Street-Level Bureaucrats at Work: A Municipality-Level Institutional Analysis of Community-Based Natural Resource Management Implementation Practice in the Pasture Sector of Kyrgyzstan

Sustainability

Wibke Crewett¹ 

[1]Division of Resource Economics, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute, Humboldt University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany

[2] E-Mail

关键词: community-based management;    Kyrgyzstan;    participation;    institutional change;    implementation;    pasture;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su7033146

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The article looks into lowest-level policy implementers’ (street-level bureaucrats’) role in donor-initiated natural resource governance reforms. The article employs an institutional analysis framework with a specific policy implementation focus. A multiple case study reviews a resource user information campaign during the early phase of a community-based pasture management reform in Kyrgyzstan. It finds implementation rule simplification by policy implementers at the expense of full resource user involvement as a result of an insufficient contextual fit of the formal information rules. The results emphasize the need of well-designed implementation rules in order to ensure full and equitable resource user involvement in community-based natural resource management (CBNRM).

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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