Do Households Gain from Community-Based Natural Resource Management? An Evaluation of Community Conservancies in Namibia
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| Author(s) | Bandyopadhyay, S. Humavindu, M.N. Shyamsundar, P. Wang, W. |
| Date | July 2004 |
| Reference type | Paper |
| Source name | Policy Research Working Papers |
| Pages | 25 pp. |
| Publisher | World Bank, Washington, D.C. |
Summary
Community-based natural resource management is an important strategy to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and wildlife in Namibia. This paper examines the extent to which conservancies have been successful in meeting their primary goal of improving the lives of rural households. It evaluates the benefits of community conservancies in Namibia by asking three questions: (a) Do conservancies increase household welfare? (b) Are conservancies propoor?(c) And, do participants in conservancies gain more relative to those who choose not to participate? The analysis is based on a 2002 survey covering seven conservancies and 1,192 households. The results suggest that community conservancies have a positive impact on household welfare. This impact is poverty-neutral in some regions and pro-poor in others. Further, welfare benefits from conservancies appear to be some what evenly distributed between participant and non-participant households.
Themes
CBNRM
Geographic coverage
Namibia
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