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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Namibia Association of Community Based Natural
Resource Management Support Organisations
PO Box 98353
Pelican Square
Windhoek
Namibia
Email: nacso@iafrica.com.na
Website: www.nacso.org.na
Type: NGO
Scope: national
Interest in Forestry: central
Description
Namibia’s National CBNRM Programme is a joint venture between Government and non-government institutions,
communities, community-based organisations and development partners. The
programme aims to provide incentives to communities to manage and use wildlife and other natural resources
in sustainable and productive ways. It does this by promoting three closely related
approaches.
- a natural resource management and conservation programme that “promotes wise and sustainable management
of natural resources, and encourages biodiversity conservation by creating the
necessary conditions for sustainable use”.
- a rural development programme that “seeks to devolve rights and responsibilities over wildlife and
tourism to rural communities, thereby creating opportunities for enterprise development and income
generation”.
- an empowerment and capacity-building programme that “it encourages and assists communities and their
local institutions to develop the skills and experience to sustainably develop and pro-actively
pilot their own futures”.
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