Legal empowerment for local resource control
Legal empowerment for local resource control
Legal empowerment for local resource control
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />
This publication summarises the findings of a scoping study undertaken <strong>for</strong> the<br />
project “<strong>Legal</strong> tools <strong>for</strong> community <strong>empowerment</strong>”. The project is coordinated by<br />
IIED and implemented in partnership with FIELD, CEPIL (Ghana), the Faculty of Law<br />
of the University of Ghana (Ghana), GERSDA (Mali), CTV (Mozambique), IED Afrique<br />
(Senegal) and the Faculty of Law of the University of Dakar (Senegal). Funding <strong>for</strong><br />
the scoping study was provided by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS) and<br />
by the UK Department <strong>for</strong> International Development (DFID).<br />
The study received additional support from the “Forest Governance Learning Group”,<br />
a programme coordinated by IIED and funded by the European Commission and by<br />
DGIS. It also benefited from independent research I am undertaking as part of a PhD<br />
programme at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh.<br />
I would like to thank Dominic Ayine, Ced Hesse, James Mayers, Sonja Vermeulen<br />
and Halina Ward <strong>for</strong> their useful comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this<br />
study; and Lorand Bartels, Alan Boyle, Mathias Siems and Stephen Tierney <strong>for</strong> their<br />
useful comments and suggestions on the parts of my PhD that fed into this study.<br />
I remain responsible <strong>for</strong> the views expressed here, and <strong>for</strong> any omissions and<br />
errors. Thanks also to Marie Jaecky <strong>for</strong> her help with some of the diagrams; to<br />
Nicole Kenton <strong>for</strong> her help with finalising this publication; and to Lucia Lavric <strong>for</strong><br />
her constant support and <strong>for</strong> her help with numbers.<br />
I would also like to thank all those involved in the “<strong>Legal</strong> tools” project <strong>for</strong> our<br />
fruitful and stimulating conversations. Thanks in particular to those who attended<br />
the inception workshop (London, September 2006): Dominic Ayine, Bara Guèye, Nii<br />
Ashie Kotey, Tundu Lissu, Ilona Millar, Alda Salomao, Christoph Schwarte, Linda<br />
Siegele, Cheickhou Sylla, Halina Ward and Andrew Williams. Thanks also to Moussa<br />
Djiré and Amadou Keita, who were not at the workshop but have appropriated the<br />
project as if they had been.
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