TY  - JOUR
T1  - Local Communities and Collaborative Forest Management in West Bugwe Forest Reserve, Eastern Uganda
AU - Otieno, A.C. AU - Buyinza, M. AU - Kapiyo, R.A. AU - Oindo, B.O. 
JO  - Environmental Research Journal
VL  - 7
IS  - 4
SP  - 69
EP  - 78
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1994-5396
DO  - erj.2013.69.78
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=erj.2013.69.78
KW  - Co-management
KW  -forestry policy
KW  -house holds
KW  -illegalities
KW  -national forestry authority
AB  - Bureaucratic controls over natural resources when tightened 
  world over Uganda inclusive have often led to heightened conflicts amongst apparent 
  stakeholders. This has furthered assault on the ecosystem rather than conservation 
  in developing countries. Collaborative Forest Management (CFM), an all inclusive 
  approach on agreement is ostensibly an effective conservation strategy for the 
  protected forest resources openly accessed in most developing nations. A study 
  of 225 households in the proximity of West Bugwe Forest Reserve (WBFR), Busia 
  district in Eastern Uganda revealed that many respondents agreed that poverty 
  (93.2%) and pressure on land (92%) were cardinal push factors into non-compliance 
  with the forestry policy at WBFR while the illegalities carried out were charcoal 
  burning, fuel wood collection, construction material exploitation and farming 
  in the forest reserve; the local communities were ready to conserve the WBFR 
  through out the three parishes where H was 4.1&lt;&#967;<SUP>2</SUP> = 15.5 
  and using a Likert scale the local communities living adjacent to WBFR were 
  positive towards their relationship with National Forestry Authority (NFA) officials 
  in CFM. This was manifested in their scores of response viz. very much willing 
  (370), willing (272) and a close to two thirds positive response (63.1%). Contradictorily 
  less than half (40.5%) trusted NFA in the CFM despite a relatively high rating 
  as very trustworthy (235) and trustworthy (176). In collaboration the local 
  communities agreed to be active in conservation and protection of WBFR. The 
  researchers therefore recommended that CFM be adopted in the area, communication 
  be improved, energy saving stoves be used, government to be positive in poverty 
  alleviation country wide, the local communities engage in commercial farming 
  and trait transformation amongst the NFA officials.
ER  -