The Millennium Development Goals remind us of the fundamental relationship between poverty reduction and equitable and sustainable development. Community based approaches to natural resource management aim to work on these processes concurrently. However, there are diverse views on the effectiveness of Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in supporting benefit sharing and increasing the voice of marginalized groups. This book brings together a set of papers that particularly examine the potential of CBNRM initiatives to contribute to equity in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

These papers were developed at the 'Eleventh Workshop on Community Management of Forest Lands: Equity in CBNRM,' which was co-facilitated by the East-West Center and RECOFTC and funded by the Ford Foundation.

Front matter: Title Page, Foreword, Acknowledgements, Table of Contents

CONTENTS:

Introduction: Equity in Community-Based Resource Management

Sango Mahanty, Jefferson Fox, Leslie McLees, Michael Nurse, and Peter Stephen

Indicating Success: Evaluation of Community Protected Areas in Cambodia

Socheat Leakhena San

Total Factor Productivity Change and Poverty Reduction in China: Experiences from Three Counties

Can Liu

Who is in? Who is out? Equity and Customary Community Forest Management in Meghalaya, India

A. Kyrham Nongkynrih

Managing Forest with Community (PHBM) in Central Java: Promoting Equity in Access to NTFPs

Diah Djajanti

Enabling Policy and Procedures in a National Park: A Struggle for Equity Case Study in Kuningan Districts, West Java

Ratna Isnaini

Impacts of Cash Crops on Rural Livelihoods: A Case Study from Muang Sing, Luang Namtha Province, Northern Lao PDR

Thongmanivong Sithong and Vongvisouk Thoumthone

Do Civil Society Organizations Promote Equity in Community Forestry? A Reflection from Nepal's Experiences

Harisharan Luintel

Widening the Gap between Terai and Hill Farmers in Nepal: The Implications of the New Forest Policy 2000

Bhola Bhattarai

Promoting Equity: A Challenge in the Implementation of Community-Based Forest Management Strategy in the Philippines

Domingo T. Bacalla

Improving Rural Livelihood Through CBNRM: A Case of Self-organization in Community Mangrove Management in Thailand

Somyiing Soontornwong

Forest Devolution in Dak Lak, Vietnam: Improving Forest Management or Livelihoods of the Poor?

Tan Quang Nguyen