Julius mapping hunting area | Southeast Asia
25 April 2007
GDF Southeast Asia programme receives Darwin Initiative Post Project Funding
Participatory Resource Monitoring in Community Use Zones (CUZs) of Crocker Range Park
The Global Diversity Foundation’s regional programme in Southeast Asia received a two-year post project grant from the Darwin Initiative. The grant supports the implementation of a participatory resource monitoring programme that will enable local institutional partners and communities (Sabah Parks, PACOS, the Dusun community in Buayan-Kionop and GDF) to conduct long-term assessments of subsistence activities in the CUZs of Crocker Range Park. The grant will allow local partners and GDF to expand upon the initial three-year Darwin Initiative project entitled “Ethnobiology of Proposed Community Use Zones of Crocker Range Park”, which is ending in July 2007. The collaborative management approach advocated by the initial Darwin Initiative project has been embraced by the Sabah Parks officials.
Partner Institutions
Darwin Initiative grants (http://www.darwin.gov.uk )
Sabah Parks (http://www.sabahparks.org.my )
Partners of Community Organizations (PACOS) (http://www.sabah.net.my/PACOS ) back to top
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| | Southern Africa
3 May 2007
GDF Southern Africa programme receives The Royal Geographical Society Neville Shulman Challenge Award
The Kalahari Garden Project
Hattie Wells, regional coordinator for our southern African programme, has recently been awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s Neville Shulman Award, for the Kalahari Garden Project. The project aims to improve the food security and nutrition of the San population living in the southern part of the Omaheke region, Namibia, through the development of home gardens and a kitchen garden in the local school in collaboration with several local organizations. Participatory research will be conducted throughout the two-year project, with the aim of monitoring the impact of home gardens on food security and nutrition and documenting San knowledge and use of edible and medicinal wild plants. The Neville Shulman Award has helped us reach the target budget for the first year and we are pleased to announce that we will begin project activities in June 2007.
Partner Institutions
The Eden Project, UK (http://www.edenproject.com )
The Centre for Research, Information and Action in Africa, Southern Africa Development and Consulting (http://www.criaasadc.org )
The Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa (http://www.san.org.za )
Omaheke San Trust (http://www.santrust.org )
Komeho Nambia Development Agency (http://www.namibia-aid.org.uk/nakomeho.htm )
10 March 2007
Integrating Plant Resources into Botswana’s CBNRM strategies
Hattie Wells and Gary Martin travelled to Botswana in January and February 2007 to explore the possibilities of developing a project on the role of local plant knowledge in livelihood diversification and community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) strategies in Botswana. The visit was funded by a Darwin Initiative scoping award. The project’s target area changed during the visit, moving from the Central Kalahari to north-western Botswana. We are now designing a project to work with remote marginalised communities around the Okavango Delta and Dobe, to record and develop local plant knowledge in ways that will facilitate income generation and promote cultural heritage. The ultimate goal will be to integrate plant resources into Botswana’s CBNRM strategies.
Partner Institutions
Darwin Initiative grants (http://www.darwin.gov.uk)
The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (http://www.cbnrm.net)
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| | Mesoamerica
24 March 2007
GDF receives a consultancy from The Centre for Sustainable Development to review the status and needs of Community Conserved Areas (CCAs) in northern Mesoamerica region
The Global Diversity Foundation’s regional programme in Mesoamerica will oversee the consultancy. CCAs encompass natural sites, resources and species’ habitats conserved in a voluntary and self-directed way by indigenous peoples and local communities throughout the world. The consultancy goal is to deepen our understanding of the CCAs phenomenon in northern Mesoamerica regional context thereby strengthening and enhancing the trend world-wide. Based on collaboration with indigenous and local communities, we will identify concrete steps in the form of direct, field-based support to safeguard, enable and strengthen existing CCAs or to promote the development of new ones. The preliminary database will be included in the World Database on Protected Areas (UNEP/WCMC). Recommendations will also be provided regarding legislation, policy and other more structural forms of support to CCAs.
Partner Institutions
Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment
(http://www.cenesta.org)
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
(http://www.iucn.org)
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
(http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/index.html)
IUCN CEESP Theme on Governance, Equity, and Rights—TGER
(http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/TGER.html)
IUCN CEESP Theme on Sustainable Livelihoods—TSL
(http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/Wkg_grp/SL/SL.htm)
World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
(http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/index.html)
IUCN WCPA-CEESP Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity, and Livelihoods (formerly the Theme on Indigenous and Local Communities, Equity, and Protected Areas-TILCEPA)
(http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/Wkg_grp/TILCEPA/TILCEPA.htm)
Swedish International Biodiversity Programme
(SwedBio- http://www.swedbio.com) back to top |
