Avaliação da participação comunitária na implementação das florestas comunitárias: caso da localidade de Maluana Sede

Abstract

Community forests are forests created by the community through the planting of trees of different different forest species or chosen according to the community's objectives. must be located in the community's geographical space. They are managed by the community, and are part of the presidential initiative "a leader, a new forest", which was publicised at national level was made public at the launch of the Environmental Education, Communication and Programme by His Excellency Armando Emílio Guebuza, then President of the Republic, in April 2009. and aims to preserve the environment in response to national and international efforts to adapt to climate change. efforts to adapt to climate change and combat poverty. A The aim of this monograph was to assess community participation in the community forests in Maluana. The implementation of this type of forest is a new experience for Mozambique and, 10 years after its implementation, it has become it is essential to understand the involvement of the Maluana community and other stakeholders in this process. the Maluana community and other stakeholders in this process, in order to design or improve strategies for involving participation in future gender programmes. In this survey Thirty-three household representatives from the entire locality of Maluana responded to the questionnaire. Maluana, using an exploratory approach which consisted of familiarising them with the community forestry programme in Maluana, which is a new experience for the local community. experience for the local community, and is therefore a new topic that deserves to be explored in depth to make it better known and more explicit to all those involved in the process (local communities, the state, etc.). in this process (local communities, the state, the local private sector and NGOs). For this study, snowball sampling was used. community leaders (as key informants) to indicate which households were willing to participate in this study. were willing to take part in this study. The families selected belonged to the group of those who were already living in Maluana in 2009, when the programme to create community forests in Mozambique was officially launched. programme in Mozambique, as mentioned above. The results presented and discussed in this paper clearly show that the implementation of the community forestry programme in Maluana was not properly publicised and debated among the local population, which meant that they were not interested in participating actively and voluntarily in this project, because they felt they had been excluded when it came to making decisions about their involvement in this process. This In this way, the community's participation in this programme was at the level of manipulation, as part of the community was invited by its leaders to take part in this project without being informed about the programme's objectives and the benefits they would gain from participating in the creation of this type of forest. The trees were planted in dry planting of the trees took place in dry weather and the forest conservation work, which consists of watering, monitoring and pruning the plants, was not carried out. This made it difficult for the new individuals (plants) to adapt to the new reality. For future initiatives of this kind, it is important that local communities and their representatives are involved in all phases of the project. involved in all stages of the project, from publicising it, preparing it, implementing it, evaluating it and monitoring it, implementation, evaluation and monitoring, in order to achieve the project's objectives.(TRADUÇAO NOSSA)