This is a tool kit for trainers and facilitators who want to plan workshops and other types of learning experiences based on the concepts and ideas covered in Book One.

This manual has planning tools to increase collaboration and participation within local governments, NGOs, CBOs, leaders, staff, and citizen constituents. Part I includes the participatory planning process as it has evolved over time and provides strategies for implementing the process.

The book includes training design ideas and exercises in case you want to organise and conduct a more traditional learning event. For example, you might want to conduct a short workshop to introduce the concepts and ideas of participatory planning to local government and community leaders, brief trainers and facilitators on how to use the materials to design or facilitate a participatory planning process working with a planning team assembled by local leaders.

India’s bold central policy change for joint forest management between government and communities has resulted in regeneration of considerable areas of forest, and has expanded the policy community through inclusion of more stakeholders. But these successes are matched by concerns that forestry departments are still calling the shots, whilst in some cases, serious local inequities are being exacerbated. ~This report describes the evolution of powers over policy, the legacy of colonial forestry, the inertia of ‘fortress forestry’ institutions, the favoured forest industries and the protectionist agenda, which seeks to lock away forests from people’s use. These powers need to be tackled openly and concertedly for the ideal of joint forest management and the potential of farm forestry to be fully realised. The report shows how this can be done through policy processes, instruments, programmes and information which foster productive and equitable forest management.

This book presents and discusses several key aspects of Africa’s ongoing land policy debate including legislative reform, the management of land rights, issues of implementation, and policy-making processes.