First published on 10/26/2017, and last updated on 03/26/2018
By: Vincent Ziba, Regional Coordinator for East and Southern Africa
In March 2017, some 30 participants in representation of local communities, civil society, government and the ICCA Consortium gathered for an ICCA National Workshop co-convened by the Zambia Community Based Natural Resources Management Forum, GEF SGP Zambia and the ICCA Consortium.
After sharing information on ICCAs in general and on the history and conditions related to ICCAs in the country, the participants focused on the situation of ICCAs in four defined Zambian regions: 1) Western and North-western, 2) Copper belt, Central and Southern provinces, 3) Lusaka and Eastern provinces and 4) Northern, Muchinga and Luapula provinces.
From that situational analysis, the necessity to formalize a Zambian Working group on ICCA arose. It was also clear that there is a need to guide relevant custodian communities to identify the kind of support they need to strengthen their ICCAs. In this context, the ICCA Global Support Initiative will be able to provide assistance to emblematic ICCAs. The CBNRM will serve as the catalytic organisation in Zambia, as foreseen by the current project agreement with GEF SGP. The national workshop was followed by a field mission that started using the Consortium guidance for ICCA Self-strengthening.
Please find more information in the report of the workshop, the report of the field visit and the Consortium guidance for ICCA Self-strengthening, available on line in three languages. For more information, please contact Vincent at vincent.ziba@iccaconsortium.org.
