ANNEX 1 – SUMMARIES OF CONTEMPORARY CONSERVATION & RESEARCH
AWF – African Wildlife Foundation: Kilimanjaro Heartland Mission/Objective The African Wildlife Foundation, together with the people of Africa, works to ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever. Description AWF recognizes the need to balance the conservation of Africa's landscapes and wildlife with the needs and aspirations of people. AWF also recognizes an essential ecological and economic reality: small, fragmented approaches to conservation will not succeed in conserving the wildlife landscapes so characteristic of Africa, nor will it yield sufficient economic returns to governments and their people. AWF therefore works in selected large landscapes, or 'Heartlands'. Heartlands are large, cohesive landscapes, which are biologically important and have the scope to maintain healthy natural processes and populations of wild species well into the future. Each Heartland forms a sizable economic unit in which tourism and other natural-resource activities can contribute significantly to local livelihoods. Most Heartlands include a combination of protected areas, community lands, and private lands - often across national borders. In each landscape, AWF works with the broadest range of partners to improve conservation and natural resource management and to lessen threats to the overall resource base. AWF interventions usually fall into six categories: • Land conservation • Conservation Enterprises
Principal(s) The AWF team in Kilimanjaro landscape is led by Paul Ntiati in the role of Heartland Coordinator. He coordinates AWF’s program both on the Kenyan and Tanzanian sides. Paul is a native of the region and specialises in community-based conservation, building on some 15 years of experience with various NGOs. Further technical assistance is supplied by an enterprise officer and an ecologist on the Kenyan side, and a community officer and elephant research team on the Tanzanian side. In addition, the team is able to draw on support personnel from both the Nairobi and Arusha offices for a range of technical skills as required, including legal, socio-economic, NRM planning, enterprise, policy etc. Location Office is located in Namanga, with additional support functions in Nairobi and Arusha. Timing AWF has been present in the Kilimanjaro landscape for the past 40 years. Funding source(s) Mainly multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors e.g. USAID, EU, Dutch Government plus foundations, individual donations etc. Institutional Affiliation Parent Body – AWF is registered as a Local NGO in Kenya. AWF-USA is registered as a 501(c)3 not for profit organisation. Main Partners – as below for ATE
• Capacity-building
Contact Info PO Box 48177-00100 Nairobi
• Support to protected areas
PO Box 20, Namanga
• Species applied research and protection • Policy advocacy and facilitation The Kilimanjaro Heartlands programme works with a spectrum of landowners across the landscape – both Kenya and Tanzania – focused on governance and land use planningzoning promises long-term ecological connectivity over a wide area – of the order of 1012 times the size of Amboseli National Park. The AWF presence in both Kenya and Tanzania has potential for support to trans-boundary efforts.
Products Quarterly AWF news-letters. Quarterly Kilimanjaro e-news updates. Various Working Papers.
[Source: R. Hatfield]
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