research to policy: capacity building for conservation through poverty alleviation
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Research to Policy:Capacity Building for Conservation Through
Poverty Alleviation
Research to Policy WorkshopSeptember 17-18 2013, Metropole-
Kampala, Uganda
Background information
• Ranger Based Monitoring Program (RBMP)has a good database on ‘where and what’ for illegal activities
• The ‘who and why’ remain unanswered
• Conservation Through Poverty Alleviation (CTPA) project launched the collection of ‘fresh arrest data’ from August 2012 to document and understand the profiles and motivations of Unauthorised Resource Users (URUs)
Background Information
• Fresh arrests from August 2012 to February 2013 were interviewed (n=12)
• Collected and analyzed the available socioeconomic data from August 2012 to July 2013 (n=39)
• Total number by July 2013 (n=39)
• These are not the only URU but those arrested by UWA rangers
• There are minor differences with records of law enforcement
Key profile on the location of arrest and residence of fresh arrested individuals
• 62% (n=15) places of illegal activity are places of arrest. This comprised of 69% (n=27) of the arrested
• 38% (n= 9) places of illegal activity were different from arrest areas. This comprised of 31% (n=12) of the arrested
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Key contd…
• 15% (n=6) are ARUs
• 36% (n=14) of arrests live in Multiple Use Programme (MUP) parishes
• 64% (n=25) of arrests live in non-MUP parishes
MUP parishes Vs Non-MUP parishes
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Distance of fresh arrest residence from the park
• Frontier parishes (n=22)
• Non Frontier parishes (n=2)
• DRC (n=13)
• Tourists (n=02)
Distance of fresh arrest residence from the park
• Arrests from villages far from the park undertake big forest products
• Arrests from frontier parishes undertake minor forest products such as firewood, salt sticks and bean stakes
Frontier Villages Vs Others
Frontier Villages
Not Frontier-Uganda
Foreigners
Elevation of fresh arrest data since August 2012
Fresh arrests by Rangers since August 2012
Key profiles of fresh arrests contd…
Ethnicity of fresh arrests
• Batwa (n=0)
• Bakiga (n=24)
• Bafumbira (n=0)
• Other locals (n=0)
• Congolese (n=13)
• Foreign tourists (n=2)
Ethnicity %s
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Other key profile of fresh arrested individuals
Sex
• All the arrested were males
Age
• Youth (n=3)
• Adult (n=36)
Position in society
• Majority (n=9) have no position in society
Other key profile contd…• All had knowledge on ICD mostly MUP and
crop raiding project.
• All had attended park meetings apart from one
• Farming is the main source of livelihood especially subsistence farming
• Were averagely ranked in ‘somewhat bad’ not ‘worst members’ of the community .So what drives them?
• Majority URUs have big families of either more than one wife or many children
• Can we continue this social monitoring of resource use?
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