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Internationally, increasing attention is given to the roles, functions, characteristics and performance of institutions for natural resource management in promoting sustainable development, poverty reduction and equitable access to resources at all leveles. One important conclusion to come out of this work is that in many cases is necessary to focus on institutional reform to further sustainable development. Given the need for such reforms there is a corresponding need to learn more about existing institutions, how to do institutional reform and how to share such experiences, and also how to place such activities in an overall learning and training context.
Many bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, NGOs, civil society, and the public sector in developing and transition economies agree on this agenda. A consensus on the problems with many existing institutions for natural resource management, and the challenges ahead, is thus emerging. This consensus builds upon a need to collaborate more, share information, and learn from each other, all within an increasingly networked and shared environment.
Towards this, the World Bank Institute of the World Bank, in conjunction with Ford Foundation, International Development Research Center and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, organized an international workshop on Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) that took place in Washington D.C., United States on 10-14 May 1998. In addition to the above Sponsors, there were a number of Partners to the workshop: Africa Resources Trust, World Bank Group's Common Property Resource Management Network (CPRNet), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), and IUCN-The World Conservation Union.
The workshop was originally conceived as part of a series of international workshops on institutional reform for sustainable rural development. The first workshop was held on the topic of rural infrastructure, in Washington D.C., in May 1997.
It is our hope that the international CBNRM workshop in Washington D.C. in May 1998, and this website, will be an important and useful statement of CBNRM internationally, that it is a useful tool that contributes to furthering an inter-disciplinary, robust and active CBNRM agenda.
Last Updated: June 28, 2002
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