SESMAD

Decentralization and local capacity

Variable relationship:: According to a vast amount of research on local irrigation management transfers (Garces-Restrepo et al. 2007), decentralization (Centralization) is likely to fail if three conditions associated with local capacity are not fulfilled. These conditions include the lack of collective management experience at the local level (Past Collaboration), and the lack of enough finanancial and legal support from central goverments (External Support) in the intial stages of the decentralization process. A lack of managerial skills prevents users from being effective in self-organizing and from making appropriate decisions. External support is important in overcoming local managerial deficits.
Project: SESMAD
Sector(s)
Scientific Field
Component Type(s): Local Resource User Group, Group of Local Resource User Groups, Local Government, Group of Local Governments
Status: Public

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Variable	Role	Role Explanation	Value
Centralization	Proximate independent variable	The Degree of centralization decreases, as authority is transferred from a higher to a lower level of government	Highly to somewhat decentralized
External support	Moderating independent variable	Support from government of the decentralization process contributes to better transfer of knowledge and managerial skills and potentially overcome local deficits in those regards	No support
Past collaboration	Moderating independent variable	Past collaboration with regard to resource use facilitates that local user groups effectively fully take on management once this is transferred to them	Low
Commons condition trend	Final outcome	Local units without appropriate managerial skills are less likely to manage their resources appropriately than otherwise and run a higher risk of resource degradation	Worsened

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Theory	Relationship	Characterizing Variables
Centralized conservation	related
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM)	contradictory
Decentralization and elite capture	related
Decentralization and leakage	related
Past collaboration and social capital	related
Political decentralization and fit	contradictory

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Study	Relationship
Garces-Restrepo, Carlos , Douglas Vermillion, and Giovanni Muñoz. 2007. Irrigation management transfer: Worldwide efforts and results. In FAO Water Reports. Rome, Italy: Fod and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.	support

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