Description:

The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme in the Kavango-Zambezi (KaZa) site promotes Community Conservancies as a way to improve land-use planning and management.  The KaZa Project is coordinated by the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD).  In Zambia, CIRAD is implementing the project activities in partnership with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

The SWM Programme is developing innovative solutions based on field projects in thirteen countries. It is a seven-year (2018-2024) Organisation of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) initiative, which is being funded by the European Union with co-funding from the French Facility for Global Environment. It is the first international initiative to tackle the wild meat challenge by addressing both wildlife conservation and food security. The SWM Programme mobilizes an international group of partner organizations with strong expertise and experience in wildlife conservation, food security and policy development. It is implemented through a consortium partnership, which includes the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CIFOR, CIRAD and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).