BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL

PARK (BINP)

GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN

2013-2023

The Community issues & Planned

activities for implementationPresented by:

Kapere Richard

UWA

GMP building blocks

1. Identify major conservation values for the PA

2. Review the protected area purpose

3. Identify management issues to address during the planning period

Identify management objectives

Propose management programs and activities

Identify PA Management zones

Provide for Monitoring and evaluation

mechanism

The Planning Process

• Uses; an Interdisciplinary and experienced Planning Team

• Through; an Interactive approach

• Considers; Community/ stakeholder involvement as key

Planning team for BINP GMP

(2013-2023)

Planning team(16members):

Planning Unit-

secretariat; Kampala

BINP Field team-

selected staff

ITFC, IGCP

Kisoro-NGO forum

Kabale-DNRO

Kanungu-DEO

STEPS Cont’

5. Stakeholder consultations (Data and information

gathering from outside the PA-Communities)

District level

Subcounty Level

Resource users

6.National consultations (Kampala)

7. ………………………….

11.Presentation of draft plan to stakeholders

Districts and

Sub-county stakeholders

Major community issues

1. Crop raiding by Problem animals

2. Lack of compensation scheme

3. Poor Vermin control

4. Inadequate interventions to deal with PAM

5. Lack of an institutional home for HUGO

6. Lack of knowledge and skills by communities to generate

R/Sharing project proposals

7. Habituated Gorilla groups ranging on private land

8. Fixed/static empirical gorilla levy rate (percentages would be

appropriate)

9. Inadequate involvement of local leaders in community

sensitization.

10. Lack of integration between District development plans and BINP

Management Plan

Major community issues

11. Untimely release of Revenue Sharing money

12. Poor Identification of Gorilla levy projects

13. Local community dissatisfaction with the current revenue

sharing

14. Revenue sharing not benefiting people affected by the PA

15. Limited access to park resources

16. Un employment of the Batwa community-Benefits

17. Lack of physical plan implementation around Bwindi

18. Land shortage outside the park

19. Poor sanitation

20. Increasing pressure to habituate more Gorillas for tourism

Identified major actions

1. Construct and maintain barriers to control problem animals

2. Recruit and train standby problem animal guard squad near prone

areas

3. Develop and apply measures for rewarding exemplary community

performance in PAM

4. Equip and facilitate wildlife committees and HUGO teams with

resources and skills

5. Lobby and facilitate integration of PAM issues into sub country

and District development plans

6. Implement the revenue sharing policy

7. Identify and promote the multiplication (ex-situ) of forest

resources outside the park

Identified major actions

8. Engage the Local Government and other stakeholders to design

and implement strategies aimed at addressing human population

pressure around the PA.

9. Commission a study to undertake an economic valuation of BINP

10. Liaise with other stakeholders to develop and execute a common

awareness program (integrate awareness plans)

11. Work with Local Governments and other partners to improve

hygiene and sanitation.

12. Reactivate the stakeholders forum

13. Harmonize park plans with Local Government plans

14. Using Batwa, take an inventory of all medicinal plants for further

research and mapping

15. Involve the Batwa in establishing herbal demonstration sites

outside the park

Collaborative management (Zone)

• Management priority is to conserve the Park values through

an integrated approach encompassing protection, education,

restoration and community conservation approaches.

• Regulated harvesting of biophysical resources in a sustainable

manner by community residents is allowed in agreed

resource-use areas but only through negotiated collaborative

management agreements.

• Collaborative management agreements will clearly define the

resources to be used, the resource user community for each

agreement and the agreed resource-use area for that

community, together with the agreed control and monitoring

mechanisms.

• The zone shall be confined within 2km distance from the park

boundary where there are no tourism activities.

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Good conservation planning will avoid situations of this

nature in future. THANK YOU