Benefits to Local Communities from Community Conservancies in Namibia: An Assessment

• Tác giả: Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 711.4 Local community planning (City planning)
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 292555
• Chủ đề: 1. Economic Development: Human Resources; 2. Human Development; 3. Income Distribution; 4. Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320; 5. Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120

Tóm tắt

 This article evaluates the benefits of community-based activities in wildlife conservancies in Namibia by asking three questions. Do community conservancies contribute to an increase in household welfare? Are such programmes pro-poor
  that is, do they improve welfare more for poorer households than for the less poor? Does participation in conservancy increase household welfare more for participants than non-participants? This study bases the analyses on a 2002 survey covering seven conservancies and 1192 households. The results suggest that community conservancies have a positive impact on household welfare. The authors also conclude that this impact is poverty-neutral in some regions and pro-poor in others. Further, welfare benefits from conservancies appear to be fairly evenly distributed between participant and non-participant households.