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COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT WORKING GROUP (CMWG): brief
and preliminary TECHNICAL REPORT January-May 2003
CMWG
and the IUCN secretariat
We are delighted
to report that a long-time CMWG member, Gonzalo
Oviedo, has been hired as Senior Social
Policy Advisor in IUCN Hq. Another CMWG member—Juliette
Koudenoukpo Biao— has been hired by the IUCN Regional Office
for West Africa. That office had already hired a CMWG
member—Jean Marc Garrreau— as Programme Coordinator. Most
recently, another long time CMWG member—James Murombedzi—has
been hired as IUCN regional Director for Southern Africa. It seems that IUCN is fully realising
the potential of CMWG affiliates! We wish to all of them
very productive work!
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The CMWG work in 2003 has
continued to see a steady progress in membership (currently
we have about 300 members) and to stress publications and
the collaboration with TILCEPA. In terms of regional focus,
so far stands out Africa
as a whole (two meetings held there, one dedicated volume
under development). We are expecting, however, to further
develop initiatives in South East Asia, a region so-far
relatively neglected by CMWG activities. Several members
are discussing a potential development of CMWG initiatives
in the area of culture and conservation. Related
to this, CM in dryland/ pastoral environment will likely
receive more attention, also as a consequence of an approved
project on CM of pastoral environments in Iran (several CMWG members
were involved in developing the project proposal and are now
expected to implement it). Initiatives in collaboration with
the IUCN Sustainable Use Special Group are also becoming more
common.
Publications
2003 has seen the production
of a publication in Spanish (EQUIDAD
ENTRE AREAS PROTEGIDAS Y COMUNIDADES LOCALES: REFLEXION DESDE
MESOAMÉRICA Y EL CARIBE), developed as a spin-off
of the September 2002 meeting in San José of Costa Rica.
The publication was launched as part of the Managua
meeting on protected areas in March 2003. A declaration
from that meeting includes direct reference to CM issues.
A joint
WCPA/CEESP issue of Parks dedicated to partnerships in
Africa (editors Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend
gbf@cenesta.org and Trevor Sandwith trevor@capeaction.org.za ) including
articles by 7 CMWG members has also been completed and is
expected to be distributed in June 2003.
Currently
under development are:
- A
joint CEESP/WCPA issue of Policy Matters dedicated to
community conserved areas (CCAs) and co-managed protected
areas (CMPAs) co-edited by 4 CMWG members (Chimère Diaw
c.diaw@cgiar.org ,
Alex de Sherbinin adesherbinin@ciesin.columbia.edu,
Gonzalo Oviedo gonzalo.oviedo@iucn.org
and Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend) including articles by about
50 CMWG members. The book is expected to be launched at
the World Parks Congress in Durban, this
coming September.
- A
joint publication with TILCEPA co-authored by 2 CMWG members
in association with many others. It is entitled Innovative
Governance of Natural Resources by Hanna Jaireth lawjs@ozemail.com.au and Dermoth Smyth erus@tpg.com.au. The book is expected to
be launched at the World Parks Congress in Durban, this
coming September.
- A
booklet on Lessons Learned on Communities, Equity and
Conservation in Southern Africa, to be made available
in draft form at the World Parks Congress in Durban, this
coming September. The volume is being edited by Webster
Whande wwhande@uwc.ac.za
with the collaboration of many CMWG members. It includes
and highlights the Pretoria declaration.
- A joint
IIED-CEESP/CMWG publication (350 pages!) co-authored by
4 long-standing CMWG members in association with—literally—hundreds
of others. It is entitled SHARING POWER— Learning by
Doing in Co-management of Natural Resources throughout the
World by Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend gbf@cenesta.org
, Michel Pimbert
Michel.Pimbert@iied.org,
Taghi Farvar taghi@cenesta.org,
Ashish Kothari ashishkothari@vsnl.com, and Yves Renard yr@candw.lc with Hanna Jaireth, Marshall Murphree,
Vicky Pattemore, Ricardo
Ramirez and Patrizio Warren.
The book is expected to be launched at the World Parks
Congress in Durban, this
coming September.
- A
volume tentatively entitled Guidelines on Indigenous
and Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas, part
of the WCPA Cardiff series, expected to be made available
in draft form at the World Parks Congress in Durban, this
coming September. The volume is being written by CMWG members.
- A
handbook entitled Carrying out a Participatory Evaluation
of Governance in a Protected Area Setting expected to
be made available in draft form at the World Parks Congress
in Durban, this coming September. The volume is being written
by CMWG members.
Meetings
and policy initiatives
Meetings among CMWG members
(often jointly with TILCEPA members) have also been held in
Pune (India) in January 2003, in Pretoria (South Africa) in
February 2003, in Managua (Nicaragua) in March 2003, in Santiago
(Chile) in March 2003, in the Kompienga (Burkina Faso) in
March 2003, in Ancona (Italy) in April 2003 and in Manila
(the Philippines) in April 2003. The meetings in Pretoria,
Kompienga
and Managua developed three declarations that make reference to co-management
issues and are downloadable from this site (click on the meeting
place to download the relevant declaration).
Policy initiatives on the
development of a new characterising dimension for protected
areas -- governance type—have been discussed at another
meeting (Speaking a Common Language) held in Moreton in Marsch
(UK) in May 2003. Several CMWG members were present and collaborated
towards common policy goals.
The CMWG
member of the Steering Committee in charge of CM in mining
operations and the Chair of CEESP have jointly attended a
meeting on Mining in Africa,
where initiatives for CM of mining operations have
been envisaged. Further work is on going.
CEESP
COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT WORKING GROUP (CMWG): 2nd
TECHNICAL REPORT 2002 (July-December 2002)
The CMWG work in 2002 has
focused initiatives on publications and proposal development.
In terms of regional focus, stand out West and Central Africa, Central America, and Europe. The year has also been characterised by
a vigorous collaboration with TILCEPA, the joint CEESP/ CMWG
Theme on Indigenous and Local Communities, Equity and Protected
Areas. Indeed, CMWG and TILCEPA activities have often merged.
The very limited financial resources of the group have been
mostly spent to support initiatives in and about the West
and Central Africa regions, continuing a trend of region-focused
spending, allowing more focused and effective results (in
2001, the CMWG funds had been focused in the Caribbean region).
Specific CMWG meetings have been held as often as possible,
taking advantage of gatherings attended by several members,
as in the case of the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD, Johannesburg, August-September 2002), and others.
The Steering
Committee has been renewed and the new members are reported
on the main CMWG page.
Membership
and discussion list
The year 2002 has seen a
major growth of membership for the CMWG (over 50% growth in
one year). At the end of 2002 we were 250 members from over
forty countries (half of which in the South), each of them
personally introduced/ recommended by other members. The
group’s files are been cleared of data about non-active members.
The work of maintaining the database and mailing list is
long and rather painful, and we are all thankful to Nahid
Naghizadeh (nahid@cenesta.org
) for her great diligence and care in carrying it out. Nahid
is assisted by Aghaghia Rahimzadeh (aghaghia@cenesta.org ). Nahid took over
from Lisa Pourlak, who left us to mother her first child.
Nahid and Aghaghia work closely with Maryam Rahmanian, the
CEESP Communication Officer, in charge of the CEESP web site
and its special sections on CMWG and TILCEPA.
The discussion list of the
group has been quite active, with exchanges on current opportunities
for CM-related work, announcements of publications and initiatives
and debates on a variety of subjects. These ranged from the
spiritual benefits of conservation to ways to support members
active in protecting their local environments from oil, gas
and mining industries, from denunciation of political abuses
and possible corruptions in conservation-related controversies
to an in-depth discussion on a “de-construction of protected
areas mythology”, from the environmental consequences of war
to the repercussions of the current political turmoil on the
CAMPFIRE initiatives in Zimbabwe. The main languages utilised
in the discussion group are English and Spanish. A Brazilian
chapter of the CMWG discussion list, coordinated by the CMWG
representative in South America, Claudio Carrera Maretti cmaretti@uol.com.br
, is also very active discussing CM issues.
Publications
2002 saw the publication
of the largest and most substantial issue of CM News published
so far (148 pages!), a special issue jointly with Policy Matters
dedicated to Sustainable Livelihoods and Co-management of
Natural Resources and launched at the WSSD meeting in Johannesburg,
in September 2002. This issue was coordinated by Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend
with Taghi Farvar and saw the active participation (as authors,
reviewers, etc.) of 58 CMWG members! Click
here to download the issue. The year also saw the joint
publication with WCPA of an issue of Parks dedicated to local
communities and protected areas. The issue was coordinated
by Jessica Brown (jbrown@qlf.org)
and Ashish Kothari (ashishkothari@vsnl.com
), the CMWG team in charge of protected areas issues. The
articles involved 15 CMWG members as authors! Click
here to download the issue.
In 2002 the CMWG developed
its first publication for the CEESP Occasional Paper Series
(printing and diffusion expected to be completed in 2003).
The booklet, in French, is entitled Tchim Tchiami : Fierté de
la Cogestion-- Au cœur de la biodiversité d'Afrique Centrale,
les communautés locales ont fait du Parc National de Conkouati-Douli
leur propre aire protégée s'étendant
de la côte océanique aux montagnes forestières du Mayombe.
The authors are Christian Chatelain les5chatelains@free.fr , Marcel Taty
marceltaty@yahoo.fr , Jean Claude Nguinguiri
jean.claude.nguinguiri@iucn.org
and Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend gbf@cenesta.org
-- all CMWG members. The booklet recount a story of the
development of a co-management partnership for a national
park in Congo Brazzaville, a protected area set in an extremely
unfavourable socio-political environment. The story includes
plenty of counter-intuitive happenings and lessons learned
applicable to other areas. We decided to commission and publish
this booklet for two main reasons. The first is that publications
on co-management in French, and especially about African initiatives,
are scarce and in high demand. The second is that the specific
experience of the co-management setting of Conkouati-Douli National Park,
particularly instructive and worth recording and diffusing,
is currently under threat. We hope the booklet may help it
regain strength. We expect that the CEESP booklet will be
utilised in the Central Africa schools currently
engaged in pilot CM training experiences, as well as in forthcoming
learning-by-doing initiatives in West
Africa.
Applied
research
As many members
of the CMWG are also members of TILCEPA, CMWG activities and
TILCEPA activities have tended to merge. A project entitled
Ecosystems, Protected Areas and People (EPP) assured a limited
but useful pool of resources for some regional applied research
that involved a large number of CMWG members. The research
has focused on the regional status and characteristics of
community conserved areas and co-managed protected areas and
on the history of conservation. The reports and papers produced
so far are downloadable from this site on the page, "Community
Conserved Areas & Co-managed Protected Areas".
Regional
initiatives
Europe
Numerous
European members of CMWG gathered in Carynthia (Austria) in June 2002 as part of the meeting of IUCN and WCPA members from
Europe. We organised a specific workshop on co-management
which was very well attended and saw cases from all over Europe illustrated and discussed. Please see the
report of the workshop (click
here to download), developed by the member Katrhyn Furlong
fmkathryn@yahoo.com. As part of the gathering,
CMWG members and partners from Europe also had several side
meetings on a project proposal on co-management of protected
areas in Central and Eastern Europe, known as COMPAS (click
here to download the full latest proposal). (Contacts:
Andrej Sovinc andrej.sovinc@guest.arnes.si and
Marjia Zupancic Vicar m.z.vicar@g-kabel.si ). The proposal was
then completed and submitted to several donors. Funding has
not been fully achieved, but one donor expressed the desire
of participating in co-funding.
Groups of
members have worked together in specific locations, as for
the Swiss, French and Italian CMWG members who organised a
major meeting to demand a participatory form of trans-boundary
protection for the Mont Blanc area (contacts: Barbara Ehringhaus
b.ehringhaus@freesurf.ch Christian
Chatelain les5chatelains@free.fr
, Andrea Finger-Stich Andrea.Finger@wanadoo.fr
) and are now active in national follow up meetings with the
local constituencies.
Hugh Govan
HGovan@compuserve.com –CMWG Steering Committee
member in charge of CM in marine environments— has been active
in Europe as organiser of two courses
in the module on Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management
of the Masters Degree on International Studies in Aquatic
Tropical Ecology (ISATEC) at the University of Bremen: 1. Participatory techniques
and Stakeholder Analysis and 2. Trans-disciplinarity and Management.
In that occasions he offered a key note speech on Participatory
processes in Coastal Zone Management in the symposium 10 Years
after Rio - Steps towards a Sustainable Use and Development
of Coastal Areas, Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft, Bremen (Germany).
Central
America
In Central
America the cooperative Sol
y Dar, where numerous CMWG members work, including the CMWG
Deputy Chair Vivienne Solis (vsolis@racsa.co.cr)
organised a CMWG workshop on communities, equity and protected
areas in September 2002. The workshop discussed the possibility
of establishing a CM learning network in Central America and produced a publication downloadable
from this site . A campaign involving CMWG members from
different countries was also launched by a member from Honduras,
to protest the encroachment of shrimp farming into a RAMSAR
site.
West
Africa
In West Africa CMWG members
have been active in two main areas. The first regards the
co-management of the periphery of the trans-boundary Park W, uniting
Burkina
Faso, Bénin and Niger.
Some of them are in charge of initiatives (Aziz El Hadj Issa
azizou@borgou.net;
Francois Busson rafrabus@club-internet.fr
) while others are employed as key consultants (Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend,
Tom Price price@cirad.fr
, Gill and Kees Voght sahelgb@intnet.ne ). As part of this initiative,
co-management is being envisaged in informal ways around “management
units” of natural resources in the periphery of the Park,
to be identified by the relevant local actors. An important
link is also with the decentralisation policies in the three
relevant countries.
Also in
West Africa,
a network of marine protected areas has been planned in February
2002 (meeting in Nouakchott, Mauritania). A further
workshop held in Guinea Bissau in October 2002 co-sponsored
by IUCN, WWF, FIBA and CEESP/CMWG identified CM learning by
doing initiatives as a crucial need to be satisfied as part
of the future regional work programme. Several CMWG members
(including Augusta Henriquez augusta_sh@hotmail.com and Mohamed Nagy
Ould BOUCEIF bouceif@mauritania.mr)
participated in the workshop and played a key role in the
development of a forward-looking project proposal. The project
is available upon request from gbf@cenesta.org.
USA
Hugh Govan HGovan@compuserve.com –CMWG Steering Committee
member in charge of CM in marine environments— has offered
courses on participatory processes in Integrated Coastal
Management, participatory aquaculture research, and multi-
stakeholder planning for marine environments at the Summer
Institute in Coastal Management (Coastal Resource Center of the University of Rhode Island).
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