DATES: 09 TO 17 August 2010

PURPOSE STATEMENT
The course aims to provide the participant with in-depth knowledge and skills associated with Trans-Frontier Conservation Areas management. These Include:

• Use and apply trans-frontier conservation principles in support of the planning and implementation of shared conservation objectives
• Identify basic requirements and enabling conditions for TFCA development
• Identify stages in the process to develop and establish a TFCA and apply them to the TFCA in which they work
• Identify the potential constraints to TFCA development and management and potential ways in which to overcome them
• Understand institutional arrangements and ability to participate in the development of MoUs and Treaties, and planning processes for joint management
• Identify and evaluate roles of different stakeholders in TFCAs
• Identify potential sources of funding for TFCA development
• Evaluate the impact of SADC policies as it applies to Trans-Frontier Conservation development and objectives
• Identify and evaluate regional conservation development objectives in relation to the social, economic and environmental implications as it applies to Trans-Frontier conservation and a SADC perspective
• Evaluate the impact of Trans-Frontier conservation activities on tourism in the SADC region
• Identify and evaluate management opportunities and challenges in the developing of TFCAs
• Evaluate the benefits and impacts of TFCA development and management
• Historical overview of Trans-Frontier conservation from a SADC perspective
• Relevance of monitoring and evaluation in TFCAs

OBJECTIVE
At the end of the module the participants should be able to:

• Promote ecosystem integrity, biodiversity conservation and sustainable socio-economic development across international borders;
• Foster collaboration and co-operation between the involved countries and their mandated agencies to promote and implement ecosystem and cultural resource management through the establishment and development of the TFCA;
• Promote alliances and partnerships in various social, ecological, and economic aspects of the TFCA development, including with government, private sector, local communities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs);
• Enhance ecosystem integrity and natural ecological processes by harmonising wildlife management procedures across the international boundary / boundaries and between the different components of the TFCA
• Strive to remove artificial barriers or circumstances that inhibit natural movements of wildlife (where necessary and feasible);
• Facilitate cross-border nature-based tourism in order to promote regional socio-economic development
• Establish mechanisms to facilitate the exchange of technical, scientific, economic and legal information for the joint management of the ecosystem

Develop frameworks and strategies for local communities to participate meaningfully in, and tangibly benefit from, the management and sustainable use of natural and cultural resources that occur within the TFCA.

COST:
This course costs R7500.00 per person for a minimum group size of 10 people. It includes all accommodation, meals, course learning material & training at the Southern African Wildlife College excluding transportation to and from the college.

WHO CAN ATTEND?
The TFCA Management course is aimed at a broad target market and would be beneficial to any of the following:

• Wildlife managers and co-ordinators in TFCAs
• People in leadership or supervisory roles within SADC conservation agencies
• Representatives from the private sector associated with TFCA management
• Individuals from community based organizations associated with TFCA management

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