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Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM): Principles and Practices 

Facilitator: TBA
Dates: TBA. Please register your interest with IDSS.
 

Who is it for?

This course is suitable for program and project staff working in international aid and/or natural resource management projects; students of International, Community Development and/or Natural Resources Management; and volunteers. Some understanding of natural resource management is required, either through work experience or tertiary studies.
 

Course Description 

Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) has evolved from small isolated projects dotted across the globe to a standard natural resource management approach for almost all NRM aid programs and to institutionalised national approaches in many countries – Landcare is a good example. Why? It is estimated that 800 million of the world’s poorest people are connected to and depend on forests for their livelihood – without their direct involvement in the management of forests their forest ‘safety net’ would be further eroded as would the biological integrity of our remaining forests.
 
But CBNRM has not been all success – there have been some marked failures. This courses will encourage participants to explore these factors behind a good CBNRM project and those that have floundered or even failed. This course will introduce participnats to some of the key concepts, practices and methodologies of CBNRM and allow them to explore some of the structural issues of that will tip the balance in favour of a successful, sustainable CBNRM outcome – power, policies, livelihoods, tenure, equity and conflict.
 

Course Content

  • Community, Collaborative, Participatory – sorting and making sense of the jargon and understanding the continuum of collaboration and participation;
  • The rational for CBNRM and understanding why it has become ‘the’ approach to international NRM programs;
  • The basic principles and processes of CBNRM;
  • Exploring the fundamental issues of community, power and conflict;
  • The importance of understanding ‘institutions’ and stakeholders.
  • CBNRM and livelihoods – the (often) missing link;
  • Developing a CBNRM project – putting the pieces in place for a negotiated CBNRM agreement on resource management, access and use.
 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course participants will be able to:
  • Understand the different approaches to CBNRM to suit local contexts and situations and the evolution of CBNRM;
  • Identify and analyse key concepts and principles of CBNRM in order to gain a broader and deeper understanding of factors necessary for equitable and sustainable approaches to natural resource management;
  • Understand the difficulties now emerging in ‘second-generation’ issues of equity, livelihoods and active resource management;
  • Develop and understand a CBRNM resource agreement and the issues that must be considered.
 

Course Fees

TBA
 
  

Venue

IDSS Pty Ltd
Level 12, 60 Albert Road
SOUTH MELBOURNE  VIC  3205
AUSTRALIA
 

Registration:

Participants are requested to read the IDSS Training Policy before applying for registration/enrolment.

To register/enrol, download the Enrolment Form here and email your completed form through to training@idss.com.au
 
For additional information please contact:

Ruth Garner
Phone: + 61 8 8919 9767
Fax: + 61 8 8919 9750
Email: training@idss.com.au

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