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Do households gain from community-based natural resource management? An evaluation of community conservancies in Namibia

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  • Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit
  • Humavindu, Michael N.
  • Shyamsundar, Priya
  • Limin Wang
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    Community-based natural resource managementis an important strategy to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and wildlife in Namibia. The authors examine the extent to which conservancies have been successful in meeting their primary goal of improving the lives of rural households. They evaluate the benefits of community conservancies in Namibia by asking three questions: Do conservancies increase household welfare? Are conservancies pro-poor? And, do participants in conservancies gain more relative to those who choose not to participate? The authors base their analyses on a 2002 survey covering seven conservancies and 1,192 households. The results suggest that community conservancies have a positive impact on household welfare. This impact is poverty-neutral in some regions and pro-poor in others. Further, welfare benefits from conservancies appear to be somewhat evenly distributed between participant and nonparticipant households.

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    Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 3337.

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    Date of creation: 01 Jun 2004
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    Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:3337

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    Keywords: Poverty Monitoring&Analysis; Economic Theory&Research; Health Economics&Finance; Housing&Human Habitats; Decentralization; Housing&Human Habitats; VN-Acb Mis -- IFC-00535908; Poverty Monitoring&Analysis; Economic Theory&Research; Poverty Assessment;

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    1. Brian T. B. Jones, 1999. "Policy lessons from the evolution of a community-based approach to wildlife management, Kunene Region, Namibia," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 11(2), pages 295-304.
    2. Barnes, Jonathan I. & Macgregor, James & Chris Weaver, L., 2002. "Economic Efficiency and Incentives for Change within Namibia's Community Wildlife Use Initiatives," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 30(4), pages 667-681, April.
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    1. Esther Blanco & Javier Lozano, 2012. "Evolutionary success and failure of wildlife conservancy programs," Working Papers 2012-18, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck.

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