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Annex 4: 8 Members and Unit Committees to present their needs beyond the parochial concerns of their individual village. Without the ability to draw up a district profile, the districts are unable to place their needs and demands before higher-up administrative organs. They become subservient to top-down national prescriptions imposed by Regional Coordinating Councils, which are frequently based on minimal and fragmentary nationallevel data substantiating a framework that is essentially built on received wisdom of external origin. To develop policy processes that are more inclusive and respond to the needs of rural dwellers, district level information systems need to be created. The information so derived needs to be able to be processed and updated in ways which enable the concerns of various localities to be reflected in planning procedures. This requires the two-way communication of information between localities and their Unit Committees and the district administration. Unit Committees and Area Councils should be able to collate basic information on their settlements, the characteristics of the population in the settlement, the different livelihood groups within their settlements, the policy interests of different groups, the natural resource base and natural resource conflicts, the incidences of bush fires, etc. They should be able to feed this information to district assemblies and also request information on trends within the districts. This information should also be available to the District Assembly members and the sub-committees and should inform their deliberations. It should go into the formulation of a district profile which informs the planning process and is also conveyed to regional coordinating councils. These information systems need to be built from the community level upwards to achieve responsiveness to changing conditions and the interests of people. This would be in marked contrast to the technocratic information systems which are built by sector organisations which tend to identify optimal land planning production systems based on the inherent physical characteristics of regions rather than the economic activities of their inhabitants.
Annex 4: 9 4.4 The Proposed Programme The major task of the programme will be to identify the interest groups at different points in the hierarchy of the system of decentralisation, from the localities with their Unit Committees through the District administration to the Regional level. Research would identify their information needs, and the major constraints which limit their ability to collect, process and communicate information. It would also strengthen and facilitate their information-generating and communicating processes, and utilise the research capacities of the research team to generate information which these levels can also utilise. This would include access to findings of research services, national databases, remote sensing information, geographical information systems, etc. Natural resource issues, however, are not constrained by the settlements in which people live. The economic activities of different producers are integrated into a regional economy, in which the activities of a wide range of producers define the niche which one particular set of producers can occupy. Many of the problems in natural resources management in particular areas also occur over a wider area, with variations in the processes of adaptation, conflicts, negotiation of conflicts, and institutional innovations. Thus, one means of giving natural resource users greater access to information would be to develop regional networks which would bring farmers together to examine particular problems in natural resource management, different perspectives on the problem and different approaches to the resolution of the programme. This could include situations involving conflicts between different natural resource users that are replicated in a number of localities, such as between charcoal burners and (yam) farmers, where reflections on the different histories of conflict and negotiation, could promote social learning. It could also involve situations in which different natural resource users have worked out a set of different adaptive responses to similar problems, or where the adaptive response in one area has consequences for other natural resource users in other areas.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page List of Acro
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ANNEXES ANNEX 1: A Brief History of
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Abbreviations and Acronyms AgGDP CF
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3 3. The ways in which multiple sta
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5 Underpinning the study is a conce
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7 4. Outputs This study is of a res
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9 Figure 4.1 The Brong Ahafo Region
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11 3. Recent disputes over charcoal
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13 ! The local interests which can
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15 The first purpose of this report
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31 4.1.13 Agricultural intensificat
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35 Table 4.7 Usage of inputs and me
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37 In the more northerly yam farmin
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39 4.1.17 Farmer adaptation and inn
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41 Systems perspectives have domina
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51 4.2 Output 2: ‘Potential alter
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57 4.2.5 Entry Points for research
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63 4.3 Output 3: ‘Increased aware
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65 4.3 Comparison between planned a
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71 Geography, University of Ghana,
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73 6. Environmental Assessment 6.1
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75 7. Contribution of Outputs As a
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77 The District administration is a
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CN00/057: ‘Poverty dimensions of
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Annex 1: 1 Annex 1: A brief history
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