Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) TFCA

Change activity: Community based Natural resource management in KAZA TFCA:

building capacity for adaptive management in the change world
Progress to date:
The KAZA TFCA was represented in the trainings by Richard Aingura (Namibia),
Tachinya Molatole (Botswana), Patricia Kalipa (Zambia) and Tinaapi Hilary Madiri
(Zimbabwe). Communication with all the team members has been slow. However
the National TFCA Network coordinators have been mobilised in Zambia and
Zimbabwe in order to get some progress update from them and to support them.
Unfortunately the TFCA also was unable to nominate a candidate for the process
moderators course who perhaps could have catalysed action. The Zimbabwe
component has provided more feedback than the rest of the team.
On the Botswana side there were some organisational bottle-necks reported around
the mandate of the trained officer. The officer was advised by the mentoring team to
demonstrate to her supervisors how climate change fits as an integrated component
of community livelihoods development as it is a reality that cannot be ignored.
The Namibian participant has been out of reach despite repeated emails which were
unanswered and unsuccessful attempts to phone.
Several phone calls and emails were made with Ms Kalipa (Zambia) but no
substantial feedback has been received. The participant indicated that the lack of
contact with TFCA counterparts has been a bottle-neck for her preventing to proceed
with the change project. She has been encouraged to implement the project
component on her side and not to wait for the rest of the team especially in such a
vast TFCA.
On the Zimbabwean side the team decided on a holistic approach on climate
change adaptation. They followed through with training of 25 local community
members in conservation, sustainable hunting, fire management, and best
management practices at grassroots level. Trainings also involved grassroots
capacity in infrastructure development such as construction of boreholes because of
water shortages in the community. This training is part of a holistic approach in
integrating climate change adaptation and is progressing steadily. This is due to the
fact that climate change has an impact on the entire livelihood and there was a need
for diversified climate change adaptation strategies in order for the communities to
become more resilient.
Currently the TFCA is monitoring if there has been any impact in the changes
including progress among the 25 community members that have been trained.
Cross border communication and joint planning has been very slow, there has been
little communication and collaboration across the borders. There has been no
progress in terms of a joint CCA project yet.