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Annex 1 Study Terms of Reference
Objectives of the baseline study
Garba Tula Governance Baseline Assessment, April 2011
IUCN intends to conduct baseline survey to assess the current status of environmental governance at
the project site and to explore current opportunities for livelihoods for the local community, the specific
objectives of this study are to:
1. Review the political and social conditions for local governance of natural resources in Kenya:
policy constraints and solutions are identified in project sites during the first year, focusing on
the legal, institutional and governance systems for drylands management
2. Identify underlying reasons why current governance arrangement is failing biodiversity and
livelihoods and what kind of governance arrangement is needed in project sites.
3. Identify capacity needs, in relation to the participation of stakeholders in decision making
processes for Natural Resource use and management
4. Identify Institutional constraints/opportunities to community-based conservation and highlight
appropriate institutional or collaborative arrangements through which to strengthen natural
resource governance and ways to link biodiversity conservation decisions with local priorities
5. Identify simple environmental and livelihood indicators that will enable the monitoring of
improvements in Environmental Governance
Scope of work
For baseline survey:
1. Conduct an extensive review of literature, both published and informal, as well as key informant
interviews, examine the current status of natural resources (its utilization, and consumption
pattern), governance-related challenges to natural resource management, the current state of
knowledge, existing good practices and remaining bottlenecks in policy or planning that impede
adoption of good practices
2. Identify and assess the status of existing community institutions and institutional capacity gaps
in governing natural resource/taking stewardship of their resources and provide
recommendations towards improvement in organizational development
3. Review traditional rules, regulations and institutions, statutory rules and regulations, and the
policy and legal options for bringing these institutions together to strengthen natural resource
governance. Identify strengths and weakness of existing governance arrangement.
4. Collate and analyze the outputs and outcomes of previous governance and natural resources
related research and field initiatives conducted by other national and regional organizations
5. Based on this review, what can be done (at different levels) by the project to address the various
obstacles to effective natural resource governance, including actions with communities or
government, policy dialogue, capacity building, rights and empowerment, making an explicit link
to the IUCN Governance Principles outlined in this document
6. Review existing structures and mechanisms through which communities and practitioners (e.g.
Natural resource Users) can engage in policy dialogue and planning discussions
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