ABSTRACT
At the 1992 Earth Summit, G7 countries, The Netherlands and Brazil launched the Pilot Programme to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest (PPG7), and the World Bank’s Rainforest Unit started to administer the fund, totalling $428 million, to consolidate PPG7 as a practical instrument to put Agenda 21 in place. Between 1995 and 2003, with an initial allocation of $27 million made through the technical assistance agreement between the German international cooperation and the Ministry of Environment of Brazil, community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) was vigorously promoted in Brazilian Amazonia in the form of Demonstration Projects – Type A (PDA), which principally encouraged local organisations and civil society to promote sustainable development by taking innovative and experimental approaches (Mancin 2001, see also Kolk 1996).
