Documents

This Page contains, inter alia, memos, papers, presentations and reports, as produced by and for TFT. The documents utilize and present both raw data and analyzed data, and include both popularized and scientific works.

Most of the output is available for online browsing and downloading here, and also in Section Resources. The exception to this are internal documents that are available only in the password-protected Staff work area.

The output is organized in the following categories:

1. Presentations and papers,
2. Reports,
3. Memos, and
4. Various.

Presentations and papers

1. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. L'initiative vivre avec le désert. Presentation a N'ktt dans le cadre GTZ - ete 2001. Comment: Presentation at a workshop in Nouakchott, Mauritania, summer 2001. Prepared June 2001. [download]
2. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. Operation SAUFEGARDE DE LA MAURITANIE - SLAM. Durch den Hebel der Institutionalisering der Umweltkonventionen. Comment: Sommaire de l'idee. Presentee a un groupe des parlementaires mauritaniens, Nouakchott, Mauritania, summer 2001. Prepared June 2001. [download]
3. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner (with GTZ staff). 2001. Presentation at a workshop on TFT with prospective Mauretanian stakeholders, Nouakchott, 12(?) June 2001. Comment: An electronic version of this document has not yet been made available. [download]
4. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. Presentation of the refined TFT concept and its legal implications. Workshop presentation, World Bank, Washington D.C., USA, 13 September 2001. Comment: An electronic version of this document has not yet been made available. [download]
5. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. Mauritania - Initiative to sustain survival in the countryside and save the environment - Technology Fosters Tradition (TFT). Workshop presentation, World Bank, Washington D.C., USA, 13 September 2001. [download]
6. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. Making laws at the grassroots level. Mauritania Rural Environment. Technology Fosters Tradition. A World Bank/GTZ Initiative. Presented at the workshop 'Making laws at the grassroots level', Washington D.C., USA, 27 November 2001. [download]
7. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. A new legislation to save the Mauritanian environment. [download]
8. Soeftestad, Lars T. 2003. Deconstructing the park paradigm and factors determining the applicability of protected areas. Comment: Prepared May 2003. Contribution to the listserv of IUCN CEESP's Collaborative Management Working Group (CMWG), August 2003. [download]
9. Soeftestad, Lars T. and Hans-Werner Wabnitz. 2004. Knowledges and legal reform in the Sahel: Linking traditional and modern natural resource management legal regimes horizontally and vertically through use of ICTs. Presentation at the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) conference 'Bridging scales and epistemologies: Linking local knowledge with global science in multi-scale assessments', Alexandria, Egypt, 17-20 March 2004. Comments: The conference was originally scheduled to take place in Kunming, China, June 2003. [download: Abstract, Presentation]
10. Soeftestad, Lars T. and Hans-Werner Wabnitz. 2004. Sahel: Safeguarding marginal lands through recognition of local land use rights. Paper presented at the 10th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), Oaxaca, Mexico, 9-13 August 2004. [download: Abstract, Presentation]
11. Soeftestad, Lars T. with Geodatasenteret. 2004. Mauritania Technology Fosters Tradition (TFT). Presentation at a World Bank seminar, Washington D.C., USA, 23 September 2004. Comment: More information on this seminar is available on Page Seminars. Geodatasenteret is one of TFT's Collaborators. [download]

Reports

1. World Bank and GTZ. 2001. Proceedings of the workshop 'Making law at the grassroots level', Washington, D.C., USA, 27 November 2001. Comment: The workshop was arranged in connection with conceptualizing and preparing TFT. For a description of this workshop and the workshop program see heading 'Various' below, and also in Section Activities, Page Workshops. [download]

Memos

1. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. Dirk: Arbeitsaufgabe für Lakhsara and Brahim. Comment: Written June 2001 in connection with preparing the Nouakchott workshop in the Summer 2001. Available in the Staff work area.
2. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. Groupe de travail legislation environnmentale. Comment: Memo on the possible connections between the CBD/CDD project and the TFT. Prepared June 2001. [download]
3. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. Concept C : SLAM (jeudi). Comment: Background memo in connection with preparing the Nouakchott workshop in summer 2001. Prepared June 2001. [download]
4. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. Konzept Papier. Comment: Background memo in connection with preparing the Nouakchott workshop in the Summer 2001. Prepared June 2001. [download]
5. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. REUNION Jeudi 26, 2001 - experts N'ktt - environnement : critiques conception l'initiative («informel»). Comment: Brief summary of the Nouakchott workshop in the Summer 2001. Prepared June 2001. Dirk Thies prepared a longer and more detailed summary. [download]
6. Wabnitz, Hans-Werner. 2001. Outline: Initiative to reform the local awareness of environmental dependence in Mauritania and reforming the approach to, and the language of, the law. Comment: Prepared 24 July 2001. [download]
7. Kader, Isselmou Abdel. 2002. Participatory lawmaking - The example of the Mauritanian Code Pastoral. Comment: Summary, prepared June 2002 in connection with participation in a seminar in South Africa (the seminar was subsequently eventually). Available in the Staff work area.
8. Mint Dié, Lakhsara. 2002. Communication and value systems in traditional societies (Mauritania). Comment: Prepared June 2002. Summary of a presentation at a workshop in Washington D.C., USA, 27 November 2001. Prepared in connection with participation in a seminar in South Africa (the seminar was subsequently canceled). Available in the Staff work area.
9. Ngaido, Tidiane. 2002. Natural resource management: A function of environmental and ethnic specificities. Comment: Summary, prepared June 2002 in connection with participation in a seminar in South Africa (the seminar was subsequently canceled). Available in the Staff work area.

Various

1. Unknown. 1938. Comment: This document was written by a French colonial authority with the purpose of deciding which tribe owned a particular well in Sawana wetland, and at the same time determining the permanent borders between the respective zones of authority and influence of warring local tribes. Dated 6 July, and certified 30 May 1949 and again 22 December 1948. T. Wone, the author of the report 'Note historique relative au puits de Sawana (1945), Soudan Français, Cercle de Nioro' listed below, received this document from ?, the owner of Sawana and Oum Lelli wetlands. The copy received was very difficult to read, and required substantial work to be understood - and there are still some words that are illegible. Translated into English. [download: English, Français]
2. World Bank and GTZ. 2001. Description and program for the workshop 'Making law at the grassroots level', Washington D.C., USA, 27 November 2001. Comment: For the proceedings of this workshop see under heading 'Reports' above, or in Section Activities, Page Workshops. [download]
3. Soeftestad, Lars T. and Hans-Werner Wabnitz. 2002. West-Africa: New approaches to safeguard the environment through empowerment of local people. Proposal for a panel at the 9th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, June 2002. Comment: The proposal was not accepted. [download: English, Français]
4. Wane, Tijani. 2004. Note historique relative au puits de Sawana (1945), Soudan Français, Cercle de Nioro / Historical note concerning wells in Sawana (1945), in French Sudan, Nioro Circle. Comment: TFT commissioned this report to shed light on aspects of the history of one specific well in Sawana wetland (cf. the old colonial document listed above as "Unknown. 1938"). Prepared April 2004. The author is a local consultant in Aioun. Translated into English. [download: English, Français]