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Household Livelihood Strategies and Local Institutions - A Working Paper Series - Norman M. Messer Mapping Traditional Structures in Decentralisation Policies: Illustrations from Three Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Near East Working Paper No. 12 January 2001 Rural Development Division |
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Background1.2.(i) The broad institutional framework of decentralisation and rural development
2. COMPARING THE INCOMPARABLE? Placing the issues in a rural development context
2.1. Modern technocratic versus indigenous knowledge
2.2. Traditional institutional structures vis-à-vis processes of decentralisation
2.3. Social capital as linked to mutual support and conflict resolution mechanisms
2.4. Roles and status: Existing dimensions of traditional leadership2.4.(i) West African land management institutions: The example of Mali
2.5. Traditional institutions’ support to local livelihoods at the state-civil society interface
3. INTERMEDIARIES AND FACILITATORS of development
4. LEGAL ASPECTS of community-based natural resource management