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National Workshop on Human Wildlife Conflict Management 2005 4. Key areas for Capacity Building policy development Action Plan (Tsukhoe Garoes) • Interpretation and understanding of legislation and policy: • Critical to understand overall direction and constraints. • Environmental education: • Understanding of conservation issues; • Training of trainers. • Self-insurance scheme: • Insurance plan managed at conservancy level; • Financial management; • Income and expenditure . • Conflict management: • Negotiation; • Local wildlife policy and decision-making; creation; • Wildlife management Issue Next steps Lead person (or institution) Problem Decision-making: how to animal conserve; how to finance; how to monitor; control / wildlife management Environmental education critical before decisionmaking • MET / DEA – extension; • NGO: CBNRM and Wildlife management; • Higher education institutions; • School curricula; • UNAM/ Polytechnic. Stakeholders • Local, Regional and National Levels: Local: • Conservancies; • TAs; • VDCs Regional: • MET staff; • Regional Development Committees. Problem animal control Monitoring and evaluation, and communication 72
National Workshop on Human Wildlife Conflict Management 2005 Discussion A concern was raised that the action plans tended to focus on conservancies. It was pointed out that the workshop aimed at establishing a national policy and conservancies were sound management units to carry plans forward, but this did not exclude other institutions. The MET has the mandate to address HWCM throughout the country. The PS added that attention would also be given to resettled farmers and State land. He said that the draft policy should be ready to be presented in a year’s time. Closing Remarks Permanent Secretary Dr Malan Lindeque I have rarely been at a workshop where we have achieved so much, so quickly, with so much cooperation and goodwill. I think this has been a significant achievement. On anything this big and this complex we cannot solve everything in one session over two days. We will definitely need a lot of followup work but we have reached a common vision with common aspirations as to the way forward. From the side of the MET, we believe this is the first step towards obtaining such relief – we are under great pressure. There is hardly a weekend or a week that goes by without a Governor, councilor, conservancy member or private individual calling us and bitterly complaining about problem animals. Whatever we seem to do is never on time or sufficient in actually dealing with the problem. We believe this is the right direction to developing something we can put on the table that is much more holistic and inclusive and to ultimately make it clear that these responsibilities should be shared. Our Ministry was not designed to deal with these problems in an isolated way. We don’t have the resources to take on that responsibility. It is simply not possible any longer and we have to make use of all the assistance and all the shared responsibilities that we can achieve in this regard. If not, I think our budget needs to be tripled. Clearly, we have seen some great efficiency here at this meeting and I think this is quite remarkable. I would like to again thank USAID for the funding they made available for this meeting and I believe that USAID has also contributed to one of these studies; we acknowledge your great support. I want to thank everybody who has contributed. It is 5 pm on the second day and virtually everyone is still here; this is quite impressive. I am so happy to see such a large group from the MET, along with many conservancy and community representatives. Unfortunately, some could not make it but we have had excellent contributions from the conservancies and we appreciate it. Also thanks to the other partners and all other stakeholders. I conclude by thanking one of the most efficient workshop teams I have ever seen. You have done an outstanding job and everyone recognised your efficiency. The results of the workshop will be written up and circulated. Lets have results in as short a timeframe as is possible and from my side I will also ensure that this happens. 73
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