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ACM was a major CIFOR program from 1998 until
the mid-2000s. It evolved out of two previous projects: Assessing
Sustainable Forest Management: A Test of Criteria and Indicators,
led by Ravi Prabhu; and Local Livelihoods, Community Forests, and
Devolution, led by Eva Wollenberg.
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CIFOR’s definition of adaptive
collaborative management
ACM is a value-adding approach whereby
people who have interests in a forest agree to act together
to plan, observe and learn from the implementation of their
plans while recognising that plans often fail to achieve
their stated objectives. ACM is characterised by conscious
efforts among such groups to communicate, collaborate,
negotiate, and seek out opportunities to learn collectively
about the impacts of their actions. Working with a given
group of people requires involving other people acting on
other scales—usually at least one level down and one level
up (e.g., user groups within a community and district
officials). Effective facilitation can act as a catalyst to
empower communities to improve their own conditions, both
human and environmental. |
ACM team members, including both CIFOR
researchers and partners, conducted participatory action
research in a dozen countries around the world and produced a
vast array of materials (tools, descriptions, analyses, policy
briefs, etc.) that have proved useful in a number of subsequent
projects. We hope to make these products available to the
readers of this web page as well.
The following nine realms of current action at
CIFOR and beyond represent examples wherein the ACM research has
contributed to moving our empowerment goals forwards. They
demonstrate some aspects of the evolution of the approach and
expanded uses.
These realms (with the appropriate contact
person) include:
1)
Methods and Tools
(Linda Yuliani,
l.yuliani@cgiar.org)
2)
Decentralisation (Moira Moeliono,
m.moeliono@cgiar.org)
3)
Modelling (Herry Purnomo,
h.purnomo@cgiar.org)
4)
Conflict Studies (Yurdi Yasmi,
yurdi@recoftc.org)
5)
Grassroots Networking (Peter Cronkleton,
p.cronkleton@cgiar.org)
6)
Collective Action (Heru Komarudin,
h.komarudin@cgiar.org)
7)
Rights and Resources (Elena Petkova,
p.petkova@cgiar.org)
8)
Landscape Biodiversity and Livelihoods (Jean-Laurent
Pfund, j.pfund@cgiar.org)
9)
Climate Change Adaptation (Bruno Locatelli,
b.locatelli@cgiar.org)
To find those involved in the original
11-country program, go to ACM
Team Members. They represent a cadre of people knowledgeable
about the approach.
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