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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Local institutional reforms and resource access in rural Tanzania
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26. Decentralising power and natural resource control: responses and perspectives
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| Paper ID | 67 |
| Author(s) |
Pallotti, Arrigo
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No paper submitted
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| Abstract | Within the context of the growing academic interest for the relationships between rural livelihoods, decentralisation and participatory development, the paper investigates the complex relationships between the reform of local government institutions and resource access in the Iringa region of Tanzania. After critically reviewing the aims, content and early outcomes of Tanzania’s Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP), the paper considers the implications of the citizenship model the LGRP tries to promote at the local level on people’s production and reproduction strategies and their interaction with local government authorities, with a particular focus on land access strategies. The paper concludes that the simultaneous implementation of the LGRP and the land tenure reform is part of a broader effort to promote a market model of citizenship at the local level in Tanzania, whose effects on local democracy and stability must be carefully analysed. |
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