期刊名称：The Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (JSDA)
电子版ISSN：1520-5509
出版年度：2011
卷号：13
期号：7
出版社：Institute of Sustainable Development in Africa
摘要：The development of water resources in communal areas of Zimbabwe is now an integral part of the community-based natural resources management. The study sought to examine contentious political issues which characterize the politics of inclusion and exclusion in places with regard to claiming entitlements which resulted from the building of a small dam in Mhakwe Ward in Chimanimani District. A qualitative approach was used to select participants whereby interviewees were purposively selected on the criteria that they were once in the local dam committee, contributed labour during and after the construction of the dam and attended the meetings during the allocation of irrigated land. The study noted that although the government embraced the bottom-up approach to natural resources management and development in order to promote sustainable utilization of natural resources, the development of water resources in communal areas revealed that the success of such projects is beyond mere decentralization of power and authority to local institutions mainly because lack of respecting indigenous knowledge systems is an affront to sustainable development. It has been envisaged that local culture is a key component in attempts to improve sustainable livelihoods. The inequitable allocation of land revealed lack of respect for local dynamics of social and power relations in current sustainable rural development planning because the people who were displaced during the construction of the dam were resettled in the dryland instead of also being prioritised in the allocation of land in the irrigation project.
关键词：livelihood; dam; rural development; water; community natural resources management
