research to policy: capacity building for conservation through poverty alleviation
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Research to Policy:Capacity Building for Conservation Through
Poverty Alleviation
Research to Policy WorkshopSeptember 17-18 2013, Metropole-
Kampala, Uganda
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Background information
• Ranger Based Monitoring Program (RBMP)has a good database on ‘where and what’ for illegal activities
• The ‘who and why’ remain unanswered
• Conservation Through Poverty Alleviation (CTPA) project launched the collection of ‘fresh arrest data’ from August 2012 to document and understand the profiles and motivations of Unauthorised Resource Users (URUs)
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Background Information
• Fresh arrests from August 2012 to February 2013 were interviewed (n=12)
• Collected and analyzed the available socioeconomic data from August 2012 to July 2013 (n=39)
• Total number by July 2013 (n=39)
• These are not the only URU but those arrested by UWA rangers
• There are minor differences with records of law enforcement
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Key profile on the location of arrest and residence of fresh arrested individuals
• 62% (n=15) places of illegal activity are places of arrest. This comprised of 69% (n=27) of the arrested
• 38% (n= 9) places of illegal activity were different from arrest areas. This comprised of 31% (n=12) of the arrested
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Key contd…
• 15% (n=6) are ARUs
• 36% (n=14) of arrests live in Multiple Use Programme (MUP) parishes
• 64% (n=25) of arrests live in non-MUP parishes
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MUP parishes Vs Non-MUP parishes
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Distance of fresh arrest residence from the park
• Frontier parishes (n=22)
• Non Frontier parishes (n=2)
• DRC (n=13)
• Tourists (n=02)
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Distance of fresh arrest residence from the park
• Arrests from villages far from the park undertake big forest products
• Arrests from frontier parishes undertake minor forest products such as firewood, salt sticks and bean stakes
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Frontier Villages Vs Others
Frontier Villages
Not Frontier-Uganda
Foreigners
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Elevation of fresh arrest data since August 2012
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Fresh arrests by Rangers since August 2012
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Key profiles of fresh arrests contd…
Ethnicity of fresh arrests
• Batwa (n=0)
• Bakiga (n=24)
• Bafumbira (n=0)
• Other locals (n=0)
• Congolese (n=13)
• Foreign tourists (n=2)
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Ethnicity %s
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Other key profile of fresh arrested individuals
Sex
• All the arrested were males
Age
• Youth (n=3)
• Adult (n=36)
Position in society
• Majority (n=9) have no position in society
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Other key profile contd…• All had knowledge on ICD mostly MUP and
crop raiding project.
• All had attended park meetings apart from one
• Farming is the main source of livelihood especially subsistence farming
• Were averagely ranked in ‘somewhat bad’ not ‘worst members’ of the community .So what drives them?
• Majority URUs have big families of either more than one wife or many children
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• Can we continue this social monitoring of resource use?
• Research to Policy