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Box 1.6<br />

An Overview of the Tools for Gathering Information at the Village or Community Level<br />

1. Wealth Ranking (village leadership).<br />

Aim: to select participants who are representative<br />

of the local population for the Toolkit exercises<br />

2. Local Landscape Situation Analysis (toolkit team<br />

plus selected villagers)<br />

Aim: to understand the way in which local<br />

resources are used by members of the village.<br />

3. Timeline and Trends (village plenary)<br />

Aim: to record a short history of the community<br />

against which to project a picture of changes in forest<br />

resources, in agriculture, in local livelihood<br />

strategies and sources of income. This tool can also<br />

be used at the district and national levels.<br />

4. Livelihood Analysis (in groups selected by gender<br />

and wealth category)<br />

Aim: to discover the extent of cash and subsistence<br />

reliance on forest resources and the proportion<br />

of the total annual livelihood (from all sources)<br />

from forest resources. This tool can also be used at<br />

the district and national levels.<br />

5. Tree and Forest Product Importance (in groups<br />

selected by gender and wealth category)<br />

Aim: to rank forest products by importance for<br />

cash and subsistence uses. This tool can also be used<br />

at the national level. If time is limited, information<br />

gained by the use of this tool can be deduced from<br />

tool 4.<br />

6. Users, User Rights, User Responsibilities, and User<br />

Benefits (in groups selected by gender and wealth<br />

category)<br />

Aim: to have local people list all forest stakeholders,<br />

the benefits they derive from the forest, and the<br />

rights and responsibilities they exercise.<br />

7. Forest Problem and Solution Matrix (in groups<br />

selected by gender and wealth category)<br />

Aim: to identify and rank the main forest problems,<br />

and suggest potential solutions. Problems<br />

include those related to policy, rules and regulations,<br />

tenure, and access. This tool can also be used<br />

at the district and national levels to focus on higherlevel<br />

issues.<br />

8. Final Plenary<br />

Aim: to present the main findings from the subgroups<br />

in plenary so that key emerging issues can be<br />

summarized.<br />

Source: PROFOR forthcoming a.<br />

Note: People from whom information is sought are listed in parentheses.<br />

Box 1.7<br />

Livelihood Analysis in Busongo,Tanzania<br />

Livelihood analysis can be used to discover the extent<br />

of reliance on forest resources and the proportion of<br />

their contribution to annual cash and noncash<br />

incomes. In groups selected by gender and wealth category,<br />

participants are asked to distribute beans or<br />

stones across a list of forest products (for example,<br />

gum, charcoal, timber), allocating more where cash<br />

income sources are more important. The exercise is<br />

repeated for farm produce (crops and livestock), other<br />

sources, such as petty trade, and for noncash income<br />

sources. Participants are then asked to list sources of<br />

cash for different kinds of expenditures and identify<br />

whether the forest is used for investment. This exercise<br />

can show forest contributions to the achievement of<br />

the MDGs. For example, in eradicating extreme<br />

poverty and hunger (goal 1), villagers in Busongo cite<br />

20–29 percent of livelihoods comes from forest contributions<br />

and that charcoal, fuelwood, ghee and milk,<br />

livestock, gum, thatch, and fodder grass contribute<br />

directly and indirectly to the meeting of these goals.<br />

Source: PROFOR forthcoming b.<br />

28 CHAPTER 1: FORESTS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION

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