Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) is a paradigm that has emerged in
response to the perceived failure of past approaches to conservation and development. CBNRM
is intended to deliver socio-economic development to impoverished rural communities, who
manage natural resources, and harness the utility of these resources as a vehicle for development.
This dissertation revisits the concept of CBNRM, using the Tchuma Tchato project at Bawa, Tete
Province, Mozambique as a case study. A conceptual framework for a CBNRM project
intervention is developed and used to analyse the Tchuma Tchato project. The role of external
agents, and particularly the lead institution, is vital to a project intervention. It is shown that
external agents need to be well organised, and they need to interact effectively as a team.
External agents need to have the financial and human capacity, and an understanding of CBNRM
to play a constructive and effective role in a time-bound project intervention. A project
intervention must evolve from a top-down intervention into an autonomous CBNRM programme,
that is sustainable, and that can contribute to a process of sustainable development and
conservation after the end of a project life. In order to realise this, a project intervention must be
rigorously planned and designed. This formulation is critical to the subsequent implementation
and operation of a project. It is vital that a CBNRM addresses the key characteristics of
CBNRM, and that in doing so, it delivers social, economic and environmental development to the
targeted community.
Analysis of the Tchuma Tchato project at Bawa has elucidated that the project is floundering.
Application of the conceptual framework to Tchuma Tchato has established causes for this. The
primary cause is a weakness in the roles played by the lead institution and external agents. The
project was not rigorously formulated. The project has not been effectively managed. The
project has failed to address the key characteristics of CBNRM, and it is not contributing to a
process of sustainable development. This analysis has facilitated the identification of remedial
actions for Tchuma Tchato at Bawa, and recommendations for future CBNRM projects have been
made. / Thesis (M.Env.Dev.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1998.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/5546 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Maughan Brown, Anthony Michael. |
| Contributors | Breen, Charles M. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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