Checks and Balances: Environmental Program Evolutions During Democratic Transitions

A Case Study about USAID/Indonesia

Nancy Diamond, Ph.D.

Diamond Consulting

Table of Contents

Acronyms, Abbreviations and Glossary List

Executive Summary

  1. Introduction

  2. Changing Currency

  3. The Checks: Adaptive NRM2 Strategies

  4. The Balances: Civil Society Strategies

  5. Checks and Balances: Lessons Learned

Appendices

Publication Credits

Author: Nancy K. Diamond

BSP Director of Communications: Sheila Donoghue

BSP Director for Asia and Pacific: Janis Alcorn

BSP Executive Director: Judy Oglethorpe

Text Layout and Style Edit: Valerie Hickey

Please cite this publication as:

Diamond, Nancy K. Checks and Balances: Environmental Program Evolutions During Democratic Transitions. Washington, D.C.: Biodiversity Support Program. 2001.
This publication was made possible through support provided to BSP by the Global Bureau of USAID, under the terms of Cooperative Agreement Number DHR-A-00-88-00044-00. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID.

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