USAID Support to the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Program in Namibia: LIFE Program Review
Author(s): App, Brian, Mosimane, Alfons Wabahe, Resch, Tim, Robinson, Doreen
Publication Date: 2008
DOWNLOAD FILESince 1992 USAID has contributed to the support of Namibia’s Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) program through the Living in a Finite Environment (LIFE) program. This report reviews USAID’s investment, major accomplishments and results, captures and disseminates lessons learned, and makes recommendations for the LIFE program and the CBNRM program in Namibia after USAID funding ends.
Information relevant to Learning Questions:
Are enabling conditions in place to support a sustainable enterprise?
- Stakeholder alignment
- Access to credit/capital
- Ownership, governance
- Policies for enterprises, business alliances
- Financial management capacity, technical capacity
- Benefit sharing, targeted participants, biodiversity linkage, policies for and enforcement of resource use
Does the enterprise lead to benefits to stakeholders?
- Increased income for participants
- Non-cash benefits
Do the benefits lead to positive changes in attitudes and behavior?
- Attitudes regarding sustainable use of resources
- Behaviors regarding sustainable use of resources
Does a change in stakeholders’ behaviors lead to a reduction to threats to biodiversity (or restoration)?
- Biological resource use
Does a reduction in threats (or restoration) lead to conservation?
- Forest ecosystems
- Freshwater ecosystems
- Species
Enterprise Types:
- Terrestrial ecotourism: conservancies
Document type
- Assessment
- Case-study
- Report
