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Scope and content
CPRNet aims to be a community of practice for its members, and promotes exchange of information on CPR management, including the relation between CPR regimes and other property rights regimes. CPRNet is located within a general intellectual and applied context consisting of a broad, interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach to natural resource management that is emerging within the World Bank Group as well as internationally, aimed at sustainable local-level natural resource management within the context of a transparent, supportive, and collaborative nation-state. This context emphasizes sustainable development, community-based management of natural resources, institutional reform, legal codification of relevant local institutions, and collaborative approaches - including partnerships - involving a wide range of stakeholders (see the section "Community-Based Natural Resource Management").
It follows that a major emphasis is placed on awareness-raising of World Bank Group staff and others, followed by supporting them in working with CPRs, both at the policy level and at the operational level. Furthermore, CPRNet promotes World Bank Group policy dialogues and investment operations aimed at supporting and facilitating community-based natural resource management.
The primary way in which this is done is through the CPRNet Newsletter, the CPRNet mailing lists, the CPRNet National Chapters, and the CPRNet Seminar Series. Of particular importance is the emphasis given to such exchange of information between outside practitioners and experts on the one hand and World Bank Group staff on the other hand, whether as members of CPRNet or not. The type of information circulated include (but are not necessarily restricted to) the following: