Research to Policy: Final Research Workshop BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK (BINP) GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN 2013-2023

1. BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL
PARK (BINP)
GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN
2013-2023
The Community issues & Planned
activities for implementation
Presented by:
Kapere Richard
UWA

2. GMP building blocks
1. Identify major conservation values for the
PA
2. Review the protected area purpose
3. Identify management issues to address
during the planning period
Identify management objectives
Propose management programs and activities
Identify PA Management zones
Provide for Monitoring and evaluation
mechanism

3. The Planning Process
• Uses; an Interdisciplinary and
experienced Planning Team
• Through; an Interactive approach
• Considers; Community/
stakeholder involvement as key

4. Planning team for BINP GMP
(2013-2023)
Planning team(16members):
BINP Field
team-selected
staff
Planning
Unit-secretariat;
Kampala
ITFC, IGCP
Kisoro-
NGO
forum
Kanungu-
DEO
Kabale-
DNRO

5. STEPS Cont’
5. Stakeholder consultations (Data and information
gathering from outside the PA-Communities)
 District level
 Subcounty Level
 Resource users
6.National consultations (Kampala)
7. ………………………….
11.Presentation of draft plan to stakeholders
 Districts and
 Sub-county stakeholders

6. Major community issues
1. Crop raiding by Problem animals
2. Lack of compensation scheme
3. Poor Vermin control
4. Inadequate interventions to deal with PAM
5. Lack of an institutional home for HUGO
6. Lack of knowledge and skills by communities to generate
R/Sharing project proposals
7. Habituated Gorilla groups ranging on private land
8. Fixed/static empirical gorilla levy rate (percentages would be
appropriate)
9. Inadequate involvement of local leaders in community
sensitization.
10. Lack of integration between District development plans and BINP
Management Plan

7. Major community issues
11. Untimely release of Revenue Sharing money
12. Poor Identification of Gorilla levy projects
13. Local community dissatisfaction with the current revenue
sharing
14. Revenue sharing not benefiting people affected by the PA
15. Limited access to park resources
16. Un employment of the Batwa community-Benefits
17. Lack of physical plan implementation around Bwindi
18. Land shortage outside the park
19. Poor sanitation
20. Increasing pressure to habituate more Gorillas for tourism

8. Identified major actions
1. Construct and maintain barriers to control problem animals
2. Recruit and train standby problem animal guard squad near prone
areas
3. Develop and apply measures for rewarding exemplary community
performance in PAM
4. Equip and facilitate wildlife committees and HUGO teams with
resources and skills
5. Lobby and facilitate integration of PAM issues into sub country
and District development plans
6. Implement the revenue sharing policy
7. Identify and promote the multiplication (ex-situ) of forest
resources outside the park

9. Identified major actions
8. Engage the Local Government and other stakeholders to design
and implement strategies aimed at addressing human population
pressure around the PA.
9. Commission a study to undertake an economic valuation of BINP
10. Liaise with other stakeholders to develop and execute a common
awareness program (integrate awareness plans)
11. Work with Local Governments and other partners to improve
hygiene and sanitation.
12. Reactivate the stakeholders forum
13. Harmonize park plans with Local Government plans
14. Using Batwa, take an inventory of all medicinal plants for further
research and mapping
15. Involve the Batwa in establishing herbal demonstration sites
outside the park

10. Collaborative management (Zone)
• Management priority is to conserve the Park values through
an integrated approach encompassing protection, education,
restoration and community conservation approaches.
• Regulated harvesting of biophysical resources in a sustainable
manner by community residents is allowed in agreed
resource-use areas but only through negotiated collaborative
management agreements.
• Collaborative management agreements will clearly define the
resources to be used, the resource user community for each
agreement and the agreed resource-use area for that
community, together with the agreed control and monitoring
mechanisms.
• The zone shall be confined within 2km distance from the park
boundary where there are no tourism activities.

12. Good conservation planning will avoid situations of this
nature in future. THANK YOU
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