Power Tools  logo

Site Map | IIED | Contact Us
Accessing 'public' information | Good, average, bad: law in action | Improving forest justice | Independent forest monitoring | Legal literacy camps | Local government accountability | People's law
Getting started | Community tradeoffs assessment | Family portraits | Stakeholder power analysis | Stakeholder influence mapping | The four Rs |
Writing style: political implications
Avante Consulta! Effective consultation | Better business: market chain workshops | Connecting communities to markets | Ethical appeal | Media and lobby tactics | Speaking for ourselves | Targeting livelihoods evidence | The pyramid
Associations for business partnerships | Mechanisms for organisation | Interactive radio drama | Organsing pitsawyers to engage
subglobal6 link | subglobal6 link | subglobal6 link | subglobal6 link | subglobal6 link | subglobal6 link | subglobal6 link
subglobal7 link | subglobal7 link | subglobal7 link | subglobal7 link | subglobal7 link | subglobal7 link | subglobal7 link
subglobal8 link | subglobal8 link | subglobal8 link | subglobal8 link | subglobal8 link | subglobal8 link | subglobal8 link

Associations for business partnerships


Associations for business partnerships is a tool for migrant or other marginalised forest dependent communities. It helps such marginalised natural resource smallholders to engage with, compete in, and benefit from market economies. This paper describes the approach in the context of the Brazilian Amazon frontier and presents evidence for its efficacy in overcoming marginalisation.

A summary card of this tool is available to download in four languages in PDF format:

English (47K) | French (47K) | Spanish (47K) | Portuguese (47K)

The complete tool is also available (PDF format):

English (275K, 23pp) | French (311K, 26pp) | Spanish (620K, 24pp) | Portuguese (289K, 25pp)

Please cite this tool as:

Merry, F. and Macqueen, D. 2005. Associations for business partnerships. Power tools series. Woods Hole Research Centre, Woods Hole, USA, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia , Belem, Brazil and International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK.

A case study from the Amazon provides further insight into local institution-building by new migrants:

Merry, F., Lina, E., Amacher, G., Almeida, O., Alves, A. and Dos Santos, M.R.G. (2004) Overcoming marginalization in the Brazilian Amazon through community association: Case studies of forests and fisheries. IPAM and IIED, London, UK. View PDF (694 K).

For further information:


IIED Logo Site Map | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | ©2004 International Institute for Environment and Development