ELDIS has alerted us to A review of participatory tools for natural resource management by authors from the University of Zimbabwe, the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University and CIFOR and published part of a special feature, Navigating Trade-offs: Working for Conservation and Development Outcomes, in the open access journal Ecology and Society in 2007. The article...
Nineteen University of Botswana undergraduate students completed their work for HOORC's Winter Course this week, wrapping up their fieldwork assignments with presentations of the results of their research. This year's work included economics studies from Mbakile P. Seabe - Household attitudes and willingness to pay for the conservation of Lake Ngami, Botswana -- Kaelo Galeage - The impact of...
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Community Based Natural Resource Management
HOORC's Library had a visit today from Ms Elizabeth Rihoy, of Resource Africa, Nairobi, who is in Botswana carrying out research about governance of community based natural resource management, and meeting with HOORC reseachers Joseph Mbaiwa and Lapolang Magole. One of Ms Rihoy's study sites is the Okavango Community Trust in Seronga. She has recently published, with Brian Maguranyanga, a...
ELDIS recently alerted us to a new publication from the FAO's Livelihood Support Programme (LSP), Negotiation and mediation techniques for natural resource management: case studies and lessons learned. The report, part of a series of training materials on natural resource conflict management, seeks to support sustainable livelihoods in Africa and elsewhere through two case studies -- of conflict...
ELDIS has alerted us to Community-Based Ecological Monitoring: a Manual for Practitioners, published by the Southern Alliance for Indigenous Resources (SAFIRE). The manual focuses on a participatory community-based approach, where monitoring activities are carried out by the resource users themselves. Its two parts provide an overview of ecological monitoring and step-by-step instructions for...
AllAfrica.com has recently featured news from the Kavango region in Namibia. Signing of a concession agreement between the Ministry of Environment and Tourism on one hand and the Gciriku Traditional Authority, George Mukoya and Muduva Nyangana conservancies on the other, will pave the way for the development of tourism facilities in the Khaudum National Park. This is the first such agreement to...
Invisible upkeep : local institutions and the democratisation of development in Botswana : a case study of village development committees in Ngamiland by HOORC researcher Barbara Ngwenya, looks at the influence of government institutions on local communities' use of natural resources in Botswana in the context of Village Development Committees' contribution to democratisation of development...
Three new publications relevant to the Okavango community from the Worldwide Fund for Wildlife (WWF) are available for downloading from the WWF web site:The Global Environment Facility and Payment for Environmental Services is a review of current activities and recommendations for future PES support by GEF and FAO programmes.
A Preliminary Assessment of the Natural Resources Management...
The published version of the Government of Botswana's Community based natural resources management policy is now available in HOORC's Library. Approved by Parliament in 2007, the policy is intended to safeguard the interest of communities in natural resources management, and to attract investment in natral resources based enterprises. The policy states that management practices of community...
HOORC's Governance Unit will host the first CROSCOG workshop which will be focusing on theme one of the project: “Knowledge, Power, Economic Change and the Commons Practices”. The workshop, to be held from the 28th -30th November at Sedia Hotel, Maun, Botswana, will bring together the project partners countries of Botswana, Malawi, South Africa and Zambia as well as the European partners from...
HOORC's Library had a visit today from team members of the Comic Relief / Open Channels sponsored Kuru project, Land and Livelihood Security. The project is producing community resource maps to support CBNRM activities in Ngamiland communities. Bill Kemp and Valter Blasovik from Strata 360, Montreal, Canada, who have worked on community mapping with First Nations communities in the Canadian...
HOORC's Library has received a visit this week from Rachel Faye Giraudo, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley currently conducting dissertation fieldwork at the Tsodilo Hills as a Fulbright Fellow to Botswana. Rachel is studying issues of cultural heritage, tourism, and development through the implementation of the Tsodilo Integrated Management Plan (TIMP)...
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLV, no. 68 12 October 2007
Republic of Botswana: addendum: lease of lodge sites in the Chobe National Park, Makgadikgadi/Nxai Pans National Park and Central Kalahari Game Reserve
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Republic of Botswana: tender: consultancy for development of management plan for the Kwaii Conservation Trust at Khwee Settlement in Boteti area for the Department of...
IUCN CBNRM Support Programme Occasional Paper number 16, The impact of HIV/AIDS in CBNRM in Botswana : the case of Ngamiland, written by HOORC researchers B.N. Ngwenya and O.T. Thakadu, with associate F.C. Potts, describes how Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) programmes in Ngamiland have attempted to reduce the problems associated with HIV/AIDS and offers policy advice and...
The August 2007 issue of the magazine of the Kalahari Conservation Society (KCS) has arrived in HOORC's Library. The issue, celebrating KCS' 25th anniversary, includes articles about Dr Michael Chase's work with the home ranges and transboundary movements of elephants in the lower Kwando river basin, the proposed KCS Zambezi River Basin project, the status of Operation Roaming Rhino, the...
Mapping for change : practice, technologies and communication , CD-ROM version of number 54 in the Participatory Learning and Action series, contains multilingual PDF versions of the theme articles from the Mapping for Change International Conference on Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication. The CD also includes other key resources (mainly in English), such as DVD...
AllAfrica.com reports from the Botswana newspaper Mmegi about the Botswana debate of the Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) policy presented to Parliament last week by the Minister of Environment, Wildlife and...
Occasional paper Number 15 in the IUCN's CBNRM Support Programme series, Natural Resources Management and People, is a collection of papers that focus on community based natural resource management programmes in northern Botswana. HOORC researcher O.T. Thakadu co-edited the volume with B. Schuster, and HOORC tourism specialist Joseph Mbaiwa authored one of the chapters, Local Community...
USAID’s FRAME web site, an online portal that provides access to the development organization’s natural resource management project documentation, is becoming a useful resource for links to work about CBNRM, poverty reduction and livelihoods. In addition to project documents, accessible by region and country, the site offers a special topic newsletter, partner pages, and...
Community-based resource management, rural livelihoods, and environmental sustainability, prepared for the IUCN South Africa office and USAID FRAME programme, by Jaap Arntzen, Baleseng Buzwani, Tshepo Setlhogile, and HOORC researchers Professor D. L. Kgathi, and M. R. Motsholapheko, reports experience in CBNRM in Botswana through two case studies. Sankuyo Tshwaragano Management Trust’s...
Communities and conservation : histories and politics of community-based natural resource management offers analysis of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in the context of both evironmental management and social justice issues. The book uses examples and experiences from projects from Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the Gambia, among others, to discuss the use of institutional...
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Today at HOORC, Research Fellow Dr Rachel Demotts presented her study of craftswomen from the Caprivi region of Namibia, Gendered Nature? Women’s Participation in Conservancies. Dr Demotts' study revealed that basketmaking and other crafts, mainly the province of women in Caprivi, provide significant benefits beyond the purely economic, increasing access to...
The draft final report of the tourism component of the Okavango Delta Management Plan project is now in HOORC's library collection. The report, prepared for the North West District Council, proposes detailed development plans for Tourism Development Areas, an analysis of the limits of acceptable change, an action plan for Community Based Natural Resource Management projects, and a monitoring...
Two new IUCN titles in HOORC's library offer guidance in the sustainable use and management of forest resources. Forests in landscapes : ecosystem approaches to sustainability uses the Convention on Biodiversity's principles of the ecosystem approach to compare local forest management projects, pointing out that these local solutions are often well ahead of international rhetoric in relation to...
Practical Tools for Community Conservation in Southern Africa, number 55 in the International International Institute for Environment and Development's Participatory Planning and Action series, is a compilation of experience in developing community based tourism, environmental monitoring and wildlife management. Guest editors Brian Child and Brian Jones have included useful descriptions of...