Community Participation
The Region TPDUP make at most effort to benefit local communities by providing a wide range of job opportunities (permanent & temporary) in the wildlife conservation area operating in the region.
The Region is actively engaged in the social and economic welfare of people who are living around the wildlife protected areas by making the wildlife areas the local engine of economic growth and development, and ensure that local communities benefit directly in the opportunities created by wildlife protected area management. In particular ensuring local communities direct participation and acquiring benefit from the wildlife conservation activities.
To this end, the SNNPRS is the first Region in the country to declare a regulation, on the revenue generated from wildlife resources, and realize community benefit sharing scheme. This legal frame work has ensured the legal rights of local communities to acquire their share from the tourist revenue generated from the wildlife protected areas. Owing to these conditions, Local communities of many wildlife protected areas have started to protect their wildlife resources and control illegal activities prevailing in their areas. According to, the Region tourist attraction sites Revenue Utilization Regulation the total annual revenue generated from each wildlife conservation areas (National Park, Controlled Hunting Areas) will be divided/shared to the respective stakeholders at the end of every year. Accordingly, 35 % (of the total revenue) goes to the local communities living around the attractions, 35% to the development of the conservation areas (the attraction sites) 15% for the respective Woreda /district/, and 10% for Zonal admin and 10% to the Region TPDUP.
The region TPDUP would aware the total amount of annual revenue collected and the share breakdown for all stakeholders (local communities, zones and Wereda/district) at the end of each budget year. The Region TPDUP would release the financial share to each of the stakeholders based on their submitted development project proposal to the region TPDUP. The local communities with the support of their respective zone and Woreda admin bodies as well as expertise would identify development ideas and prepare project proposal and submit to the region wildlife department so as to get their annual financial share of wildlife revenue. The region wildlife department experts are responsible to supervise the implementations of the projects and provide technical assistance for the Zonal, Weredas and local community |
