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Terminal review of the Sustainable Use of Wildlife in Namibia Project
The Sustainable Use Project that WWF-Norway supported with Norad funds, was built on the foundations prepared over more than two decades by pioneers of community based natural resource management (CBNRM) in southern Africa, and was undertaken as an integral component of the broader Namibian CBNRM Programme. It supported the Namibia CBNRM Natural Resources Working Group, one of three working groups under the Namibian Association of CBNRM Support Organisations (NACSO), to build capacity in natural resource management and monitoring capabilities amongst CBNRM practitioners.This evaluation was undertaken in accordance with the WWF Network Standards which stipulates that all projects require an evaluation to assess whether it achieved what it set out to do. This is a crucial element of adaptive management and part of our programme cycle. The aim of the project was to ensure that use of wildlife is sustainable in community conservancies so as to sustain healthy wildlife populations and that the benefits possible from sustainable use are maximised for communities, to contribute to improved livelihoods. It supported the development of community conservancy management and monitoring systems (such as game counts, daily data collection and management planning), capacity building amongst CBNRM practitioners in these systems, and working with national stakeholders to improve implementation of regulatory controls for wildlife use, trade and transport.