Moore, Keith M.Bertelsen, MichaelDiarra, L.Kodio, AmadouCissé, SalmanaWyeth, P.2016-04-192016-04-191999SANREM CRSP WA Working Paper no. 01-02 Paper prepared for the Institutional Development Theme Session of the IFSA Symposium, Santiago, Chile, November 2000109_0102.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65708A far-reaching restructuring is beginning to take place in West Africa. There is general recognition in the region that central governments are poorly placed to make many decisions appropriate for local levels. Particularly in areas of agriculture and natural resource management (NRM), local populations are being asked to take leadership in deciding appropriate land uses and ownership/usufruct of resources. The continuing and accelerating degradation of the natural resource base and changes in the socioeconomic environment of the region has added urgency to decentralization strategies. However, the current policy of decentralization across West Africa has become largely a matter of deconcentration. Although village-level (terroir) management has demonstrated significant success in community-based NRM, authority and resources resulting from decentralization laws do not reach this level. This paper describes the SANREM CRSP s attempt to organize and support a provincial-level NRM advisory board and orient technical interventions by providing training in Holistic Management.application/pdfen-USIn CopyrightDroughtLeadership developmentLand tenureCommunity participationEmpowermentDecentralizationPastoralismNatural resource managementAdoption of innovationsHolistic management trainingSocioeconomic changesNatural resource degradationVillage level managementAdvisory boardTechnical interventionsEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale GovernancePresentationCopyright 2000 Office for International Research and Development