Beyond Boundaries: Regional Overview of Transboundary Natural Resource
Management in Eastern Africa - Transboundary natural resource
management (TBNRM) is gaining currency as environmentalists and policymakers
recognize the limitations of existing national natural resource management
programs, policies, and laws. This study provides an overview of
policies, laws, and programs for TBNRM in the Eastern Africa Region. An
important point to note is that the national boundaries are not sensitive to
ecological issues; they do not take ecosystems into account. This overview is
followed by two very different case studies from two distinct practitioners:
The first case study, on the Minziro-Sango Bay Forest (MSBF) TBNRM Area across
the Tanzania-Uganda border, describes the evolution of a specific
transboundary project, funded by the GEF through UNDP, which addresses the
policy-enabling environment for cross-borders conservation of forest
biodiversity. The second case study was prepared by an International NGO
with a long history of conservation involvement in the region—AWF. African
Wildlife Foundation staff members chronicle their experience with
conservation, focusing on what is developing as a coherent program—the
Kilimanjaro Heartland across the Kenya-Tanzania border.
Africa
Biodiversity - Botany - East & Central Africa