Type
Environment
Local
Angola
State
Finished
Year
2015
Client
Ministério do Ambiente (MINAMB)
This study is part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) / Angola Government partnership.
The project was designed as the first phase of a more comprehensive national programme aimed at rehabilitating, strengthening and expanding Angola's protected area system. In this phase of the national programme, the project focused on results and activities - over a four-year period - at two levels: the national level and the local level.
At the local level, the project sought to rehabilitate a single protected area - one of the largest National Parks in Angola, the Iona National Park, with diversified landscapes, ecosystems and ecoregions across 15,150 km².
Such rehabilitation went through the following stages:
i - Creating, training and equipping a functional team;
ii - Renovation and construction of essential infrastructure (i.e. accommodation, offices, roads, water supply, solid waste and sewage management facilities, power supply network, fencing, etc.);
iii - Development of a management planning system; and
iv - experimental development of a cooperative governance framework.
Consulting services provided include an in-depth study of the profile of communities living in and around the park, especially a study of the impact of activities carried out by these communities and their livestock on biodiversity and the impact of wildlife on communities, determining possible conflicts.
This study focused on finding joint solutions to improve the balance between subsistence, public services, cultural needs of communities and biodiversity conservation needs of the park, as well as on determining and developing sustainable subsistence and training solutions associated with them, where members of local communities are trained through the participation in this consulting process and act as focal points for communication and future training of other members of these communities.
