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D.
DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO USE THE PROTOCOL
KEY TOOLS
E-learning modules on relevant legal
frameworks
Assessing key opportunities and threats
Framework for research and action
Identifying key actors
Understanding relationships between key
actors
Multi-stakeholder role play
Forum theatre
Image theatre
Historical timeline
Trend line analysis
Community visioning
Activity monitoring table
The value of a single biocultural community protocol may lie primarily in its potential for internal selfaffirmation and in achieving localized change through direct engagement with local officials or other
actors. The potential to influence broader political and legal change may require the aggregation (though
not in a ‘standardizing’ way) of several protocols that generally address similar issues. For example,
multiple protocols calling for livestock keepers’ rights in India, Pakistan, and Kenya could serve as the
collective voice – still based on unique local contexts, identities, and priorities – of a broader social
movement with shared aims, which could exert sufficient pressure to gain state recognition. It is likely that
community protocols may only be able to influence concrete or structural change through coordinated
social mobilization and strategic challenges to the legal and political status quo.
“The value of biocultural community protocols lies at the aggregate level:
the more there are that speak about a particular issue in local contexts,
the stronger their collective voice can be.” ~ Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, League for Pastoral
Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development
Developing a Strategy
What are the overall aims or objectives of the protocol?
What are the legal provisions and frameworks (customary, national, regional, and
international) that can be used to achieve these aims?
How does the community intend to use the law and other methods such as social mobilization
to achieve these aims? What are the visions, specific strategies, and action plans?
What capacities and resources are required? What already exists within the community or
could be obtained with focused support?
What are the main opportunities and threats that may affect the process?
Who are the key actors or stakeholders, including relevant social movements? What are their
existing or potential relationships with the community?
How does the community intend to engage with these actors? What are the visions, specific
strategies, and action plans?
Who will contribute to realizing the strategy from within the community? Who will contribute
from outside the community?
How will you know that changes have occurred or aims achieved?