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English-French dictionary

Introduction

This Group contains a two-way English-French dictionary of key CBNRM and CBNRM-related terms. A Background on this Group is available, as are Descriptions of these languages. In most cases, where comments on a translation are necessary, they are listed in the first part of the dictionary.

Content

English to French

administration gestion. Comments: This is a problematic translation, as the French term also carries the meaning of 'management'. See 'gestion', 'management'
advocacy (1) plaidoyer, (2) assistance en conseil. Comments: The word 'plaidoyer', which is borrowed from legal terminology, is often used
animal ?
bird ?
CBNRM practitioner See: 'Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) practitioner'
CBNRM stakeholder See: 'Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) stakeholder'
Civil Society Organization (CSO) organisation de la sociétée civile
Co-Managed Protected Area (CMPA) Aire Protégée Co-gérée (gérée de façon participative). Comments: IUCN term
co-management cogestion
common property propriété commune
common property resource (1) ressources communes, (2) ressource en propriété commune, (3) ressources partagées
common property resource management gestion ressources communes
community communauté
community-based (1) communautaire, (2) sur base communautaire
Community-Based Coastal Resource Management (CBCRM) gestion communautaire des ressources côtières. Comments: This term was chosen because it contains the idea of a group strategy. Depending upon the location/level (e.g., village, region, zone) it may or may not be accepted
Community-Based Development (CBD) développement communautaire. Comments: The French term reflects only a status or situation of development, and misses the idea that the process is driven by the community itself. See 'community development'
Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) gestion communautaire des forêts. Comments: The two terms are identical in meaning
community-based group groupe communautaire
Community-Based Integrated Ecosystem Management (CBIEM) gestion communautaire et intégrée de l'écocystème. Comments: A particle is added in the middle of the French term, for purely aesthetical reasons
Community-Based Management (CBM) gestion communautaire. Comments: This is an acceptable translation
Community-Based Marine Resource Management (CBMRM) gestion communautaire des ressources marines
Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN). Comments: a number of other more or less related terms are in use among CBNRM stakeholders, both individuals and organizations/NGOs, among them: (1) Gestion à base communautaire des ressources naturelles, (2) Gestion communautaire des terroirs, (3) Gestion consensuelle de ressources naturelles, (4) Gestion locale par les communautés de base des ressources naturelles, (5) Gestion locale des ressources naturelles, (6) Gestion des ressources naturelles, (7) Gestion des ressources naturelles en partenariat avec les autorités communales, (8) Gestion des ressources naturelles par les communautés de base, (9) Gestion des terroirs, (10) Management des ressources naturelle sur base communautaire, (11) Réseau communal de gestion des ressources naturelles, (12) Réseau de gestion de ressources naturelles, and (13) Réseau pour la gestion communautaire des ressources naturelles. There is very little agreement on which of these terms most closely correspond to 'community-based natural resource management'. Likewise, the criteria for deciding this are also not agreed upon (see Page Dictionaries, Background). Based upon the advice of several CBNRM Net members, the above term has been chosen, partly because it represents a straightforward enlargement or extension of a universally accepted term, namely 'gestion des ressources naturelles' (and with an equally accepted abbreviation, namely 'GRN'), partly because it is a relatively simple term in construction, and partly because it provides for introducing an abbreviation that builds upon the 'GRN' form and corresponds nicely to 'CBNRM'
Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) practitioner agent de gestion communautaire des ressources naturelles. Comments: The French word 'agent' goes beyond the idea of 'user' carried by the English word. 'Agent' is much more involved compared with 'practitioner'
Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) stakeholder acteur de (la) gestion communautaire des ressources naturelles. Comments: 'Acteur' is preferred to 'actionnaire' which is used only in the financial domain
Community-Based Organization (CBO) organisation communautaire
Community-Based Resource Management (CBRM) Gestion communautaire de ressource. Comments: Acceptable translation
Community Conserved Area (CCA) Aire du Patrimonie Communautaire (aire de conservation communautaire). Comments: The term 'zone communautaire conservée' is also used. IUCN term
community development développement communautaire. Comments: See 'Community-Based Development' (CBD)
Community Development Association (CDA) association pour le développement communautaire
Community-Driven Development (CDD) développement induit par la communauté. Comments: The French term implies that development is initiated by the community or village, but not that the process is also lead by the community of village. A World Bank term
community resource management gestion des ressources de la communauté
consultation consultation
custom coutume
decentralization décentralisation
development ?
de facto de fait
de jure de droit
development theater théâtre pour le développement
devolution dévolution
Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) gestion 'ecosystémique' des pêcheries. Comments: A neologism is used instead of the appropriate words
empowerment renforcement de capacités. Comments: The French term is limited to giving emphasis to training
enforcement right (1) Droit d'appliquer, (2) droit de sanctionner
ethnicity 'ethnicité'. Comments: The French word is a sort of neologism
exclusion and inclusion rights droits d'exclusion et d'inclusion
fish ?
flower ?
governance gouvernance
indigenous (people) peuple indigène
indigenous identity identité indigène
institution institution
institutional arrangement arrangement institutionnel
Integrated Natural Resource(s) Management (INRM) gestion intégrée des ressources naturelles
Integrated Resources Management (IRM) gestion intégrée des ressources
insect ?
management gestion. Comments: This is a problematic translation, as the French term also carries the meaning of 'administration'. See "administration', 'gestion'
Natural Resource Management (NRM) Gestion des Ressources Naturelles (GRN). Comments: A French term that also is used, incorrectly, is 'gestion des terroirs'. See 'gestion des terroirs'
natural resource tenure ressources foncières naturelles
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Organisation Non Gouvernementale (ONG)
ownership ?
open access accè libre
participation participation
Participatory Action Research (PAR) recherche en action participative
participatory research recherche participative
private property propriété privée. Comments: The French term does not differentiate between the English words 'ownership' and 'property'
Private Voluntary Association (PVA) association d'origine privée
property right droit de propriété
property rule règle de propriété
resource ressource
right droit
rights to natural resources droit sur des ressources naturelles
rural community communauté rurale
security of tenure sécurité foncière
social analysis analyse sociale
social assessment evaluation sociale
social capital capital social
social movement mouvement social
space espace
stakeholder acteur
stakeholder analysis analyse d'acteur
state property propriété étatique
tenure foncier
tenure system système foncier
territory territoire
tradition tradition
transfer right droit de transférer
use right droit d'usage
village ?
village group(ing) grappe de villages
village land use management gestion des terroir villageois

French to English

accè libre open access
acteur stakeholder
acteur de (la) gestion communautaire des ressources naturelles Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) stakeholder
agent de gestion communautaire des ressources naturelles Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) practitioner
Aire du Patrimoine Communautaire (aire de conservation communautaire) Community Conserved Area (CCA)
Aire Protégée Co-gérée (gérée de façon participative) Co-Managed Protected Area (CMPA)
analyse d'acteur stakeholder analysis
analyse sociale social analysis
arrangement institutionnel institutional arrangement
association d'origine privée Private Voluntary Association (PVA)
association pour le développement communautaire Community Development Association (CDA)
capital social social capital
cogestion co-management
communauté community
communauté rurale rural community
consultation consultation
coutume custom
décentralisation decentralization
de droit de jure
de fait de facto
développement communautaire (1) Community-Based Development (CBD), (2) community development. Comments: The French term has two English translations, while only partly carrying the meaning of the first English term
développement induit par la communauté Community-Driven Development (CDD). Comments: World Bank term
dévolution devolution
droit right
droit d'appliquer enforcement right. Comments: See 'droit de sanctionner'
droit d'exclusion et d'inclusion exclusion and inclusion right
droit de propriété property right
droit de sanctionner enforcement right. Comments: See 'droit d'appliquer'
droit de transférer transfer right
droit sur des ressources naturelles right to natural resources
droit d'usage use right
espace space
evaluation sociale social assessment
'ethnicité' ethnicity
foncier tenure
gestion (1) administration, (2) management. Comments: This is a problematic term to translate. The English term 'management' could possibly also have been used, but 'gestion' belongs - or belonged traditionally - more in the public sector, and has the implication of administration-from-above. This meaning of 'gestion' thus does not carry the meaning of the English word 'management' which can be used with reference both to the public sector and civil society. The term 'gestion' may gradually be broadening its meaning to accommodate the meaning of the English 'management' (parallel to the English word 'management' being imported into French, as an anglicism), and it is in the latter sense that it is used here. See 'management
gestion à base communautaire des ressources naturelles See: 'Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN)'
gestion communautaire Community-Based Management (CBM)
gestion communautaire des forêts Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM)
gestion communautaire de ressource Community-Based Resource Management (CBRM)
gestion communautaire des ressources côtières Community-Based Coastal Resource Management (CBCRM)
gestion communautaire des ressources marines Community-Based Marine Resource management (CBMRM)
Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN) Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). Comments: See 'Gestion des Ressources Naturelles (GRN)'
gestion communautaire des terroirs See: 'Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN)'
gestion communautaire et intégrée de l'écocystème Community-Based Integrated Ecosystem Management (CBIEM)
gestion consensuelle de ressources naturelles See: 'Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN)'
gestion 'ecosystémique' des pêcheries Ecosystem-Based Fisheries management (EBFM)
gestion intégrée des ressources integrated resource management
gestion intégrée des ressources naturelles Integrated Natural Resource(s) Management (INRM)
gestion des ressources de la communauté community resource management
Gestion des Ressources Naturelles (GRN) Natural Resource Management (NRM). Comments: See 'Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN)'
gestion des ressources naturelles en partenariat avec les autorités communales See: 'Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN)'
gestion des ressources naturelles par les communautes de base See: 'Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN)'
gestion des terroirs ?. Comments: This is not the same as 'natural resource management', and a good translation is difficult. 'Terroir' has to be understood from an agricultural point of view, as something the generates an agricultural product. See 'Gestion des ressources Naturelles (GRN)'
gestion des terroir villageois village land use management
gestion local des ressources naturelles See: 'Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN)'
grappe de villages village group(ing)
groupe communautaire Community-Based Group (CBG)
identité indigène indigenous identity
institution institution
institutional arrangement arrangement institutionnel
mouvement social social movement
organisation communautaire Community-Based Organization (CBO)
organisation non gouvernementale (ONG) Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
organisation de la sociétée civile Civil Society Organization (CSO)
participation participation
peuple indigène indigenous (people)
plaidoyer / assistance en conseil advocacy
propriété commune common property
propriété étatique state property
propriété privée private property
recherche en action participative Participatory Action Research (PAR)
recherche participative participatory research
règle de propriété property rule
renforcement de capacités empowerment
réseau communal de gestion des ressources naturelles See: 'Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN)'
réseau pour la gestion communautaire des ressources naturelles See: 'Gestion Communautaire des Ressources Naturelles (CGRN)'
ressource resource
ressources communes common property resource. Comments: See 'ressource en propriété commune', 'ressources partagées'
ressources foncières naturelles natural resource tenure
ressources partagées common property resource. Comments: See 'ressources communes', 'ressource en propriété commune'
ressource en propriété commune common property resource. Comments: See 'ressources communes', 'ressources partagées
sécurité foncière security of tenure
système foncier tenure system
territoire territory
terroir soil. Comments: the traditional meaning is that of 'soil'. Although there may be efforts at broadening the meaning to include other natural resources the commonly accepted meaning is still 'soil'
théâtre pour le développement development theater
tradition tradition
zone communautaire conservée See: 'Aire du Patrimoine Communautaire (aire de conservation communautaire)'

Contributors and sources

Contributors

The following have contributed to this evolving dictionary:

Koffi O. Alinon - Centre de Recherches Concertées sur le Développement (LandNet-Togo); Lome, Togo (CBNRM Net member)
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend - Bugnaux, Switzerland (CBNRM Net member)
Fadi Doumani - Washington D.C., United States
Lakhsara Mint Die - GTZ; Nouakchott, Mauritania (CBNRM Net member)
Thomas Sommerfelt - GTZ; Nouakchott, Mauritania (CBNRM Net member)
Hans-Werner Wabnitz - World Bank; Washington D.C., United states (CBNRM Net member)

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