Research to Policy: Final Research Workshop Research to Policy: Capacity Building for Conservation Through Poverty Alleviation

1. Research to Policy:
Capacity Building for Conservation Through
Poverty Alleviation
Research to Policy Workshop
September 17-18 2013, Metropole-
Kampala, Uganda

2. Background information
• Ranger Based Monitoring Program (RBMP)has a
good database on ‘where and what’ for illegal
activities
• The ‘who and why’ remain unanswered
• Conservation Through Poverty Alleviation (CTPA)
project launched the collection of ‘fresh arrest data’
from August 2012 to document and understand the
profiles and motivations of Unauthorised Resource
Users (URUs)

3. Background Information
• Fresh arrests from August 2012 to February 2013
were interviewed (n=12)
• Collected and analyzed the available socioeconomic
data from August 2012 to July 2013 (n=39)
• Total number by July 2013 (n=39)
• These are not the only URU but those arrested by
UWA rangers
• There are minor differences with records of law
enforcement

4. Key profile on the location of arrest and
residence of fresh arrested individuals
• 62% (n=15) places of illegal activity are
places of arrest. This comprised of 69%
(n=27) of the arrested
• 38% (n= 9) places of illegal activity
were different from arrest areas. This
comprised of 31% (n=12) 70
of the
arrested
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Same
location
Different
location
Total number
arrested

5. Key contd…
• 15% (n=6) are ARUs
• 36% (n=14) of arrests live in Multiple Use
Programme (MUP) parishes
• 64% (n=25) of arrests live in non-MUP
parishes

6. MUP parishes Vs Non-MUP
parishes
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1
MUP parishes
Not MUP parishes

7. Distance of fresh arrest residence
from the park
• Frontier parishes (n=22)
• Non Frontier parishes (n=2)
• DRC (n=13)
• Tourists (n=02)

8. Distance of fresh arrest residence
from the park
• Arrests from villages far from the park
undertake big forest products
• Arrests from frontier parishes undertake
minor forest products such as firewood, salt
sticks and bean stakes

9. Frontier Villages Vs Others
Frontier Villages
Not Frontier-Uganda
Foreigners

10. Elevation of fresh arrest data since August 2012

11. Fresh arrests by Rangers since August 2012

12. Key profiles of fresh arrests contd…
Ethnicity of fresh arrests
• Batwa (n=0)
• Bakiga (n=24)
• Bafumbira (n=0)
• Other locals (n=0)
• Congolese (n=13)
• Foreign tourists (n=2)

13. Ethnicity %s
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Batwa Bakiga Bafumbira Other locals Congolese Foreign tourists
Frequency
%

14. Other key profile of fresh arrested
individuals
Sex
• All the arrested were males
Age
• Youth (n=3)
• Adult (n=36)
Position in society
• Majority (n=9) have no position in society

15. Other key profile contd…
• All had knowledge on ICD mostly MUP and
crop raiding project.
• All had attended park meetings apart from
one
• Farming is the main source of livelihood
especially subsistence farming
• Were averagely ranked in ‘somewhat bad’
not ‘worst members’ of the community .So
what drives them?
• Majority URUs have big families of either
more than one wife or many children

16. • Can we continue this social monitoring of
resource use?
• Research to Policy