This conference in Lusaka, Zambia on 9-11 December 2024 brought together community leaders, government officials, policymakers development partners and academics to discuss Community-Based Natural Resources Management in Zambia. The discussions and resolutions made during this conference include strengthening community rights, mobilising resources, improving transparency and accountability, increasing data collection and management, advocacy, and many more. Read the full report here…
The new Community Leaders Network (CLN) strategic plan describes the pathway to impact that CLN will take over the next six years, in alignment with our vision and mission. This document also lays out a plan for achieving these goals through programme management and strategic fundraising.
In May 2023 the Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa (CLN) convened in Johannesburg, South Africa, to formulate their development strategy for the next six years. The workshop served as a platform for the CLN Board and key decision makers to collaboratively develop the framework of the strategy and a Theory of Change. Download the report here: (Africa Strategy Workshop Report.pdf)
The Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa (CLN) has participated in various national, regional and international fora during the year 2022, leaving significant impacts at every one of them. All these activities are in line with CLN’s mandate of ensuring that community members who actually live with wildlife on a daily basis are consulted in all decisions regarding management of wildlife and other natural resources. Community members participated at events such as CITES CoP19, CBD CoP15, APAC, UNEA 5 – amongst others.
Detailed report of activities can be accessed here: CLN Annual Report 2022
Please see report from the joint participation of CLN and Resource Africa at the 5th meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly.
See full report here CLN@UNEA 5 RAUK and CLN
Please download Position Paper on CITES CoP19 here: Position paper for CITES final
Open letter: Stop the hypocrisy – a call for the genuine inclusion of African communities in decisions about our wildlife
As representatives of millions of rural Africans who live alongside dangerous and charismatic wild
animals, we urgently call on international decision-makers to reject hypocritical laws and policies that
ignore African perspectives and trample our rights as custodians of our wildlife. It is time to stop talking
about African wildlife without Africans at the discussion table.
Please click here to access the CLN Constitution: CLN Constitution