Learning to evaluate capacity development and collaborative learning about community-based natural resource management: lessons from Asia

This paper, part of the Social Sciences Working Paper Series, presents studies undertaken by nine community-based, natural resource management (CBNRM)-oriented organizations in China, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Mongolia. The partner organizations, representing three broad types: academic, regional network, and community based, were brought together by a 2006 initiative in an informal network to develop and pilot methods for evaluating capacity development in community-based natural resource management. Each of the nine teams produced a comprehensive report on which this working paper is based. In a comparative analysis, the working paper addresses questions across the nine studies such as: what are various stakeholders learning from capacity development, and how can CBNRM capacity development be effectively monitored and evaluated.