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The aim of the Programme is "to create an enabling
environment for sustainable support to community based natural
resources management (CBNRM) activities, undertaken by rural
communities in Botswana, while maximizing information sharing
between similar initiatives in the Southern African region".
This is done by facilitating the dialogue between CBNRM stakeholders
(CBOs, NGOs, private sector, and Government) through the support
to the National CBNRM Forum, which has firmly established itself
in 2000. CBNRM is a multiple sector approach and dependent on
the support of multiple stakeholders. Communication, co-operation,
co-ordination between the stakeholders is vital to the success
of CBNRM. The forum plays currently a key role in the debate
on how to improve CBNRM, in co-ordinating activities of various
stakeholders, and translating lessons into change and policy
development. The viable dialogue in the Forum aims to consolidate
a supportive legal, policy and institutional CBNRM framework
in Botswana. The CBNRM Support Programme is instrumental in
improving the dialogue between CBNRM agencies at various levels
through technical and financial support to:
- The National CBNRM Forum;
- The District CBNRM Fora in Ngamiland and Ghanzi; and
- Various workshops and CBNRM-related conferences.
Different stakeholders (NGOs, Government Departments, private
sector, CBOs, consultants and research institutes) play different
roles in the further development and implementation of CBNRM.
The CBNRM Support Programme assists all stakeholders with the
implementation and facilitation of CBNRM by sharing experience
on the basis of successes and failures over the last 12 years.
The Programme therefore collects, analyses and assembles this
information, and makes it available to the stakeholders in the
form of reviews, background information, guides, and training
manuals. Wherever information is lacking, additional research
is conducted. These materials are available through the CBNRM
web site, the CBNRM Resources Centre and through online technical
advice. In addition, the CBNRM Support Programme carries out
a strategic CBNRM training initiative with focal support organisations.
The Programme contributes to the refinement of CBNRM models
in the southern African region by sharing lessons learnt and
best practices in Botswana with surrounding countries. The
enhanced regional information sharing aims to allow practitioners
to learn from the Botswana CBNRM experiences and to tap into
the lessons learnt of similar initiatives elsewhere in the
region. The regional exchange is done through the Regional
CBNRM initiative of WWF SARPO that has established a Regional
CBNRM Forum for sharing best practices, information and peer
learning made operational and several working groups on different
subjects such as policy formulation, training, economic evaluation
etc.
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