Local Natural Resource Governance: Feb. 28, 2008

Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of :

The Power of Local Natural Resource Governance in Conflict Contexts
featuring

Kent Glenzer, Director of Program Impact, Knowledge, and Learning, CARE USA; Research Associate, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, Emory University

Masego Madzwamuse, Country Programme Coordinator, World Conservation Union (IUCN) Botswana

Thursday, February 28, 2008
12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org.

Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.

Recent field work has shown that natural resource-based governance structures such as community forest user groups and wildlife conservancies can not only improve sustainable ecosystem management and livelihoods, but also provide stability during violent conflict and offer a basis for improved governance, especially at the local level.

This event will explore how natural resource management (NRM) and conservation interventions can contribute to conflict prevention and mitigation. Presentations will analyze what has and has not worked in the past; how NRM and conservation programs can be designed and implemented to best leverage their potential governance benefits; and how to demonstrate that NRM interventions indeed contribute to improved governance.

Kent Glenzer of CARE will present the Strengthened Actions for Governance in Utilization of Natural Resources (SAGUN) project in Nepal. He will be joined via telephone by SAGUN Program Director Maksha Maharjan. Masego Madzwamuse of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) will describe the Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) Support Programme in Botswana. A third speaker will provide an overview of the issues, including a look at how the theory and practice have changed over time.

This is the second event in ECSP’s “New Horizons at the Nexus of Conflict, Natural Resources, and Health” series, which examines new thinking and research at the intersection of these areas. This series is funded jointly by USAID’s Office of Natural Resources Management, its Office of Population and Reproductive Health, and its Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, with technical support from USAID’s Asia and Near East and Africa bureaus. For more information on this series, please visit www.wilsoncenter.org/newhorizons.

If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.

Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th Floor Conference Room. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Due to heightened security, entrance to the building will be restricted and photo identification is required. Please allow additional time to pass through security.