**2.3 Analyzing methods**

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This generic set was modified during three workshops from May to June 2010, at national (Xuan Mai University of Hanoi), province (Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry) and district level (Cho Chu, the Dinh Hoa District centre). The participants could

Three tools were used during these workshops: rankings, ratings and pairwise comparisons, following the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) application guidelines from CIFOR (CIFOR, 1999a), and its applications (Mendoza and Prabhu, 2000a; Mendoza and Prabhu, 2000b; Andrada II and Calderon, 2008; Gomontean et al., 2008; Ritchie et al., 2000). The

The communes and the villages for the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) were chosen following the decisional framework presented in Fig. 2: For each forest use type, two communes with territorial dominance of the concerned were chosen. Only those villages were chosen where the forest area is managed solely by households (Criterion 2.1) and belong exclusively to the forest function of interest (Criterion 2.2). Then, the two villages with the largest forest area were chosen for the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)

In each village, 15 participants were chosen for the PRA method, including five people representing the village organizations and 10 households owning forest. The five representative villagers included the head of the village as well as representatives of the old soldier union, the farmer association, the women association and the youth union. The 10 households per village were chosen by respecting equity in gender, age, well-being and

PRA tools were used at village level during half day group discussions. These discussions took place in the Fig. 2 mentioned villages, during July 2010. The tools included participatory mapping, open ended questions, semi-structured questionnaires and brain

storming sessions, leading to one set of ecological C&I per village.

A generic set was built up through the combination of already existing templates:

**2.2.1 Top-down approach** 

South-East Asia;

tropical forests;

**2.2.2 Bottom up approach** 

**Sampling design:** 

(Criterion 2.3).

educational level.

**Participatory methods and tools:** 

work towards a relevant C&I set; and

eliminate, modify and add elements to the set.

proceeding lead to one final C&I set per workshop.

had already demonstrated their effectiveness for the region.

Thailand;
