Integrated Ecosystem Management in Namibia through the National Conservancy Network

The project aims to conserve , manage and utilize the globally important vast and diverse but fragile biological diversity found within Namibia for improved rural and sustainable economic development, through participatory, integrated and innovative management approaches. This will be achieved through enhancing the capacity of Namibia's National Conservancy Program to support the establishment and operation of self sustaning conservancies and other legally recognized entities. The project will also seek to establish a long term self sustaining mechanism to provide the financial resources to support over the long term , the conservation of biological diversity through the conservancy program.