Research paper

Here is the overview of the paper by Prof Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole and Dimpho Pheto Segwabe titled ''A tale of two groups of Community Trusts: why they succeeded and failed''.

Overview: Community based natural resource management (CBNRM) is a strategy devised to promote biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods. Community Trusts (CTs) thus serve as the tool for achieving CBNRM objectives of natural resources conservation and poverty alleviation. The paper makes a comparative analysis of two groups of community trusts (CTs) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana; those that were effective in rural development (RD) project implementation and those that were ineffective. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used in selecting the study population. While two effective and two ineffective CTs were purposely sampled, all available committee/Board of Trustees (BoT) members of each of the 4 Trusts were interviewed through questionnaire survey. One hundred and twenty community members (aged 18 years and above) were interviewed using interview schedules. Qualitative data were obtained through focus group discussions and key informant interview.