Benefits to local communities from community conservancies in Namibia: an assessment

Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay, Michael Humavindu, Priya Shyamsundar and Limin Wang

Development Southern Africa, 2009, vol. 26, issue 5, 733-754

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Community-based natural resource management; wildlife; conservancies; welfare; Namibia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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