Abstract
SUMMARY Adoption of participatory forest management has initiated the trend of transfer of access, management and control of forest resources from government to committee based institutions. Hence, understanding the institutional arrangements that support implementation of co-management with local forest organisations (LFOs), is crucial for sustainable forest management. This study therefore, examined the potential and contribution of institutional arrangements to sustainable forest management under co-management arrangement in Mtakataka, Malawi. The results show that while co-management has created new multi-level local forest organisations in the communities, the potential of the organisations to contribute to sustainable forest management has been negatively affected by lack of appropriate power and legitimacy. There are clear and well defined boundaries for the forest resources and communities involved in co-management of the forest reserve. However, co-management is faced with issues such as low part...
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