participatory technology development

PARTICIPATORY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (PTD) APPROACH IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

BACKGROUND

• Economic development depends critically on natural resources that are fragile and being rapidly degraded;

• links between poverty, economic incentives, institutional weaknesses in government, and destruction of natural resources more visible than in other least developed countries;

• despite $4.5 billion of aid for projects affecting natural resources, resource degradation continues, and country's scope for improving living standards diminishes (World Bank report, 2008).

INTRODUCTION

• participation of local people at various stages during development of technology;

• modern attempt to revive quite established, traditional and indigenous cultural and institutional mechanisms for managing and conserving the natural environment (Croll

and Parkin 1992; Berkes et al. 1998).

AIMS

• Protection of natural resources.

• Sustainable utilization of resources.

PTD PROCESS

STAGE I

STAGE III

STAGE IV

STAGE II

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

KNOWLEDGE ANALYSIS AND

SHARING

LOCAL PEOPLE’S EXPERIMENTATION

MONITORING AND

EVALUATION

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

Selection of Research Sites

Conceptualization of Resource Problems with Stakeholders

KNOWLEDGE ANALYSIS AND

SHARING

Documentation of Locals’ System and Knowledge

Review of Scientific Findings and Knowledge

Sharing Knowledgeand

Empowering Locals

Analysis of Knowledge Gaps between Locals and Scientists

LOCALS’ EXPERIMENTATION

Selection of Locals as Researchers

Identification of Technology Options

Local Researchers’ Exposure Visit

Setting up a ResearchCommittee

Setting up Experiments at Research Sites

MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Self Monitoring and Evaluation by Local

Researchers

Self Monitoring and Evaluation

by Scientists

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation by Local Researchers and Scientists

Review of Results and Planning of Technology Intervention

Uptake of Technology by Locals Researchers

ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGY

Flow of Information from Local Researcher

Non-research Locals

State Representatives

ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGYFOR

MANAGEMENT OF NATURALRESOURCES FROM

LOCAL LEVEL

ADVANTAGES OF PTD IN FEDERAL SYSTEM

• Helps to combine traditional skills with scientists’ knowledge to develop an appropriate technology for sustainable management of natural resources;

• Ensures participation and empowerment of locals in the development process;

• Initiates economic growth by the sustainable use of natural resources.

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