The Role of Local Inistitution in Forest Resource Management: The Case of Debre Llbanos Monastery Forest
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2011-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Since the forest resource of Ethiopia is under great treat. Government and non governmental
organizations are tlying to improve the condition. But on the ground their effort is not
successful. This study concerned about the role of institution in forest management. Because
currently institutions are serving as a solution for natural resource management problem in
general and forest in particular .For that matter the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is playing
greatest role in managing the ruminant forest resource of Ethiopia. However, this doesn 't
mean that the rules and regulations concerning forest management in the EOTC totally
respected by the sounding communities. Rather, there is a challenge in managing the
monastelY forest also. In order to investigate the role of Debre Libanos MonastelY in forest
management different tools of data collection like: structured questioner, focus group
discussion and key informant interview were held. Then the data was analyzed using SPSS
program. The result indicated that Debre Libanos Monastery played the greatest role in
managing its jorest resources. However, the result of the study reveled that there are good
and bad practices that enhance and hinder forest management by the monastery. Besides the
monastelY formulate rules concerning forest management and try to enforce it. Nevertheless,
as the jorest is a common pool resource characteristic of CPR excludability and
subtractability are problems in managing the monastery forest also. On the other hand one
of the allributes of the community such as user group size and hetroginty doesn't affect forest
management by Debre Libanos Monastery. On the other hand dependability of the local
community on forest resource is velY low. It was also found that 'Gizit' is a velY important
religious value that plays the main role in management of the monastelY forest. There fore,
these church forests didn't come to exist just by mere chance. Results indicated that it is by
the commitment of the church based on strong theological thoughts and a biblical basis. It
lVasfound that, most of the time, the local community respects churchforests, and considers
the church as a central institution. In general, ji-om the results, it was concluded that jorests
conserved by EOTC and its tradition provide an opportunity to establish conservation sites
for forest resources and distribution of seedlings of indigenous tree.
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Role of Local Institution