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How institutions elude design: river basin management and sustainable livelihoods.
Cleaver, Frances D. Franks, Tom R.
Cleaver, Frances D.
Franks, Tom R.
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2005-12
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This paper challenges ideas that it is possible to `get the institutions right¿ in the management of natural resources. It engages with the literature and policy specifying `design principles¿ for robust institutions and uses data from a river basin management project in Usangu, Tanzania, to illustrate the complexity of institutional evolution. The paper draws on emerging `post-institutionalist¿ perspectives to reject over-formalised managerial approaches in favour of those that accept the dynamic nature of institutional formation, and accommodate a variety of partial and contingent solutions. Data from Usangu suggests that external `crafting¿ is inevitably problematic because, to a certain extent, institutions elude design.
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Cleaver, F.D. and Franks, T.R. (2005). How institutions elude design: river basin management and sustainable livelihoods. University of Bradford. Bradford Centre for International Development. BCID Research Paper, No. 12.
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