Resource Africa
RESOURCE AFRICA
Resource Africa is an organisation with the mission of ensuring that the basic human right to sustainably use wildlife and other natural resources can be exercised by rural people in southern Africa.
JAMMA INTERNATIONAL
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Jamma is supporting Resource Africa to bring a voice to these communities and tell the story of how the equilibrium of sustainable wildlife management and guardianship can be supported and maintained.
Many rural people in southern Africa share their daily life with wildlife. Unfortunately this can negatively impact on those communities, with elephants breaking through boundaries, marauding and eating vital crops, lions and leopards killing livestock and, in the worst cases, wild animals injuring or even killing people.
Respecting rights, resources and livelihoods.
At Jamma we support Resource Africa to engage these communities as co-dependents in conservation and in the benefits that can be derived from it. Sustainable, community-based wildlife management and enterprise can benefit not only the rural communities and their future generations, but also help to conserve and support Africa’s wildlife habitats and ecosystems.
An important part of our work with Resource Africa is to advocate for dialogue and connection between the perspectives of local communities with policy making processes at international, regional and national levels.
We help to provide tools, strategies and programmes to empower communities to manage their land, water and wildlife in order to use these resources in a sustainable way to improve their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren. We help to build and support strong transparent governance and leadership, enabling the development of new economic enterprises within communities, such as tourism and community-owned game harvesting operations.
At Jamma, we share Resource Africa’s philosophy of people-centered conservation.
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