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Methodology - Diagnostic tool for assessing customary law applicable to wildlife
Description:
This methodology is developed to contribute to the achievement of “Result 1” of the Sustainable Wildlife
Management (SWM) Programme, namely, “improve the institutional and legal frameworks for sustainable
wildlife management”. It is designed to facilitate the use of the “diagnostic tool for assessing customary law
applicable to wildlife”, here also referred to as annex 3.
This tool provides an opportunity to identify, understand and document the rights of indigenous peoples and
local communities (IPLCs) to land1 and associated natural resources, such as wildlife, as well as the multiple
challenges associated with promoting the recognition of customary rights.2
1 Up to 50 percent of the world’s land is de facto managed by indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) (Land Portal
Foundation, 2019).
2 Drawing on seminal work on tree tenure by Berry, Fortmann and Rocheleau (Berry 1988; Fortmann, 1985; Fortmann and
Rocheleau 1985; Rocheleau and Edmunds, 1997), several insights into wildlife tenure can be drawn:
- Land and wildlife tenure are distinct but entangled.
- Rights to wildlife are multiple and overlapping.
- Wildlife tenure is flexible and dynamic.
See also:
- Méthodologie - Outil de diagnostic pour analyser les forces et faiblesses du cadre juridique national
- Méthodologie - Outil de diagnostic pour examiner la transposition des instruments internationaux pertinents pour la faune sauvage
- Méthodologie - Outil pour cartographier les instruments normatifs pertinents
- Méthodologie - Outil de diagnostic pour analyser le droit coutumier applicable à la faune sauvage
- Méthodologie - Outil de diagnostic pour identifier les obstacles à la mise oeuvre et/ou à l’application des lois et règlements relatifs à la faune sauvage
- Methodology - Diagnostic tool for identifying the barriers to implementation and/or enforcement of laws and regulations relevant to wildlife
- Methodology - Diagnostic tool for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the national legal framework
- Methodology - Diagnostic tool for reviewing domestication of international instruments relevant to wildlife
- Methodology - Tool for mapping relevant normative instruments