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Document Author(s): Blomley, Tom , Tola, Prom , Kosal, Mam , Dyna,Eam , Dubois, Mark

A useful look at two of the most important types of CBNRM in Cambodia. Recommendations are included in the areas of: ensuring that potential benefits are secured at the local level, building effective governance of CBNRM institutions, promoting pro-poor policy, adding value to natural resources through commercialization, and supporting institutional development and coordination. On Cambodia’s experiment with CBNRM in the fisheries sector, see also Blake D. Ratner. 2006. Community Management by Decree? Lessons From Cambodia’s Fisheries Reform. Society and Natural Resources, Vol. 19:p. 79–86

Reviewer: GF Taylor

Document type(s):

• Project overview document/gray literature

Star rating: ★★★★

Regions:

• Asia - Southeast

Country: Cambodia

Natural resource(s):

• Fisheries
• Forest

NWP Principles - Nature

• Fostered innovation, social learning, and adaptive management - [Critical]
• Improved information and knowledge management systems - [Critical]
• Built capacity and invested in human resources - [Critical]
• Promoted local land use planning and appropriate resource tenure systems - [Critical]
• Promoted cost effective technical advisory and intermediary services - [Critical]

NWP Principles - Wealth

• Promoted or developed economic strategies for natural resource management - [Critical]
• Assured that resource managers have access to NRM means and benefits - [Critical]
• Invested in local organizations - [Critical]
• Created a framework for better NRM choices - [Critical]
• Strengthened markets and NRM market incentives - [Critical]
• Proportional equivalence between benefits and costs - [Critical]

NWP Principles - Power

• Procedural rights for all people, especially vulnerable or marginalized groups - [Critical]
• Natural resource authority and functions distribution - [Critical]
• Local stakeholder input into public decisions and policy - [Critical]
• Continuous and inclusive consultations - [Critical]

Tools used

• Tree tenure rights
• Devolution to communities
• Devolution to local governments