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Making Partnerships Work:International lessons in the practice of community-university research partnerships
Joanna Ochocka (CCBR) – Moderator
Nirmala Lall (University of Victoria): International Partnership
Katherine Graham (Carleton University)– Local Partnership
CUExpo May 2011
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The Sub-Saharan Africa Participatory Research Network (REPAS) Community University Partnership Programme (Univ. Brighton)Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex)Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios (CEBEM)
Global Alliance for Community-Engaged Research (GACER) - International Comparative Research Project Strengthening Knowledge Strategies for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development: a global study on community-university research partnerships
University of Victoria, University of Carleton and University of Quebec - Montreal
Society of Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)The Living Knowledge Network (LKN Europe)
Canadian Leadership
Existing Global Partners
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Municipalities in the province of Velasco: San Ignacio, San
Miguel and San Rafael, Spanish Co-operation - Technical Office
in Bolivia, Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios
(CEBEM, or the Bolivian Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies),
University of Córdoba (Spain) and Carleton University (Canada)
• Forest development project in the Chiquitania region was formally identified in 2003
• Started in 2004; Methodological Development and Systemisation Phase 2006; Completion 2007
Bolivia Small Forest Producers in the Chiquitania region
Making Partnerships Work: Partners
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BackgroundSmall Forest Producers in the Chiquitania region
• Precious woods are products of high value that can be acquired from communities through local intermediaries at very low prices. Timber buyers acquire timber from people and communities through a system of loans and exchanges that often disadvantages small producers
Bolivia: Co-operation in the forestry sector
Source: World Wildlife Fund Bolivia
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• Small Forest Producers in the Chiquitania region• Intermediaries rather than small producers themselves were the principal beneficiaries of international support.
• Small producers in the region requested, through their municipal governments, support from the Spanish Co-operation (major funder along with Prefecture of Santa Cruz, Velasco Province, Cordoba University and Carleton University
• Question arose as to how to ensure that international co-operation/support would be helpful in generating higher and more sustainable incomes for families from the most disadvantaged groups, socially and economically.
Bolivia: Co-operation in the forestry sector
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• Forest engineering, by itself, proved insufficient to develop actions in such a highly complex situation (market actors, environmental movements, international relations, global consumers )
• Key success factor: Start research from the point of dialogue considering two concepts as far apart as forestry and social research
• Small Forest Producers in the Chiquitania region
Making Partnerships WorkLesson related to determining a starting point
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• First phase, mid-2004, formulation of the basis for the research approach and funding; progress in improving living standards of the target population was barely perceptible
• End of 2004, the project received further technical assistance; research work was combined with the coordinating role of the project
• Uncertain how to get actors and their communities of interest to respond
Small Forest Producers in the Chiquitania region
Making Partnerships Work Lessons related to Structure
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• Situation changed in early 2006; project began to operate as a business
• Striking results regarding the interests of beneficiaries; gave the project the necessary impetus to carry out its social strategy; movement to systematise a model
• Project moved from a general assessment of community forestry management to a single study case
• Geographical scope of the project was restricted (to municipalities of San Ignacio, San Miguel and San Rafael de Velasco)
Making Partnerships Work Lessons related to Structure
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• Mutual trust already existed between communities and CEBEM team; CEBEM previously worked with all agencies involved
• Institutional coordination undertaken by the Natural Resources Directorate of the Prefecture of the Department of Santa Cruz
• At a national level, activities were coordinated by the Vice-Ministry of Biodiversity, Forest Resources and Environment
• Management unit in the area established to manage the project and coordinate technical assistance. Collaborative research coordination for social action established in this unit
Making Partnerships WorkLessons related to Coordination
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• Constant need to exchange information and knowledge from a distance; overcome by using online tools in CEBEM’s Forestry Development Platform (http://www.desarrolloforestal.org)
• Need to find a common language between different knowledge communities – Tools used relied on symbols and diagrams and SAS2 (Social Analysis Systems Software)
• Later in the project involvement included funding for capitalizing actual knowledge regarding community forestry through online platforms: University of Cordoba, Carleton University and IDRC worked on the International Social Analysis Systems (SAS2) project.
Making Partnerships WorkLessons related to Technology
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• External assistance was sought for knowledge regarding forestry, business, law and development co-operation
• Everyday knowledge of the local project participants
• Outcome: Dialogue between knowledge systems and the interests involved in the community forestry process, allowed the collaborative research process to become gradually more advanced.
Making Partnerships Work Lessons related to Knowledge
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Making Partnerships Work:International lessons in the practice of community-university research partnerships
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