Chimanimani Conservation Area (Mozambique) Management Plan 2010

A revision of the existing Chimanimani Management Plan, using a participative methodology and where all the relevant stakeholders involved in the process of the management of the ChNR, as well as all of them functioning under the influence of the ChNR, are taken into consideration, and where all the relevant suggestions from the previous plans and the actual socio-economic and bio-ecological situations, are also included.

The methodology we implemented for the planning process is based on the so-called participative approach, formalized in 2003 by the guidelines published by the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of IUCN2. These are founded on the recognition that the “exclusive” and solely conservative approach used in the past to plan and manage all intervention in the field of conservation, shall now give space to the wider “inclusive” approach that can be summarized with the following points: • Integration of conservation objectives with those of development and improvement of the living conditions of local people; • Management based on a shared and consensual long term vision; • Decentralization and redistribution of tasks and responsibilities;

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• Chimanimani Management Plan
• Chimanimani Management Plan Intro and stratgey