Workplan

CROSCOG - Cross Sectoral Commons Governance in Southern Africa

Workplan

This page offers an overview of the work involved in CROSCOG

CROSCOG runs over 24 months from 1 March 2007 to 28 February 2009. The project has three major phases:

The first phase develops and presents at a workshop a series of 10 (or more) papers, one for each of the cases related to Theme One: Knowledge, Power, Economic Transformation and Existing Commons Practices.
The second phase develops and presents at a workshop a series of 10 (or more) papers, one for each of the cases related to Theme Two: Building on Existing Practices to Achieve Effective Governance across Extensive Scales.
The third phase disseminates through targeted campaigns the results of the projects to a broad audience of international researchers and activists, local policy makers, and local community members.

The sites and cases that are the backbone of CROSCOG are shown in the table beneath. Three sites have more than one case because two relevant ecosystems are found within the same area. These sites will be particularly important because they will be places where households and communities can be found that exploit two different kinds of commons.

Site	Case	Country
Okavango Delta	Floodplain	Botswana
Okavango Delta	GSFP*	Botswana
Chilwa	Coastal	Malawi
Chilwa	Floodplain	Malawi
Kariba	Coastal	Zambia
Kariba	GSFP*
Mweru	Coastal
Kafue	Floodplain
South Africa	Coastal	South Africa
Transkei	GSFP*	South Africa

* Grasslands, Savannas and Forest Patches

CROSCOG is organized into seven Work Packages. Work Package 1 deals with the overall coordination of the project and handles the website, brochure, international dissemination activities and reports to the Commission.

Work Packages 2 through 4 are the Eco-system Work Packages. These WP teams are directly responsible for the production of the case papers for the workshops and further dissemination.

Work Packages 5 and 6 are the Theme Work Packages. These WP teams are responsible for the development of the cross-cutting themes through ongoing interaction with the case teams. This will be done by distributing information of interest, including internal theme discussion papers, and visiting case study sites. They are also responsible for the practical organization of the workshops, the invitation of special speakers, involvement of local stakeholders in the workshops. Finally the theme discussion papers after the workshops will be rewritten into high quality articles for submission to peer reviewed journals.

Work Package 7 is the Local Dissemination Work Package. This WP team is responsible for the targeted dissemination of project results to two audiences. The first is managers and policy makers in southern Africa who will be the audience of the policy brief. The second is local community members who will be the audience of the media outreach through radio broadcasts and newspaper stories that carry the messages produced by the project and information sheets for local community conservation activists.

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