Description

The project coordinator and a team of CIFOR-ICRAF researchers based in Africa, Asia, and Latin America conduct a desk review of the academic and grey literature on GOV-CSO partnerships in the land sector. We review successes and failures to synthesize key lessons for GOV-CSO partnerships and include literature from a systematic search complemented through a snowball of relevant texts and cases based on the team’s specialties and cases suggested by the ILC and our networks. We focus on the land sector but include a wider scope of sectors in our search that may have more available and transferable evidence (e.g., climate change, conservation, development). As part of the review process, we map and select six case studies (two in each of Africa, Asia, and Latin America) for a deep dive into the planning, processes, and outcomes of these partnerships. The available evidence in publications is supplemented with selected interviews with the authors of publications and proponents of each partnership to gain better insight into each, and information on their evolution past the publication date of the available literature.