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These students are mainly from NGOs (TNC, WWF, Panthera, Resource Africa) and/or communities (South Luangwa, Samburu). Their take home message is that new skills in community governance and wildlife economy are addressing the biggest challenges they are facing, while acting together and using effective tools and guidelines will enable them to fight for the rights of communities to be shareholders, not stakeholders, in their wild resources. Feel free to reach out to any of them! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628b238bf51efc39be1d21f1/56dfdad9-77fd-48bd-950e-b995243a7f5c/WhatsApp+Image+2022-05-21+at+3.27.56+PM.jpeg The Students - Meet The Students 2022 The pilot course consisted of over 30 students, From South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, and the United States. They represent a diverse group of community managers, scholars, legislators, lawyers, fund managers, and researchers. Using this course as a meaningful enhancement to their skills, we hope they shall move the needle on CBNRM in Africa. Feel free to reach out to any of them! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628b238bf51efc39be1d21f1/af932b63-ee8d-4b88-92d9-a9235774d3bd/WhatsApp+Image+2022-05-24+at+12.02.41+PM.jpeg The Students - Testimonial: Thomas S. Lolososi PERSONAL VIEW The online classes have been very vivid with an illustrative demonstration by Prof. Brian Child presentations. The Professor has been data mining from volumes of CBNRM studies conducted by experts and himself together with others. His presentations guide in giving a pointer on the tenets of the course thus a student can delve further into the voluminous materials presented by himself for more information, or else the materials are adequately listed in the Student’s University’s Canvas in an organized manner, lesson by lesson. THINGS I CONSIDER THE MOST CONSIDERABLE FROM THE COURSE In the course, I took notice of a wide subject on governance and the various types of the same. From my place of work which is Kalama Wildlife Community Conservancy (KCWC), governance forms the first pillar of our objectives and this is the same for the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT), which is an umbrella of 43 community member conservancies spanning the Northern Kenya and the Coastal areas of the country. For conservancy managers’ annual award based on the Key Performance Index (KPI) by NRT, they give more acclaim to the governance of a conservancy by measuring the Board’s unity, decision making, adhering to policies, staff morale, capacity building, and teamwork in delivering the set goals, among others. I learned that governance is strengthened by Devolution and Micro Governance whereby the government sets policies that give property rights and management of natural resources to the local communities. This absolves the centralization of conservation activities from the Government and empowers the communities to lead and manage themselves in exploiting their resources. I leaned down in the community level of management, governance is further divided into two, being the Representational Governance and Participatory Governance whereby representational governance is committee-based and has the vulnerabilities of elite capture, exacerbating corruption, limiting grassroots participation hence pitfalls become evident; to mention but just a few. This system is multi-village hence each village elects a representative to sit on the committee; this is how our community conservancies conduct their conservation leadership and management. Weak conservancies can see manipulation by Board members and all the disadvantages listed in the course of representational governance is obvious in our Kenya situation. Participatory Governance is, therefore, the best approach and this works best in single-village governance but can be assimilated into a multi-village system by increasing and making regular community participation in decision making and opening the avenues and access to information. Once the local communities attain governance of their natural resources management, they start looking for ways of Earning Money, this is another important aspect of the course. Still, by earning money, they should adopt the Sustainable Use Approach. This is systematic and a crucial lesson in the course. The lessons also teach us that Equitable-Benefit-Sharing to local communities is a must for the objectives of the cause to be attained. And it further mentions that this is where it breaks or makes a CBNRM project. If the community feels they get enough from the project, the project will survive seeing wildlife trends improving and its programmes blossoming supported by the wide appeal of local communities. The course teaches that, when decisions are made down at the grassroots by local communities and adopted upwards to National Government levels, then, a CBNRM project gains the roots to grow its objectives and tentacles exponentially. It mentions this by an approach called Bottom-Up Accountability. In Kenya, this is very true, conservancies that have impacted their communities better, enhancing all-inclusivity in its affairs by bringing local communities at the center stage and exercising transparency, are much more stable and progressive than those that do not. The course emphasized as a CBNRM project progresses, it is wise to periodically consider the skill levels of leadership and management as well as the local communities, by adopting measures on Capacity Building. This is key as it enhances decision-making processes and process flows hence efficiency, effectiveness, and goals are realized. This can be achieved in form of bespoke training and team-building in extension to promote teamwork. A very fantastic aspect I learned and outstanding, is Trophy Hunting and how sustainable it is in wildlife numbers and creating benefits to local communities and the governments. This is unthinkable in Kenya and was banned in the 1970s, but the course has changed my perspective I am heading to Namibia this month for 2 weeks joining other colleagues from the class and it will be interesting witnessing this concept. 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Attendees learn not just from Dr. Child, but from each other, giving presentations and lectures on their own projects. This course could lead to, for example, Botswanans adopting Kenyan Carbon Credit model, or Kenyans adopting the Namibian sustainable hunting model. This course enhances a free flow of information and policy advice between African conservation efforts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628b238bf51efc39be1d21f1/d75950f5-c937-4733-b618-93cbbd9acf7c/Screenshot+2022-05-23+041306.png Our Philosophy - Online & In-Person Teaching This course is run online for 6 months, with a capstone, in-person workshop of 2 weeks. Internet based learning is an excellent boon for wildlife conservation, as it allows many community representatives to engage in courses and content that their schedules and budgets wouldn’t otherwise allow. 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