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- Title
Examining the Potential of Indigenous Institutions for Development: A Perspective from Borana, Ethiopia.
- Authors
Watson, Elizabeth E.
- Abstract
Abstract This article examines an institutional approach to development in which indigenous institutions are viewed as a resource for achieving development. It concentrates on indigenous natural resource management (NRM) institutions which have been seen by some development agencies to be a means to address the needs of people and the environment in a way that is also participatory. Using material from Borana, Ethiopia, the article describes the indigenous NRM institutions and examines the outcome of one attempt to work with them. In the process, it shows that partnerships between development agencies and indigenous NRM institutions are often fragile, and tend to dissolve when they fail to meet the preconceptions of the developers. Through an examination of this approach to development, the article also examines the usefulness of recent broad approaches to institutions.
- Subjects
ETHIOPIA; ECONOMIC development; NATURAL resources
- Publication
Development & Change, 2003, Vol 34, Issue 2, p287
- ISSN
0012-155X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-7660.00306