Serengeti General Management Plan

Serengeti National Park General Management Plan
holders as possible to contribute to the planning process in realistic and appropriate ways.
Figure A.3 illustrates the interactions between the various stakeholders making up the GMP
Planning Team (See Annex 4: for a full list of members).
Figure A.3: Serengeti GMP Planning Team
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Core Planning Team
- SENAPA Chief Park Warden
- TANAPA Planning Department Manager
- FZS Head of Africa Programme
- CDC Planning Coordinator
- SENAPA Park Ecologist
- SENAPA Heads of Department
- FZS Resource Persons (as required)
Process
Participatory Planning
Workshops
Management
Programme Working
Groups
Interdisciplinary Planning Team
- Hotel & Tour Operators
- Local communities
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority
- Wildlife Division
- TANAPA HQ
- Tourism, Planning & Business
- Conservation
- Finance, HR & Administration
- TAWIRI
- District Government
As detailed above, this GMP has been developed through a participatory process to ensure
that it has wide support from among the Park’s varied stakeholders and is both realistic and
implementable. The timeframe, main activities and outputs of the planning process are illustrated
in Annex 2:.
The planning process began with a meeting of the SENAPA Core Planning Team, which was
followed by an intensive period of information collection and stakeholder consultations leading
to the production of a Resource Base Inventory (RBI) report. The RBI presents an upto-date
synthesis of key background information and the state of knowledge on SENAPA that
is useful in the development of the GMP, and covers the following main topics:
� New collations of fauna and flora inventories
� Available GIS data including over 30 themed maps that present information on topography,
wildlife distribution, river networks, fire events, park infrastructure and park-adjacent
developments and activities
� Outputs from stakeholder consultations
� An analysis of SENAPA management issues
� Details of important international IUCN protected area guidelines
� Information on research published on the Serengeti
Using the findings of the RBI, the GMP Stakeholders Planning Workshop was held in
January 2004, which involved the full GMP Planning Team in developing the long-term strategic
framework for managing SENAPA. This included a review of the Park’s purpose and
resource values and the identification and prioritisation of the main management issues and
opportunities that impact on the Park’s values and the achievement of the Park’s purpose.
The GMP Planning Team developed provisional 10-year Management Objectives and Targets
for the SENAPA Management Programmes, which provided the framework for further
plan development.
The specific details of the Management Programmes were subsequently developed by specialist
Working Groups made up of the appropriate SENAPA and TANAPA HQ managers,
selected resource people and relevant stakeholders, plus a facilitator. Each group elaborated
the overall strategy, or general statement of policy, guidelines and prescriptions where nec-