Development of a participatory action research approach for four agricultural carbon projects in East Africa

摘要: This paper describes an action research process undertaken with four African agricultural carbon projects—CARE’s Sustainable Agriculture in Changing Climate Initiative Western Kenya; World Vision’s Assisted Natural Regeneration Project Humbo, Ethiopia; Vi Agroforestry’s Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project; and ECOTRUST’s Trees for Global Benefits Uganda—to explore their institutional changes as project managers communities work to build local capacity management. It the protocol well by which it was collaboratively developed researchers managers. The also reports results of field each projects, will be used identify actions that they implement next step process. tools were generally successful gathering desired data, although modifications could allow future efforts target questions interviewees more effectively, include additional stakeholder groups such government agents service providers, develop local-level data collection analysis, focus attention on locallevel innovations landscape-level coordination. yielded diverse topics across projects are structured differently at different stages development. Common themes included need partnership development, enhanced training trainer programs, improvements sense community ownership stronger foundations collective throughout institutions.