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Making Sense of Community Natural Resource Governance Perceptions


Publisher: Forest Briefs, IUCN

Author(s): IUCN

Date: 2020

Topics: Governance, Livelihoods, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming, Renewable Resources

Countries: Uganda

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How do you encourage the participation of communities and traditional institutions in enhancing landscape governance in and around protected areas? Ask them. Understanding attitudes and personal histories are paramount to successful landscape governance approaches.

The landscape approach to reconciling conservation and development has gained momentum in the past two decades. However, there are very few examples of tools and methods on how to implement it on the ground. IUCN, with support from the German Government’s International Climate Initiative (IKI), addressed this gap in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. The aim is to demonstrate how conservation and development benefits can be generated through better use of protected area categories supported by a participatory process of land-use governance at the landscape level.