This is the current version of the SADC TFCAs Programme. 

Further content will be added in due course. 

This document summarises the presentations and discussions held during the 2018 SADC TFCA Network Annual Meeting, hosted at the Southern African Wildlife College. 

The Khetha programme, funded by USAID Southern Africa and implemented through WWF-SA, has just released its first newsletter. 

A recent insightful South African report on the rhino crisis advocates that it is finally time to put theory into practice. Unless local communities on park borders are empowered, the fate of the rhino is bleak. 

Please find the article from the Daily Maverick, here. 

Lubombo TFCA is looking for consultants to conduct a Situational Analysis on the Mozambican part of the TFCA.

This Document contains all the documentation relevant to the meeting held in November 2017.

Please be aware that, besides the Agenda and the Minutes, as well as acts of national and international law, all other documents enclosed here may be sensitive. In this case, ask the document owners before disclosing with parties outside this group. 

This document is the second draft of the Terms of Reference for the Training and Capacity Building Community of Practice. This version needs to be updated following the meeting held in November 2017 and finalised by July 2018.

The first output of this project is a comprehensive review of existing legal mechanisms for M&E of Transboundary Conservation Initiatives (TCIs) and of existing frameworks and tools for M&E of TCIs. The analsys uses a Common Property Principle approach to frame Transboundary Natural Resources as common property, thus providing a set of relevant guidelines to create an M&E system that is cognisant of existing legal frameworks, tools and guidelines for the Southern African region, and the indicators thereof. 

This is a proposal which is a responsible tourism community based model, which has been tried and tested in KwaZulu Natal in South Africa for over 5 years. This would be great to look at and investigate methods of collaboration in developing linkages for SMMEs  in our line of work.

During the 2017 SADC TFCAs Network Meeting, the Consultant tasked to produce the M&E framework for the SADC TFCAs programme held a workshop to discuss and agree on the contents, structure, and outcomes of the Framework. The participants to the workshop were primarily the members of the SADC TFCAs Steering Committee, the SADC TFCAs Focal Points and the members of the M&E Community of Practice. The discussion and outcomes of the workshop are presented in this report.