Democratic Decentralization of Forest Resource Management in Senegal

 This collaborative research programme on the structure and the effect of decentralization of management of forest resources had the objective of putting in place social and ecological public policies of the forest sector in Senegal in a durable manner, in the context of decentralization.

 The programme comprised two parts

• The first part consisted of a series of studies at the village level which concentrated on the local institutional changes to the management of natural resources.

• The second part consisted of a study on the regulation of the rural and urban markets for the sale of charcoal

This research was undertaken in a period of 16 months by 5 young researchers. The project came to a close on the 8^th of May 2006 with a conference held in Dakar

 Collaborating partners: CODESRIA – World Research Institute (WRI)- Centre de Cooopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Devéloppment (CIRAD)

• Activities

• Conferences

• Past events

  • Two dissemination workshops were held on the 14^th in Tambacounda and on the 8^th in Dakar.

•  Publications and dissemination

  •  New books

    • Décentralisation, pluralisme institutionnel et démocratie locale: étude de cas de la gestion du massif forestier Missirah/Kothiary  par Pape Faye

    • Décentralisation san représentation : le charbon de bois entre les collectivités locales et l’État par Ahmadou M. Kante

    •  Le quota est mort, vive le quota ! On les vicissitudes de la réglementation de l’exploitation du charbon de bois au Sénégal par El Hadji Dialigué Bâ