An overview of integrated conservation and development in Uganda

Twinamatsiko, Medard; Baker, Julia; Franks, Phil; Infield, Mark; Olsthoorn, Fanny; Roe, Dilys

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“…Uganda and Rwanda are the only countries in Africa to have formal tourism-revenue sharing (TRS) policies that prescribe a specific amount to be shared. Research has been conducted (Ahebwa et al, 2012;Tumusiime and Vedeld, 2012;Franks and Twinamatsiko, 2017;Twinamatsiko et al, 2018;Kambagira, 2019) on the tourism revenue-sharing programme (TRSP) in Uganda and has highlighted various challenges as well as benefits from the programme. The majority of the research either focused on one national park or community, rather than the TRSP as a whole.…”

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Benefit-sharing from protected area tourism: A 15-year review of the Rwanda tourism revenue sharing programme

Snyman

Fitzgerald

Bakteeva

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Tour.

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The success of protected areas depends to a large degree on the support of local communities living in and around these areas. Research has shown that where communities receive tangible and/or intangible benefits, from protected areas they are often more supportive of conservation. Rwanda introduced a tourism revenue sharing policy in 2005 to ensure that local communities receive tangible benefits specifically from protected area tourism and to enhance trust between the Rwanda Development Board (the then Rwanda Office of Tourism and National Parks) and local communities, and to incentivize the conservation of wildlife and protected areas. This study reviewed the tourism revenue sharing programme over the last 15 years, including primary and secondary data, which included interviewing more than 300 community members living around three national parks, as well as other relevant stakeholders. The results show that the tourism revenue sharing programme has resulted in a positive linkage between the national parks and development. Since 2005, ~80% of the funding was used for infrastructure and education projects. The funds are distributed through local community cooperatives, and most local people who are members of these cooperatives had received or were aware of tangible benefits received by the community and tended to have more positive attitudes toward tourism and the national parks. Despite a large amount of tourism revenue being disbursed over the 15-year period, there are still challenges with the programme and the overall impact could be enhanced. Recommendations as to how to address these are presented.

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Benefit-sharing from protected area tourism: A 15-year review of the Rwanda tourism revenue sharing programme

Snyman

Fitzgerald

Bakteeva

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Tour.

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Understanding complex drivers of wildlife crime to design effective conservation interventions

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Mwedde

et al. 2019

Conservation Biology

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In conservation understanding the drivers of behavior and developing robust interventions to promote behavioral change is challenging and requires a multifaceted approach. This is particularly true for efforts to address illegal wildlife use, where pervasive—and sometimes simplistic—narratives often obscure complex realities. We used an indirect questioning approach, the unmatched count technique, to investigate the drivers and prevalence of wildlife crime in communities surrounding 2 national parks in Uganda and combined scenario interviews and a choice experiment to predict the performance of potential interventions designed to tackle these crimes. Although poverty is often assumed to be a key driver of wildlife crime, we found that better‐off households and those subject to human–wildlife conflict and those that do not receive any benefits from the parks’ tourism revenue sharing were more likely to be involved in certain types of wildlife crime, especially illegal hunting. The interventions predicted to have the greatest impact on reducing local participation in wildlife crime were those that directly addressed the drivers including, mitigating damage caused by wildlife and generating financial benefits for park‐adjacent households. Our triangulated approach provided insights into complex and hard‐to‐access behaviors and highlighted the importance of going beyond single‐driver narratives.

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An overview of integrated conservation and development in Uganda

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Benefit-sharing from protected area tourism: A 15-year review of the Rwanda tourism revenue sharing programme

Benefit-sharing from protected area tourism: A 15-year review of the Rwanda tourism revenue sharing programme

Understanding complex drivers of wildlife crime to design effective conservation interventions

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