CBNRM workshop program
Program
Monday, 4 April
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:45 Welcome address by Prof Kenneth Matengu (Vice-Chancellor UNAM)
9:45-10:30 Opening talk: CBNRM (Michael Bollig/Selma Lendelvo)
10:30-11:00 Reflection by John Kasaona
11:00-11:30 Coffee/Tea break
(1) Mechanisms of redistribution of benefits and revenue (Michael Bollig)
11:30-12:00 Conceptualising benefits in community-based conservation: The need for transparency (Gladman Thondhlana)
12:00-12:30 Repositioning CBNRM within a Whole-System Framework: Mukungule Community Conservancy, linking Local Learning, CBNRM and Business Literacy (Clever Musonda)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 CBNRM – A controversy on socio-economic livelihoods and a treat to sustainable conservation in Noth-Western Botswana (Satau Gakemotho)
14:00-14:30 Developing Community Conservancies and ICCAs in Zambia: A Whole-System Methodology (Hammer Simwinga)
14:30-15:00 The politics of CBNRM in Zambia (Rodgers Lubilo)
15:00-15:30 Coffee/Tea break
15:30-16:00 Navigating through the storm: Conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia (Linus Kalvelage)
16:00-16:30 Challenges and Opportunities for ≠Khoadi-//Hôas and the surrounding conservancies Post COVID-19 (Asser Ndjitezeua)
16:30-17:00 Conclusions from topic 1 (Michael Bollig)
Tuesday, 5 April
(2) Power, institutions and community (Alfons Mosimane)
9:00-9:30 Rebuilding community capitals: Does it take a Village (Brian Child)
9:30-10:00 Addressing the complexity of reconciling Conservation and People’s livelihoods: reflecting (challenges, opportunities and pitfalls) from an experiential case (Nicia Giva)
10:00-10:30 Surviving Crises: Community Conservation in Namibia as a resilient idea (Richard Kiaka)
10:30-11:00 Coffee/tea break
(3) The struggle for claims, rights and resources (Nicoli Nattrass)
11:00-11:30 Rethinking Community Based Natural Resource Management in Western Botswana (Robert Hitchcock)
11:30-12:00 Learning with nonviolent communication to unpack human-wildlife governance systems to promote human-wildlife coexistence (Ruth Kansky)
12:00-12:30 Right-Based Fisheries Co-management as a Solution to Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in Africa (Mafaniso Hara) (online)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Litigating the rights of Namibia’s indigenous peoples’ over land and natural resources – challenges and opportunities (Willem Odendaal)
14:00-14:30 Conclusions from topics 2 and 3 (Alfons Mosimane/Nicoli Nattrass)
(4) Climate change, ecology and environmental implications (Cyrus Samimi)
14:30-15:00 Mainstreaming Community Based Natural Resource Management in policies and institutional frameworks for climate change management: perspectives from the Great Limpopo trans-frontier conservation area, Zimbabwe (Olga Kupika)
15:00-15:30 Assessing the performance of a community-based natural resources management programme in Zimbabwe (Steven Matema)
15:30-16:00 Surviving CBNRM- related constrictions on food security among frontier communities (Ottie Luzibo)
16:00-16:15 Conclusions from topic 4 (Cyrus Samimi)
16:15-16:45 Coffee/tea break
World Cafés
16:45-17:00 World Café Introduction
Each Café will have two hosts, one non-academic and one academic (hosts tbd)
Café 1: Can Community based conservation tackle challenges in rural Africa?
Café 2: Can past and present environmental injustices be addressed by community-based conservation?
Café 3: Beyond commodification: Exploring venues for convivial livelihoods beyond the market
Café 4: Can CBNRM address problems of environmental change?
Wednesday, 6 April
9:00-9:30 Visit Café 1
9:30-10:00 Visit Café 2
10:00-10:30 Visit Café 3
10:30-11:00 Visit Café 4
11:00-11:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Reflection on the World Cafés
11:30-11:45 Café 1
11:45-12:00 Café 2
12:00-12:15 Café 3
12:15-12:30 Café 4
12:30-12:45 Café Synthesis
12:45-13:00 Final Discussion (Michael Bollig)
13:00-13:15 Closing remarks (Alfons Mosimane, Cyrus Samimi)