Madagascar Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Value - Microlinks
Madagascar Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Value - Microlinks
Madagascar Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Value - Microlinks
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. Strengthening local government. Receipts from payment of taxes are a potential source of revenue for cashstrapped<br />
communal governments. However, few of them have the capacity to monitor or enforce their own<br />
policies in this regard, so there is significant leakage. Strengthening this capacity, enabling communal governments<br />
to collect taxes, could provide incentive <strong>and</strong> ability for them to monitor resource use—particularly to limit<br />
destructive harvesting of high-value, wildcrafted forest AMP. These funds could be used in part to invest in<br />
natural resource management. But they can also contribute to improving the effectiveness <strong>and</strong> responsiveness of<br />
nascent local governments in a general sense by fostering accountability from constituents if seen as contributing<br />
financial resources of consequence.<br />
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