Publication

This paper examines the experience and lessons of Tanzania's Mama Misitu Campaign for the promotion of better forest governance. Social accountability can improve forest governance where it changes cost-benefit perceptions on illegal logging. But civil society communications and the use of evidence must be politically aware and targeted to build strategic alliances with a range of actors from public and private spheres. Attention must also be paid to the enabling (and empowering) potential of the relevant governance framework – such as Participatory Forest Management in Tanzania.