Participating or taking control? An experience in rural planning from Mali
Paying for the cost of local development is one of the major challenges facing Mali's Rural Councils. The only potential source of local income in the district of Bankass in north-eastern Mali is to levy charges on local people for the use of natural resources such as forests and rangelands that are under their jurisdiction. Any development of such plans should legally be done in a consultative way for it has implications for people's livelihoods.