Facilitating public participation in sustainable land management

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends that governments at the appropriate level, in collaboration with national organizations and with the support of regional and international organizations, should establish innovative procedures, programmes, projects and services that facilitate and encourage the active participation of those affected in the decision-making and implementation process, especially of groups that have, hitherto, often been excluded, such as women, youth, indigenous people and their communities and other local communities.

1. Fostering popular participation in development
2. Building capacity for land management

1. Caring for the land

1. Protecting public land
2. Managing land

1. Using innovative management techniques
2. Strengthening local organizations responsible for land management

1. Unsustainable
2. Underparticipation
3. Participation
4. Nonparticipatory
5. Mismanagement
6. Land