move beyond conflicting perceptions and control through the approach called farmers initiative an vision(FIVA) combined with others such as Co-management, collective action and Group-Dynamics.From a participatory action reseach perspective, a pluristic process based on those approaches was engaged since 2005, taking in accoount the interest, ,powers and ligitimacy of different stakeholders analysis, visioning/future scenarios, village group discussions and informal interviews during various multi-stakehholders interactions. Details of key achievements, lessons learnt and challenges are herin presented. Reading through this shared experiences, we belive the provided information could serve to mitigate forest resources based conflicts among stakeholders in West Africa and forest cover may be harnessed as there will be posibilities to quick off the move from customary and formal rights with reguards to forest resources in various forested landscapes.

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