form of talk: citizens talking to the state and mutual talk among citizens on matters concerning community development. A …

Over the past two decades, community-based approaches to project delivery have become a popular means for governments … of the National Solidarity Program, a community-driven development program in Afghanistan that created democratically … elected community development councils and funded small-scale development projects. Using a randomized controlled trial across …

This paper estimate the effects of collective action in Nepal?s community forests on four ecological measures of forest … quality. Forest user group collective action is identified through membership in the Nepal Community Forestry Programme … formed. This last, broad category is important, because many community forest user groups outside the program show …

Degradation, known as REDD , payments are community managed forests. However, there is little knowledge about preferences of … households living in community managed forests for REDD contracts, or the opportunity costs of accepting REDD contracts for these … toward the institutional structure of REDD contracts. The sample is split across communities with community managed forests …

have planted trees in community forests during the previous month and to have invested in biogas. They also have planted … more trees on their own farms and spent more time monitoring community forests. As cooperation appears to be highly …

program in Tanzania in 2010, which included popular election of community management committees to run the program. The … citizens to participate in community development projects rises, actual participation in projects and the likelihood of voting …

This paper uses primary data from rural north India to show that participation in a community-level female empowerment …