Levels of community participation and satisfaction with decentralized wildlife management in Idodi-Pawaga wildlife management area, Tanzania

Kiwango, W. A.; Komakech, H. C.; Tarimo, T. M.; Martz, L.

dc.creator	Kiwango, W. A.
dc.creator	Komakech, H. C.
dc.creator	Tarimo, T. M.
dc.creator	Martz, L.
dc.date	2020-03-20T06:21:41Z
dc.date	2020-03-20T06:21:41Z
dc.date	2018
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-20T13:09:14Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-20T13:09:14Z
dc.identifier	Kiwango, W. A., Komakech, H. C., Tarimo, T. M., & Martz, L. (2018). Levels of community participation and satisfaction with decentralized wildlife management in Idodi-Pawaga Wildlife Management Area, Tanzania. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 25(3), 238-248. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504509.2017.1378750
dc.identifier	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504509.2017.1378750
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2239
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2239
dc.description	Abstract. Full Text Article available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504509.2017.1378750
dc.description	Participatory approaches to conservation are viewed as a plausible alternative to the old ‘fortress conservation’ approach. The design and implementation of these approaches in developing countries have tended to embrace community participation through decentralized governance mechanisms in the past three decades. However, sustainable conservation approaches that maintain community livelihoods while conserving biodiversity are challenged with meeting both objectives. In addressing this challenge, little attention has been given to empirical analysis of community’s satisfaction levels on how they participated in the design and implementation of this approach. In this paper, we use a mixed method approach-using both quantitative and qualitative data to examine levels of satisfaction and participation of local communities in the Idodi-Pawaga Wildlife Management Area (WMA), south-western Tanzania. We find that social economic factors (e.g. age, household size, gender, number of years living in the same location and participation/non-participation) influence, in different ways, the satisfaction levels of community’s participation towards the WMA creation. Due to inadequate participation, we find that the WMA design and implementation process failed from the beginning to actively involve the local communities and this has resulted in the near absence of the promised economic benefits from wildlife conservation. We suggest that it is important to actively engage communities from the beginning of any WMA program, and take into consideration their levels of satisfaction with the process of decision making, if meaningful decentralized governance is to be achieved.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Taylor & Francis
dc.subject	Participation
dc.subject	Decentralized governance
dc.subject	Satisfaction levels
dc.subject	Communities
dc.subject	Wildlife management
dc.subject	Fortress conservation
dc.subject	Sustainable conservation
dc.subject	Community livelihoods
dc.subject	Wildlife conservation
dc.title	Levels of community participation and satisfaction with decentralized wildlife management in Idodi-Pawaga wildlife management area, Tanzania
dc.type	Article