Proceedings of the 3rd National CBNRM Forum, 2016

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On 26^th May 2016, the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) organized the 3^rd National CBNRM Forum in Tanzania. The main objective of the National CBNRM forum has always bee to provide a platform for multi-stakeholder exchange of information, sharing experiences and agreeing on a common course for the success of CBNRM in Tanzania.

This 3^rd forum focused its discussion on CBNRMs in the Wildlife sector in Tanzania, such as the Community Conservation and Outreach Services (CCS), the Wildlife Management Area (WMA) approach and Community-Based Wildlife Management (CBWM). Other sectors (such as forestry, fisheries and rangelands) were left for discussion through other TNRF initiatives and through its partner activities. Specifically, the forum:

• Shared lessons, experience, current research findings and plans from current initiatives on Wildlife conservation – from the government, development partners, funding agents, national and international organization
• Engaged multi-stakeholders and promoted dialogue on various issues and efforts related to Development and Conservation of the Wildlife in Tanzania, including discussions of possible options and innovative models on wildlife conservation
• Promoted re-establishment of the Wildlife Working Group under TNRF coordination to work on pertinent and emerging issues and synergies with on-going initiatives.

The main outcome of the forum was the re-establishment of the Wildlife Working Group (WWG). TNRF intends to revisit and put into practice priority actions and recommendations from various wildlife-related meetings by re-establishing and strengthening a working group on wildlife.

Download a full report of the 3^rd CBNRM Forum (including presentations).