The document summarizes the Senegal Wula Nafaa program, which uses the Nature, Wealth, and Power framework to promote sustainable natural resource management and rural development. The program aims to reduce poverty by increasing revenues for local communities and empowering local populations to participate in managing local resources. It outlines targets for community enterprises, community benefits, rights and responsibilities, and policies. It also provides examples of how the framework is applied to manage common lands and classified forests.
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1. Senegal Ag/NRM Program
"Wula Nafaa“
Design and Implementation based on the
Nature Wealth and Power Framework
Bob Winterbottom
International Resources Group April 4, 2007
2. Senegal’s Wula Nafaa Program
• Wula: The Bush
• Nafaa: Interest, Richness, Value
• Thus: “The Value of the Bush"
3. Nature, Wealth, Power Provides the Strategic Framework
for Wula Nafaa
Power: Political support
for just, democratic and
transparent government,
local participation,
empowerment and
benefit distribution.
Wealth: Enhanced
business management,
credit, market access,
profitability, economic
incentives, fiscal policies
and cost benefit analysis
Nature: Efficient local
approaches that promote
improved NRM and
sustainable farming, livestock
raising and resource use
4. What is NWP?
• A discussion paper based on
lessons learned from CBNRM
experience in Africa (particularly
forestry, wildlife and agriculture)
• Information aimed at enhancing
the debate on rural development
and natural resource
management in Africa
• A tool to support policy dialogue
• An analytical framework to
support the design of more
comprehensive rural strategies
and more effective program
interventions
5. Some Definitions and Links
POWER
Environmental
governance is the distribution,
exercise, and accountability of
power and authority over nature.
For rural Africans a major governance issue
is control and access to resources
WEALTH
Natural capital is the basis for rural
production and economic systems, and
in most African economies, it is the
single most important non-human economic
asset. Investments in natural capital have a high
rate of return at the national level.
NATURE
Resources – land, water, forests, wildlife –
are dynamic, socially embedded,
economic and political. Human institutions
define resources and their use.
7. NWP Principles – Nature / Resources
1. Improve information and knowledge management
systems
2. Promote land use planning and appropriate resource
tenure systems
3. Foster social learning, innovation and adaptive
management
4. Build capacity and invest in human resources
5. Promote cost-effective technical advisory and
intermediary services
8. NWP Principles – Wealth / Economics
1. Be strategic about the economics of natural
resources management
2. Strengthen markets and make market incentives a
more important part of NRM strategies
3. Invest in rural organizations as the long-term
“building blocks” of rural development
4. Create a framework in which people can make better
NRM choices in their own self-interest
5. Assure that resource managers have secure access
to the means of production and the benefits of their
NRM investments
9. NWP Principles – Power / Governance
1. Strengthen procedural rights for rural people
2. Improve rural representation and amplify the voices of
the poor and hungry in public decisions that affect their
lives and well being
3. Distribute environmental authority and functions to
institutions best positioned to exercise them
4. Transfer environmental powers to representative and
accountable authorities
5. Explore minimum environmental standards
6. Encourage checks and balances, pluralistic approaches
and conflict management
10. Objectives of the Wula Nafaa Program
• To contribute to the reduction of poverty and
promotion of sustainable local development by:
– Increasing revenues of local beneficiaries and
local collectivities
– the empowerment of local populations
– the promotion of integrated, decentralized and
participative management of local resources
11. • Increased number of new or existing NR-based enterprises that
show increased, measurable revenues in areas targeted by the
AG/NRM program
• Increased number of new or existing non-traditional AG
enterprises that show increased, measurable revenues in areas
targeted by the AG/NRM program
• Number of new or existing NR or NTA based enterprises in areas
targeted by the AG/NRM program that show increased,
measurable revenues AND have applied training to develop
business plans and marketing strategies, adopted improved
production, harvesting and/or value-added processing
techniques, and negotiated joint ventures with external partners
• Number of enterprise groups benefiting from initial training by the
facilitators
Wula Nafaa Community Benefits Component
Contractual Targets
12. Wula Nafaa Community Benefits Component -
Contractual Targets (cont.)
• Cumulative number of enterprise groups assisted by the
facilitators (program support)
• Number of market surveys and studies to identify potentially
marketable AG/NRM products.
• Number of grading schemes and value-added processes
developed to increase revenue and income to producers per
unit of production.
• Increase in level of revenues by assisted group enterprises
• Increase in volume / number of products marketed by
assisted group enterprises
13. • Increased number of communities/CBOs that have undertaken
community-led activities to increase productivity of NR sustainably
• Increased number of communities/CBOs that have engaged in formal
co-management relationships (joint ventures, etc.) with actors and
institutions external to the community to increase productivity of NR
sustainably
• Increased number of hectares that are covered by legally recognized,
community managed sustainable NRM plans
• Resource assessment and mapping/GIS capabilities strengthened at
the regional level
• Number of communities/CBOs that have developed CBNRM plans,
protocols, agreements and local codes governing access, use and
protection of NR
• Number of communities receiving training in NR monitoring,
enforcement of local codes and conflict management
Wula Nafaa Rights and Responsibilities Component –
Contractual Targets
14. Wula Nafaa Policy Component –
Contractual Targets
• Reduced legal, regulatory or administrative barriers
• Verifiable, sustained processes of consultation
between communities and sub-national / national
governmental offices and the private sector;
• Preparation and dissemination of assessments,
studies, analyses related to the policy reform agenda
• Development of tools and information systems to
support the policy component
15. Application of NWP: Management of Common Land
2. Deliberation on local rights and
responsibilities POWER
3. Installation of local conventions
and training on proper
management techniques NATURE
1. Organization of producers and
marketing of high potential
products WEALTH
• Products: Non timber forest and agricultural products
16. Application of NWP: Management of Classified Forests
1. Delimitation of forest/ collaborative
management rights clarified POWER
2. Management plan elaborated
NATURE
3. Marketing of high potential
products identified by
inventory WEALTH
• Products: Woody products/ NTFPs / Wildlife hunting