NAMIBIA

Given the importance of Namibia's CBNRM Programme and affiliated conservancy movement, a National CBRNM Sustainability Task Force was formed in 2008. The Task Force has developed a National CBNRM Sustainability Strategy that gives recognition to the need to form a combined government/civil society conservancy extension support system to permanently provide Minimum Support Packages (MSPs) to communal conservancies... ... or "Why do we need the Community Conservation Fund of Namibia?"The growth of Communal ConservanciesNamibia's conservancy movement was launched with the passing of the 1995 Policy for Wildlife Management, Utilisation and Tourism in Communal Areas. The policy was enshrined in legislation through Act No. 5 of 1996: Nature Conservation Amendment Act, 1996, which empowered rural communities to form communal conservancies.

Primary location: Windhoek Namibia