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Expanding Community Conservation
Across Africa

This webinar series will showcase the diversity, innovation, and possibility of community conservation in Africa.

 

Webinar Series, Part 4 | Umoja

Starting out: growing community conservation in Uganda

Uganda’s conservancies are at an early and critical stage of development. Umoja is a new umbrella organization that is working to mobilize, strengthen, and empower community and private conservancies. Different from the Uganda government’s approach to community conservation, Umoja is promoting a bottom-up approach - where conservancies directly plan for, manage, and benefit from wildlife on their land. Learn from this new organization that is building the conservancy movement from scratch, including:

  • The evolution of conservancies in Uganda including the vision for the future

  • Navigating the waves of power dynamics and political interference in community conservation

  • The pain points and lessons from mobilizing communities and garnering political support to recognise and leverage the ecological and economic benefits of conservancies as a viable and sustainable land use option

ABOUT: Umoja Wildlife Conservancies Uganda (UWCU) is an umbrella organization that works to strengthen the capacity of community, private and group wildlife conservancies in Uganda. It plays a technical leadership and coordination role to ensure that conservancies adhere to standards, promote best practices, learn, and share information in support of a growing community conservation movement in Uganda.

Webinar Series, Part 3 | KAZA

5 countries, 6 organizations, 1 shared vision: How local organizations are contributing towards the KAZA TFCA vision

The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area is the second-largest landscape level conservation area in the world, spanning the international borders of five Southern Africa countries. It has the ambitious plan to sustainably manage the Kavango Zambezi ecosystem, its heritage and cultural resources based on best conservation and tourism models for the socio-economic wellbeing of the communities and other stakeholders through harmonization of policies, strategy and practice. It’s success depends upon a vast array of actors.

Maliasili will showcase how its partners working in all 5 KAZA countries are contributing towards KAZA’s ambitious plans. Learn about the organizations helping to communities across the KAZA landscape drive conservation efforts and reap the benefits from that work.

ACADIR, Angola | CLAWS - Botswana | Nambia Nature Foundation and IRDNC, Namibia | Wildlife Conservation Action (WCA), Zimbabwe | Zambia Carnivore Program (ZCP), Zambia

Webinar Series, Part 2 | ReGeCom

Going from policies to practice so communities can gain real, tangible benefits from conservation in Mozambique

Mozambique’s CBNRM story is complex, with many lessons to learn from. The potential for successful community conservation is on the horizon, especially now that there is favorable legislation in place as well as more emphasis on securing community land rights and some legal rights for communities to benefit from their natural resources. ReGeCom was established to navigate these challenges and find best practice approaches by bringing together an alliance of actors who are all seeking to bring communities in the center of the country's conservation mission.

ABOUT: ReGeCom is a national network organization in Mozambique. It was established to help harmonize and standardize community natural resource management efforts across the country. Its members include local organizations, academic institutions, and government agencies.

Webinar Series, Part 1, April 26th 2023 | Honeyguide

Proving community conservation can work across Tanzania - and a plan to expand it across the country

Honeyguide has a new and ambitious 5-year strategic plan. They want to take their successful community conservation model and experiences in northern Tanzania and scale them throughout country. Join this webinar to:

  • Learn how Honeyguide helped one community conservation area increase its revenue 980% in just three years.

  • Find out how they plan to work across 2,000,000 hectares of community lands across Tanzania.

  • Get a glimpse into the assessment and management tools they use to support the wildlife management areas they work with.

    ABOUT: Honeyguide’s mission is to make community-based conservation deliver in Tanzania. It brings sophisticated technical, management and business skills directly to local communities at key sites, designing and testing out a conservation model that can be replicated countrywide.