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Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance; 900786.
Management Efficiency Tools
The project seeks to address the improvement of management and governance of priority protected areas by addressing existing constraints and, on the other hand, to support local community initiatives aimed at improving the livelihoods of local people, while contributing effectively to the management of protected areas. The main results expected during the implementation of the project are to strengthen the system of protection and surveillance of protected areas, improved governance of natural resources in the environment of the protected area and improved sustainability of community livelihoods.
During the period of execution of the project, activities will be carried out to increase the efficiency of the management, through trainings of the protected areas, construction and maintenance of the infrastructure of protection and surveillance, planning and surveillance, training to personnel and delivery of protection and surveillance equipment.
Additionally, for the development of the municipalities, a Committee of participation will be established for the surveillance of the management plan and a Fund of Conservation and Ecodevelopment will be designed and installed for the financial sustainability of the protected area. It is expected to incorporate good agricultural practices in the environment of the protected Area. Finally, it is expected to make a participatory diagnosis of the vulnerability to the risk of flooding of the residents and to support the sustainable productive activities.
The project will provide a better understanding of the dynamics of vulnerable ecosystems and initiate ecological restoration actions, allowing the dynamics and populations of crocodiles and iguanas to be better-known, protected and suitable breeding sites to be provided. The project will also train personnel for protection and surveillance, visitor services and supervision of the species. The protected area will have the necessary equipment for its adequate management. On the other hand, the information for the access, knowledge and orientation of the visitors and the community will be improved allowing that the limits of the zone are visible on the land mainly in the zones of greater human presence or of agricultural activities. On the other hand, through training and awareness workshops the population will gain knowledge about climate change, the protected area and alternative livelihoods and will seek to improve solid waste management at the municipal level, reducing its carryover into water bodies and the community.
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Project Lead
National Fund for the Environment and Natural Resources, Sur Futuro Foundation and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources
Parc Naturel Communautaire de la Vallée du Sitatunga (PNCVS)
Integrated Management Effectiveness Tool (IMET)
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CREDIT-ONG
Togodo-Nord, 95398; Togodo-Sud, 2341.
Améliorer la gestion et la gouvernance des aires protégées prioritaires en répondant aux limitations existantes.
Le projet répond au besoin prioritaire de manque matériels et de capacité des agents. Ainsi, la mise en œuvre du projet permettra le renforcement de la surveillance à travers les équipements en matériel de locomotion et de monitoring et la formation des gestionnaires en outils d’évaluation de l’efficacité de gestion des aires protégées (METT, IMET).
Action1 : Equipement des brigades de la surveillance du complexe de Togodo en matériels de locomotion et de GPS.
Action 2 : Formation des gestionnaires et autres parties prenantes intervenant dans la gestion des aires protégées.
L’acquisition du véhicule et de GPS va énormément faciliter renforcer à la surveillance, les activités écotouristiques, la recherche, les travaux d’inventaires et de suivi de la biodiversité. Avec ce matériel, les agents de la brigade de surveillance seront plus incités à couvrir une grande partie de la réserve. La formation des parties prenantes et des conservateurs en outils d’évaluation de l’efficacité de gestion des aires protégées, notamment l’IMET, permettra à la direction des ressources forestières et les gestionnaires des aires protégées de disposer des données actualisées sur la gestion des aires protégées en vue d’aider les décideurs à la prise de décisions et de partager des information avec l’observatoire régional pour la biodiversité et la gestion des aires protégées et le RIS.
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Direction des ressources forestières; ministère de l’environnement, du développement durable et de la protection de la nature
Chutes de Karera Nature Monument, 9168; Failles de Nyakazu Nature Monument, 9167.
Integrated Management Effectiveness Tool (IMET)
Le projet va améliorer la qualité des infrastructures d’accueil des visiteurs. Il va améliorer également la qualité d’accueil et de guidage des visiteurs à travers la formation des guides touristiques communautaires. Le projet impliquera les communautés locales dans la gestion des activités écotouristiques. Les femmes formées à l’art culinaire contribueront nettement à l’amélioration de l’image des chutes et de failles par la qualité de leur service à proposer des mets variés et bien préparés aux visiteurs. C’est une grande innovation car ce service n’a jamais été rendu sur les deux sites. De même, le projet renforcera les capacités des jeunes à pouvoir valoriser la tradition du terroir en proposant aux visiteurs des objets d’arts fabriqués sur place. Toutes ces initiatives en faveur des communautés locales leur permettront de profiter directement des retombées financières générées par l’affluence des visiteurs.
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Association Protection des Ressources Naturelles pour le Bien-Etre de la Population au Burundi (APRN/BEPB); ASBL : Conservation et Communauté de Changement (3 C)
Mangabe-Ranomena-Sahasarotra National Park, 555697885.
This project addresses two the BIOPAMA Action Component objectives:
This project will address two priority needs of the protected area:
Updating the management plan
To write up and validate the management plan, Madagasikara Voakajy will organize three workshops. The first one will involve MV and MEDD team members and will focus on writing up the management plan based on the existing data and the new template provided by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Madagascar. The second workshop will present and validate the management plan at the regional level. The third workshop will present and validate the management plan at the national level. The final version of the management plan will be shared with all stakeholders in the relevant format and language.
Improving the infrastructure, equipment and facilities
Madagasikara Voakajy will acquire two new motorbikes during the first quarter of the project. This will allow the team to intervene more rapidly in the field. The grantee will build and equip an information centre in three villages: Andranomandry, Avolo and Mangabe, and run monthly awareness campaigns at these centres. It is expected that community members attend the campaigns and visit the centre regularly. Tent shelters will be established in Mangabe to welcome tourists.
As a direct result of this project, Madagasikara Voakajy expects to:
On the long term, this project will contribute to reducing deforestation in Mangabe Protected Area, increasing community members’ knowledge and skills to manage the protected area, and improve their livelihoods through efficient agricultural techniques.
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Madagasikara Voakajy
Mondrain Reserve
There are two main activities for this project:
1. The development of a management plan, which will provide a clear vision for the future of the reserve and a how to prioritise activities, in a time-bound and costed manner. The plan will be developed through a stakeholder site visit to the Mondrain reserve to establish the broad management objectives, an updated METT analysis (which will feed into the development of the management plan) and two stakeholder workshops to further gather views of field staff, horticulturists, managers, from MWF and its partners in government, private sector, academia etc. Views will be collated and draft circulated for discussion and finalisation during the workshops, in a stepwise process.
2. The purchase of a dedicated 4×4 vehicle, will improve access to the reserve and improve the management of the reserve for managers, scientists, community members and other stakeholders, help in conducting small group visits by students and tourists (which may be expanded in the future), improve monitoring and evaluation, increase research and provide transportation for labourers working in the reserve.
The development of management plan will increase the effectiveness of the management of the reserve as we are using an inclusive and participatory approach (with inputs from academia, local communities, local experts and other organization working on reserve management/plant conservation, government department working on biodiversity conservation etc.) By having ideas and contributions from different stakeholders, it brings together new insights, new findings and new information and it allows us to develop a plan that is based on sound science, good practices but is also pragmatic and easier to implement. This will ultimately benefit the reserve and help safeguard the unique habitat and threatened species found there. The management plan will be the blue print that will help prioritize actions and guide future work in the reserve. The vehicle is an important asset that will allow us, over the years to come, to continue implement actions towards the protection of the reserve by providing access to the reserve to key staff, students, researchers and visitors.
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Mauritian Wildlife Foundation
Mumbwa GMA, 4094; Namwala GMA, 4093; Mafunta GMA, 555626090; Chiawa GMA, 62095; Rufunsa GMA, 303859; Luano GMA, 4095.
Game management areas (GMAs) are protected areas in communally owned lands that make up more than 70% of the total protected area in Zambia. Overall governance of GMAs has been in decline, reflected in an increased rate of habitat loss, land disputes and declining wildlife populations. This has serious consequences for conservation in Zambia. The project will address tackle key governance challenges at GMAs including issues related to benefit sharing, accountability, rights recognition, participation in decision-making, gender equality, transparency and information sharing, and law enforcement.
The project will improve governance of the six target protected areas and is designed to have a wider impact on governance of protected areas within Zambia as well as across the eastern and southern Africa region that are using a CBNRM approach. Improved governance will lead to more effective and equitable management of the protected area and associated benefit flows to local communities which in turn will enhance local livelihoods and well-being and improve the health of the ecosystem and its wildlife populations. In some respects, the project may deliver more for well-being than typical alternative livelihood interventions since governance interventions contribute to non-material aspects of human well-being, e.g., dignity, voice, security, social capital, and generally cost less than alternative livelihood interventions.
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International Institute for Environment and Development; Zambia Community-Based Natural Resource Management Forum
Réserve Naturelle Communautaire de Palmarin, 555629214; Aire Marine Protégée de Gandoule, Parc National du Delta du Saloum, 866; Aire Marine Protégée de Saint-Louis, 352704; Parc National des Oiseaux du Djoudj, 867; Parc National de la Langue de Barbarie, 869.
Integrated Management Effectiveness Tool (IMET)
Le projet inclue les activités suivantes:
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Directions des parcs nationaux (DPN); Direction des Aires Marines Communautaires Protégées (DAMCP)
Ziwa wildlife sanctuary.
Covid-19 has hit Rhino Fund Uganda (RFU) hard, resulting in income loss of 93% overnight, representing urgent and serious threats to ranger and community livelihoods, which are exacerbated by other socio-economic impacts. Should RFU fail, there is no other NGO, or other organisation, in Uganda with the relevant expertise or manpower to take on the sanctuary.
Activities include reinstatement of a Biodiversity Management Program (BMP) that was suspended due to Covid19, to improve the habitat for white rhinos by bush clearing and invasive species management allowing supressed grasses to flourish. The success of the program to date shows that it will enable other wildlife and bird species to utilise the improved habitat thereby increasing biodiversity.
The Biodiversity Improvement Program will employ and equip local manual labour, trained Rhino Fund Uganda rangers and a Uganda graduate Biodiversity Officer, all who, in turn, will add to the economic prospects of the local community due to their improved purchasing power.
A Revolving Goat Scheme (RGS) will bring new, income earning opportunities to women in the local community, who will have the opportunity to raise goats for food or sale. In either case, this will help alleviate malnutrition and enhance the community economy.
This project will improve community livelihoods via employment and micro-enterprise, bicycle and goat donations, firewood and cattle-grazing access, and combatting malnutrition, excessive charcoal production and over-grazing in community lands. It will improve biodiversity and habitat within the Sanctuary, optimizing the carrying capacity for white rhinos, enabling calving rates to be maintained. It will ensure social dynamics that reduces inter-species fighting and thereby injury or death of the endangered rhinos. Management effectiveness in anti-poaching and tourism will be maximised.
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Rhino Fund Uganda
Kambui Hills and Extensions Forest Reserve 303925; Kambui South Forest Reserve 29972
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan https://www.cbd.int/doc/world/sl/sl-nbsap-v2-en.pdf
The priority need of the project is to deliver a well-managed forest reserve, clearly demarcated and highly visible and known and appreciated by local communities, The reserve should help conserve ecosystems and maintain a rich biodiversity. It should provide ecosystem services for both humans and biodiversity and help to combat climate change. The Kambui Hills Forest Reserve forest should be co-managed by the government and the communities.
Several years of neglect in terms of management has resulted in increased illegal and damaging human activities within the reserve. Large areas have been encroached upon and degraded through activities like chain saw logging, charcoal harvesting, mining, slash and burn farming and settlement development and hunting. The unclear boundary creates ambiguity as to where the reserve ends and where the salvage lands begin.
To reveres this situation a robust awareness campaign about the reserve, its purpose and its usefulness will be undertaken with the aim of getting the communities to subscribe to and support its conservation. The campaign will also popularize the laws governing the reserve. The ill-defined and ambiguous boundaries which rationalise encroachment will be made clearly visible through brushing of the border, beacon erection, sign posting and establishment of a buffer zone. The degraded areas will be rehabilitated.
Damage is done to the reserve as forest edge communities utilize forest resources to finance a living. The project will create opportunities for alternative livelihoods. Alternative livelihoods will divert human activities away from the reserve into the salvage lands and so reduce pressure on the former.
A management plan and local bye laws will be created in consultation with the communities and the project will obtain an agreement between all focal communities, and the National Protected Area Authority /Forestry Department, and the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone to adhere to Forest protection laws. To ensure that all parties keep to the agreements a task force who will oversee and monitor events within the forest be instituted. A reserve governance structure will also be established.
The project will also contribute to the alleviation of poverty which is so high in the region, by establishing a loan scheme and promoting tourism.
The project will deliver a reserve with visible and well demarcated boundary known to all stake holders, and with a buffer zone around the perimeter. Stakeholders will be aware of governmental laws and regulations governing the reserve; and the reserve will be benefitting from people’s improved attitude towards it. An agreement between forest edge communities on one hand and NPAA/FD, Kenema DC and CSSL on the other, to adhere to Forest protection laws will be in place. There will be increased support of the stakeholders for the protection of the reserve. The establishment of alternative livelihoods will redirect the activities of the communities to areas outside the forest and positively influence their economic capacity. A well trained task force will overlook the benefit sharing scheme which would have been established. Most of the degraded areas within the reserve would be rehabilitated.
A popularised Governance structure will exist. The FMCs and FD staff will have greater capacity to undertake forest management as a result of training
Community members have appropriate opportunities to participate in management planning, processes and actions in collaboration with the NPAA and the department of forestry. Thus the project will leave behind a well-managed functional reserve, with highly protected rich biodiversity, and maintained ecosystem, with the species richness and diversity maintained or improved. It will provide an opportunity for threatened species to thrive again. Negative human activities will be minimal.
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The conservation society – Sierra Leone
