ICD Resource Book: a legacy for the Conservation through Poverty Alleviation Project

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

Thanks!