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  • 17 - Management of Facilitated Common Pool Resources in India

  • from Part VI - Managing and Restoring the Commons
  • Edited by Sheila R. Foster, Chrystie F. Swiney
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations
    Published online:
    29 October 2021
    Print publication:
    11 November 2021, pp 203-215

  • Summary

    Several funded projects have been implemented to revive the degrading common pool resources (CPR) in rural India. In such projects facilitating agencies play an important role. The extant literature on CPR institutions highlights the role of community and focuses on long-enduring and self-driven CPRs. It does not put much emphasis on facilitated institutions where an external agency plays critical roles. This paper tries to fill this gap by understanding how facilitating organizations engage with local dynamics and influence the outcomes. Based on a qualitative study of CPRs in 19 villages facilitated by 12 agencies in India, the study found that CPR development interventions are context-specific and often go through iterative processes. The facilitating organization does not play the role of a catalyst; instead, it actively influences the decision-making process through complex interactions at the community level. In doing this, the facilitating organization's priorities and preferences (which need not be compatible with the community's priorities) come to the forefront.