Type of institution | Description and role | Country | |||
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Burkina F. | Mali | Niger | Senegal | ||
Customary authorities | Organization structure that reflects socio-cultural and economic diversity headed by authorities chosen through customary decision-making process and expected to act as custodians. They also intervene to prevent, mediate or manage conflicts including those related to natural resources use | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Village land management commissions | More formal governance institutions expected to contribute to reconcile the various, and sometimes contradictory land tenure regimes and eliminate tenure-related obstacles to socio-economic development. They play a significant role in natural resource management and even land administration. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Local conventions | More or less formalized negotiated agreement designed and formulated to regulate access and use of common natural resources. The defined rules and regulations are formulated through a process of stakeholder consultation and dialogue to address issues related to bushfire surveillance brigades, marking out livestock tracts, fixing periods for harvesting wild fruits or entering grazing lands, quotas for resource use, and protection of regenerating forest among others. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |