PARTICIPATORY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (PTD) APPROACH IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

BACKGROUND
Economic development depends critically on natural resources that are fragile and being rapidly degraded; links between poverty, economic incentives, institutional weaknesses in government, and destruction of natural resources more visible than in other least developed countries; despite $4.5 billion of aid for projects affecting natural resources, resource degradation continues, and country's scope for improving living standards diminishes (World Bank report, 2008).

INTRODUCTION
participation of local people at various stages during development of technology;
modern attempt to revive quite established, traditional and indigenous cultural and institutional mechanisms for managing and conserving the natural environment (Croll and Parkin 1992; Berkes et al. 1998).

AIMS

Protection of natural resources.

Sustainable utilization of resources.

PTD PROCESS
PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION STAGE I

STAGE II

KNOWLEDGE ANALYSIS AND SHARING LOCAL PEOPLES EXPERIMENTATION

STAGE III

STAGE IV

MONITORING AND EVALUATION

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

Selection of Research Sites

Conceptualization of Resource Problems with Stakeholders

KNOWLEDGE ANALYSIS AND SHARING

Documentation of Locals System and Knowledge Review of Scientific Findings and Knowledge

Analysis of Knowledge Gaps between Locals and Scientists

Sharing Knowledge and Empowering Locals

LOCALS EXPERIMENTATION
Selection of Locals as Researchers Setting up a Research Committee Local Researchers Exposure Visit Identification of Technology Options

Setting up Experiments at Research Sites

MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Self Monitoring and Evaluation by Local Researchers Self Monitoring and Evaluation by Scientists

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation by Local Researchers and Scientists

Review of Results and Planning of Technology Intervention

Uptake of Technology by Locals Researchers

ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGY

Flow of Information from Local Researcher

Non-research Locals

ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES FROM LOCAL LEVEL

State Representatives

ADVANTAGES OF PTD IN FEDERAL SYSTEM

Helps to combine traditional skills with scientists knowledge to develop an appropriate technology for sustainable management of natural resources;

Ensures participation and empowerment of locals in the development process; Initiates economic growth by the sustainable use of natural resources.

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