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WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME DWNP Botswana

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Page 1: WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME DWNP Botswana

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND

MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME

DWNP

Botswana

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PROGRAMMEOVERVIEW & STATUS

• DWNP Programme

• EDF Grant & GoB Funded

• Ngamiland & Ghanzi Districts

• Parts of Central & Kweneng

• Start-Up Phase

• Life of 4 years (2002 – 2006)

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RESULTS EXPECTEDFROM PROGRAMME

• Result 1: Management of three PA’s strengthened (CKGR, Moremi & Makgadikgadi)

• Result 2: Stakeholder co-operation increased• Result 3: Benefits to communities increased• Result 4: Decisions better informed by

research and monitoring• Result 5: DWNP strengthened

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Result 3

• Benefits to communities increased

• Community development grant from EDF

• I million Euros available

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CBNRM in BOTSWANA

• Characterized more by failures than successes

• Challenge is to learn from the past & face reality

• Have the courage to breakaway from past failed approaches

• Experiment wisely with fresh approaches from Community Projects Workshop

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Reasons for Failures

• The Concept of Community Managed Enterprise Projects Questionable

• Capacity Building Support Underestimated

• Project Implementation in some Cases Lacked Support

• Business Advisory Services Inadequate• Project Identification and Formulation

Support Inadequate

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Reasons for Failures(cont)

• Programme Scope and Coverage Over Ambitious

• Synergy Between CDF & CCF Insufficient• Management Structure for CDF Over-

Centralized• Roles and Task Division Among

Implementing Partners Lacks Clarity• Local Government Structures

Ignored/Bypassed

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Cornerstone Strategy

• Away from approach that CBOs should become entrepreneurs

• Towards approach where CBOs create an environment that encourages entrepreneurs to invest with confidence

• By providing infrastructure, security of tenure and a regulatory framework.

Ensure viability of business related projects by shifting emphasis:

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Implication of Emphasis Shift for Programme Support

Emphasis on capacity building to:

• Form & sustain representative and accountable CBOs

• Administer & manage CBO affairs • Negotiate with pvt. sector and Govt. • Develop infrastructure• Regulate & “tax” entrepreneurial activities

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Despite a strategic shift in emphasis the end objective of

CBNRM

viz the upliftment and empowerment of the

communities

remains as the central focus of the Program

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This central focus of the Program is to be achieved by ensuring that:

• All entrepreneurial initiatives meaningfully benefit the community

• Relationships with entrepreneurs is contracted with clearly defined responsibilities, monitoring and sanctioning mechanisms

• CBOs retain full control and responsibility of funding provided by the EDF

• Thus CBOs are the intermediary with the Programme

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Transparency and Equal Opportunity

All communities in geographic scope will be made fully aware of:

• The opportunity to apply for EDF funding• The procedures for:

– making application for such funding– requesting support for drafting their proposals– selecting the support of a service provider (e.g. an

NGO )• The policies and criteria by which their proposals

will be evaluated• The reasons why their proposals were unsuccessful

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Building Blocks: Planning

• Review work that has already been done

• Conduct needs analyses of communities expressing interest

• Land capability analyses• Wildlife management & tourism

development plans • Business plans and action plans for

administering & managing CBOs

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BuildingBlocks:Governance

• Legal, representative and accountable CBOs

• Capacity of committees and the electorate to execute democratic governance including:– the democratic appointment and replacement

of committee members – the capacity and confidence to hold

committee members accountable (watch dog)

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Building Blocks: Administration & Management

• Administer and manage CBOs according to the constitution (esp financial regulations and procedures)

• Procure and manage donor funding• Procure and manage technical assistance • Formulate policies, procedures & guidelines• Fairly, wisely and transparently effect benefit

distribution policies & procedures.

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Building Blocks: Negotiation Skills

To Confidently, Competently and Responsibly negotiate with:

• GoB for the rights to manage and utilise wildlife resources

• Private sector to:– Procure entrepreneurial expertise and investment in

viable projects– Establish viable and equitable “joint venture” lease – Renegotiate existing leases with “joint venture”

partners

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Building Blocks: Management

• Regulate the activities of “joint venture” partners as per agreements

• Monitoring and managing wildlife resources by actioning plans

• Monitoring and managing CBO business plans

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Support to Emerging Entrepreneurs

Provide assistance in:• Creating an awareness of business and

funding opportunities• Identifying wildlife related business

opportunities• Supporting the formulation of financing

proposals• Transferring business skills• Providing funds and providing ongoing

follow-up support

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Socio-economic Research & Monitoring

• Review and consolidate all the existing socio-economic

• Where necessary by conduct baseline studies

• Monitor socio-economic changes by conducting repeat surveys

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Planned Actions

• Review all past & present CBNRM projects in target areas

• • Develop an action plan for disseminating

information to communities• Develop “tool kit” for communicating criteria,

guidelines, formats, application forms, procedures, reporting formats, available support etc.

• Disseminate the information to local government & target communities

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Planned Actions(Cont)

• Prepare presentations, brochures posters

• Presentations at Kgotla meetings during July

• Hold annual workshops with stakeholders to learn lesson’s from successes & failures

• Meet regularly with TAC to road map the way ahead