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The central thesis of the article is that  "sustainable forest management" including attention to human well being, cannot happen without increased flexibility for those working in the field. The many national programs purporting to encourage "community management" are plagued by problems some of which derive from too rigid adherence to pre-planned implementation procedures. The CIFOR's program presented in this document, focuses on improved collaboration among stakeholders in the forest, strengthened two-way communication links between communities, and group/social learning in pursuit of adaptive management, using participatory action research. Training in transformative learning; devolution of community level authority to smaller groups; use of multi-stakeholder workshops; multiple stakeholder visioning exercises; collaboration with NGOs; boundary demarcation as a means to facilitate coordination among communities; are some of the methods proposed by the present study.