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324 Sport hunting of elephant in Zimbabwe: a case study of Kanyurira Ward in Guruve district

known as the CAMPFIRE Collaborative Group. While the CAMPFIRE Association

represents the interests of those rural district councils that have been granted

Appropriate Authority, the other NGOs in the collaborative group offer technical

support and services to councils and wildlife producer communities responsible

for implementing CAMPFIRE.

There has been considerable outside support for the Guruve Rural District

Council and the Kanyurira Ward Wildlife Committee under CAMPFIRE—mainly

by NGOs who have relied heavily on donor assistance (Table 2). Financial support

has enabled the erection of wildlife fencing, while training, technical backup,

and workshops have been held under the auspices of the CAMPFIRE Association.

Agency

CAMPFIRE Association

Department of National

Parks and Wildlife

Management

Ministry of Local

Government, Rural and

Urban Development

ACTION

Africa Resources Trust

Centre for Applied Social

Studies

World Wide Fund for Nature

Zimbabwe Trust

Technical support and services

Lead agency in the CAMPFIRE Collaborative Group; provides

a secretariat for members and represents them regionally,

nationally and internationally

Provides an enabling framework for the national wildlife

industry and sets sport hunting quotas

Supports rural district councils that have been granted

Appropriate Authority

A local NGO that develops and provides educational and

training material for wildlife producer communities

Promotes the sustainable use of natural resources at a

domestic, regional and international level

Socio-economic research on community-based natural

resource management

Ecological and economic support and training of councils

and wildlife producer communities

Development of community-based organisations and

institutions to manage their own natural resources

Table 2. Technical support and services provided by government representa-

tives and NGOs to councils with Appropriate Authority

Source: Bond 1999.

Note: The political and economic turmoil in Zimbabwe, since the study was carried out, has

seen the withdrawal of international assistance and the demise of the campfire programme.

In 1992, WWF, through the Support to CAMPFIRE Project, initiated a

‘participatory technology development’ approach in three selected

communities in the Zambezi Valley, including Kanyurira. This approach was

designed to develop sustainable and rigorous methods of natural resource and

project management by the communities themselves. Through the project,

Kanyurira benefited from infrastructural development (fencing, workshops, etc.)

as well as through intensive training and extension courses for the community.

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