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CONCURRENT SESSIONS A

 

Monday, 21 May from 13:50 to 15:20

 
a. How the Small NGO can Best Direct Public Funding toward Program Success
b. International and National Collaboration for Enhancing Sustainable Rural Community Livelihoods: Uganda
c. Making Tourism Work for the Poor
d. The Gaerezi Eco-Tourism Enterprise (GETE)
e. ViaVia Arusha: An African example of successful sustainable tourism development
 

Public-Private-NGO Partnerships and Alliances

 

Eli Weiss, Founder - Director , Wildize Foundation
“ How the Small NGO can Best Direct Public Funding toward Program Success ”

Rather than the standard approach of telling the Africans what they need, WildiZe Foundation asks our applicants, “How can we can help you help yourselves?”  WildiZe keys in on two critical challenges: how to get the grantees from where they are to where they want to be, and how to do away with the neo-colonial impression of “I am needy, I am poor, I am helpless.” With our grantees as full participants throughout the contract grant process, our projects have a much better chance of succeeding, while at the same time creating strong partnerships between the grantor, the grantee and the donor.  As a global community of valuable beings living in complex systems, bound by the common ground of our Earth, there are always commonalities upon which to base conceptual and contextual relationships for deeper understandings toward reconciliation––people-to-people and people-to-wildlife. Each of us is able to contribute to peace processes by taking Ownership, Accountability and Responsibility (OAR) for our actions, and by communicating this concept of stewardship to our family, our children, our neighbors and peers and by extension, visitors to our respective countries, towns and villages. 

Eli Weiss, founded the non-profit organization: WildiZe Foundation® in June of 2000. assisting over forty grantees ranging across the continent from Uganda , Zambia , Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya , Tanzania and Namibia . Depending on the needs of the locale, our programs work on the “A to Zs” of conservation which vary from providing infrastructure support to building schools to funding national park education/security efforts, all which are geared toward increasing innovative opportunities for development, agro and wildlife-based programs, along with providing scholarships for academically outstanding students.

The Gaerezi Eco-Tourism Enterprise (GETE)
The GETE is a community owned and operated tourism enterprise located in the foothills of the Nyangani Mountain Range in Eastern Zimbabwe . The community operates two two-bedroomed lodges that can accommodate six visitors (four privately) each and a campsite. The facility's main attractions are Trout Fly Fishing in the Gaerezi River , mountaineering and walking trails in the mountains. The Gaerezi River with its clean, serene and well aerated water provides the ideal habitat for the Rainbow Trout. The need to maintain the river water clean is discouraging all activities that result in the pollution of the river and the depletion of the fish populations.
Trained agriculturist who majored in Animal Science and Production and in Range Management. Has done agricultural extension work and community based natural resource management. Has interest in sustainable consumptive and non-consumptive use of natural resources for the benefit of rural communities. This includes adding value to natural resources for sale locally and in formal markets and benefit sharing mechanisms for community based enterprises and community based approaches to development.

Pauline Ngoya, Program Manager, African Pro-Poor Tourism Development Centre Making tourism work for the poor

Christine Dranzoa, Michael Campell, and John Bosco Nizeyi, Department of Wildlife and Animal Resources Management, Makerere University
International and National Collaboration for Enhancing Sustainable Rural Community Livelihoods: Uganda "

Christine Dranzoa, Michael Campell, and John Bosco Nizeyi, Department of Wildlife and Animal Resources Management, Makerere University

Noel Salazar, The Professional Tour Guide School
“ ViaVia Arusha: An African example of successful sustainable tourism development ”

His dissertation project focuses on the globalization and localization of tourism in Arusha , Tanzania , and Yogyakarta , Indonesia .

Noel B. Salazar, is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania
His tourism research interests include anthropology, the global-local nexus, transnational networks, tour guiding, development, and language. His multisited dissertation project focuses on the globalization and localization of tourism in Arusha , Tanzania , and Yogyakarta , Indonesia . Noel has written widely on tourism issues in academic journals as well as in publications for the general public, and this in countries as varied as Colombia , Belgium , Spain , Indonesia , the USA , and Australia .

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