Institutional Development Working Group (IDWG)

The IDWG works closely with conservancies, support organisations, government and the private sector.

Its overall objective is to:

• Strengthen conservancies' operations and services
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The IDWG operates through a network of sub-groups:

• Financial Management
• HIV/AIDS
• Constitutions
• Communication and Participation
• Research
• Skills and Knowledge Development

Secondary objectives include:

• Improved conservancy governance
• Capacity building and training within support organisations and conservancies
• Improved internal and external conservancy communication
• Increased conservancy benefits to members
• Increased ownership and commitment to CBNRM by Namibia's rural communities

Aims

• Identify, develop and ensure implementation of appropriate tools, mechanisms, systems and methods to support the establishment of institutional arrangements at the CBO level that lead to socially, environmentally and economically sustainable decision-making.
• Build capacity and skills of support organisation field staff. This will assist them to enable conservancies to manage their natural resources in a sustainable, effective, efficient and transparent way, and thereby maximise benefits to conservancy members.

Key Activities

• Promote coordination of support by government, support organisations and private sector
• Promote democratisation of conservancies by developing mechanisms for broad community participation
• Develop locally appropriate performance monitoring and evaluation systems
• Improve capacity of institutional development and delivery within the CBNRM Programme
• Develop training materials and co-facilitate training of trainers process
• Develop, test, monitor, evaluate and roll out institutional development approaches, processes, methodologies and systems

• Ensure and conduct ongoing mentoring and support to field based support organisation staff
• Develop linkages with relevant institutions for effective lobbying
• Mainstream HIV/AIDS in CBNRM activities
• Act as a forum for discussion and debate on institutional development issues
• Act as a forum for learning and exchanging practical, methodological experiences from the field
• Promote more cost effective and accountable service delivery and management systems in conservancies
• Conduct research on critical conservancy management and development issues identified by conservancies and stakeholders
• Collaborate with other government ministries, such as MLRR and MAWF, on issues of common concern

Download a poster on the IDWG

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IDWG Co-ordinator

Ronny Dempers
Tel: +264 238003

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