Around 20 years ago, Tanzania adopted the policy of participatory forest management (PFM) to create incentives for increasing villagers’ participation in forest management. The timing is thus fitting to reflect on the achievements and challenges of the PFM process so far. There have certainly...

This paper illustrates how an explicit focus on policy practitioner's use of narrative techniques in their policy arguments can be a way to identify when in the policy process risks of ‘good policies’ becoming ‘un-implementable’ emerge. A typology is developed identifying six specific...