Resource Africa supports rural African community efforts to secure their rights to access and use their natural resources in order to sustain their livelihoods. We help to build strong platforms for collaboration, knowledge and skills sharing among community-based organisations and other stakeholders across southern Africa and beyond.
We believe that when rights are upheld and incentives for conservation are provided to those who live with wildlife there will be positive conservation outcomes benefitting people and nature. We therefore support joint advocacy initiatives to ensure community voices are heard on international platforms where decisions are made that materially affect their lives.
Empowered and motivated communities effectively exercising their rights to sustainably manage, benefit from, and conserve their natural resources.
To support southern African communities’ efforts to exercise their rights and enjoy thriving livelihoods by promoting global, regional, and national commitments and actions towards policy, market and legal reforms that secure local people’s rights to own, control and benefit from natural resources, especially land, wildlife, forests and water.
We focus on the following four pillars of community-led, people-centred conservation:
