The Governance and Natural Resources group aims to provide expertise from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, focusing on supporting governance processes at local, national and international levels – often related to the management of natural resources. The group's approach is based on participation, transparency, accountability, effectiveness, and respect for rights - recognising that good governance implies the active and responsible involvement of all relevant stakeholders from the public, private and civil society sectors.

Together, the group thus brings skills in a wide variety of topics including:

• community collaborative forest management
• community based land and water management
• rural livelihoods and rights over resources
• strengthening civil society
• decentralisation
• institution building
• municipal and communal development
• reform processes
• policy formulation and legislation
• multi-stakeholder processes

Group members

The group is composed of Jane Carter, Jean-Laurent Pfund, Chris Morger, Jacques Mérat, Stéphanie Roschi, Jean-Marie Samyn, Patrick Sieber, Hilmar Stetter and Claudia Greco.

Contact: Jane Carter (jane.carter@intercooperation.ch)