icd resource book: a legacy for the conservation through poverty alleviation project
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ICD Resource Book: a legacy for
the Conservation through Poverty
Alleviation Project
Andrew Gordon-Maclean,
IIED
Research to Policy Workshop
17th September 2013
Background
Originally proposed as a set of “ICD
Implementation Guidelines”.
At the inception workshop participants
suggested that the term guidelines implied
some kind of official document and that the
product would be better described as a
resource book.
Rationale
Short succinct tool kit that can be used by
practitioners and clearly outlines ICD in
Uganda – its legal and institutional
frameworks, lessons learned from ICD
practitioners;
Practitioners can use it as a guide to
resources available to implement ICD
effectively on the ground
NB – not large manual but will reference
resources for further reading
Audiences
Conservation practitioners/ field staff
working on integrated conservation
development projects
Development practitioners working
around national parks/ protected areas
Local policy makers
District staff
Proposed Structure
1. Summary
2. Foreword
3. Introduction
4. Defining ICD Success
5. Legal issues and ICD
6. Embedding good governance into natural resource planning
7. Understanding poverty
8. Understanding Resource Use
9. Recommendations For Practitioners; ICD Practitioner
Checklist; For Local Policy Makers
DEFINING ICD SUCCESS
Define the end goals and outputs e.g. reduced poverty and
increased Mt gorilla populations
Theory of Change for ICD in Uganda defined
Identify key milestones to achieve successful ICD
Output of this workshop – develop a theory of change ICD in
Uganda and Bwindi will be given as a case study example.
Will feature success ICD stories/case studies for practices that
were effective and reasons for their success.
LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL
FRAMEWORK FOR ICD
Highlights the legal framework that currently exists for ICD in
Uganda at different levels
International – e.g. CBD
National – e.g. The Wildlife Act CAP 200
Local – Bwindi Management Plan; local by-laws
Point out areas that could be built on/ further developed to help
current ICD projects
EMBEDDING GOOD
GOVERNANCE INTO NATURAL
RESOURCE PLANNING:
Practical ways for ICD practitioners to establish good governance
as the foundation of their ICD. Good governance principles include
participation, transparency, and accountability
E.g. Establishing M&E for good governance to evaluate
whether good governance has been achieved as part of the ICD.
Will include findings from the CTPA project as well as the
BMCT study.
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Understanding Resource Use
For national parks such as Bwindi, unauthorised resource can be
used as an indicator of local livelihood and wellbeing needs and
aspirations.
Studying unauthorised resource use can help to better understand
local needs in order to target ICD towards the conservation -
poverty alleviation linkages more effectively.
Links with FFI Batwa cultural values study.
Recommendations
Coming out of recent studies and
assessments of ICD – summarised
findings
Blomley et al. (2010)
CTPA study findings
BMCT assessment
Suggestions from UWA as well as NGOs
working on ICD
Going forward
We are currently compiling findings from
the CTPA study
Draft to be shared in December 2013
for comment by:
Relevant UWA and government authorities
Organisations involved in ICD
U-PCLG Members