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Institutional configurations around forest reserves in Zimbabwe: the challenge of nested institutions for resource management

This paper examines how state institutions seek to change values placed on forest resources by forest users. Its key focus is on how the members of forest user groups –collectively and as individuals – influence structures and relations between the state and local people in their utilisation of forestry resources. It also examines how a variety of institutional configurations influence the development of co-management approaches and the implications of these for natural resource management. The paper highlights the importance of contexts, resource values, identity and social relations in gaining access and control over resources. These issues have implications beyond the Zimbabwean case studies from which the insights are drawn. The paper will attempt to profile institutions at multiple levels that provide challenges for co-management of resources not only in the case studies analysed, but also for other contexts around the world.