Community based forest management / decentralised natural resources management

Some recent assignments conducted in the fields of community based natural resource management include the following:

• Intermittent, backstopping support to the Tanzanian government’s Participatory Forest Management programme
  Client – Danida / Government of Tanzania

• The development of a component document for Danida and other development partners support to Decentralised Natural Resource Management, Tanzania. 2009 – 2012.
  Client – Danida

• Preparation of a study designed to assess the poverty / livelihood impacts of community forestry and community fisheries in Cambodia
  Client – Danish Embassy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

• Designed a national conditional block grant mechanism to local governments with the objective of supporting community based natural resources management across mainland Tanzania
  Client – Embassy of Norway, Tanzania

• Undertook a review of Community Based Natural Resources Management in East and Southern Africa
  Client – International Institute for Environment and Development, UK

• Documented rights based approaches in natural resource management, drawing on experiences from Uganda, Ghana and Nepal
  Clients – Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and CARE International

• Supported WWF in Democratic Republic of Congo to critically review their CBNRM strategy at project, landscape and national levels and develop a more coherent approach
  Client – Worldwide Fund for Nature, USA

• Review of WWF’s support to participatory forest management in the Mau-Mara Ecosystem, with a view to developing recommendations for a future, landscape level programme
  Client: WWF-Germany