PREVIEW:
IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS

The appearance of important new publications is reported here, and the books are briefly described. We have requested review copies, which will be sent to experts for their opinions regarding the books' practical usefulness. The reviewers' comments will be published in a subsequent issue of the Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor.

Karl, Marilee (ed.) with Anita Anand, Floris Blankenberg, Albert van den Ham and Adrian Saldanha (1999) Measuring the immeasurable. Planning, monitoring and evaluation of networks. 244 pp. ISBN 81-90-1005-0-6. USD25 (plus mailing costs) for people in the North; USD20 (plus mailing costs) for Third World Individuals. Order directly from Women's Feature Service, 1, Nizamuddin East, New Delhi 110 - 013, India.
E-mail: WFSdelhi@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in
The need for a book like this was first expressed at the workshop Criteria for evaluation and monitoring of international women's networks, held in Wassenaar (the Netherlands) in May, 1993. The participants found that the evaluation methods commonly used are often inappropriate because they were designed to measure quantitative outputs, whereas women's networks often wish to bring about about qualitative changes in people's lives and society. The networks shared with each other the techniques for monitoring and evaluation which they had found useful. At the end of the workshop they resolved to further develop relevant methods.
The book builds on selected case studies presented in chapters focusing on networks and networking, planning, monitoring and evaluation, and using the results of monitoring and evaluation in international networks and networking organizations.

Niamir-Fuller, Maryam (ed.) (1999) Managing mobility in African rangelands: The legitimization of transhumance. 240 pp. ISBN 1 85339 473 4.GBP17.95; USD29.95.
Intermediate Technology Publications, 103-105 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4HH, UK.
Tel.: +44-171-436 9761.
Fax: +44-171-436 2013.
E-mail: orders@itpubs.org.uk
The publisher informs us that this publication shows how land tenure laws, decentralization policies, institutional capacity building, common property management, conflict resolution and participatory development can be made more responsive to the needs of those practising transhumance today, or pastoralists, for ecologically and economically sustainable development in arid Africa. The case studies focus on four key constraints to managed mobility: appropriate institutions at the local level; land use; land tenure and appropriate legislation; and conflict resolution. Although the case studies are from Africa, the issues and conclusions are just as relevant to pastoralism and common property management in other continents.
Dr Maryam Niamir-Fuller is a member of CIKARD, and adds: 'This book looks at how a traditional system of raising livestock, i.e., transhumance, that has been neglected and even deliberately destroyed in the past, is now seen to be not only ecologically friendly but even economically viable. The question remains: how do we reconcile existing land tenure and institutional arrangements that are geared to a sedentary, agricultural form of production, to the need of mobility and transhumance.

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