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Uncover a traditional knowledge success story.
"The community should be trusted." That's the advice of John Kasaona, a world-changing conservationist who wants to see local communities put in charge of solving their own environmental problems, and empowered to conserve their own natural resources.
Kasaona grew up watching his father hunt and kill endangered animals in in the Kunene Region of Namibia, in order to put food on the table for his family. But today, Kasaona's father is no longer a poacher. Instead, he works to protect the same animals in Namibia, as part of a community-organized effort to build up wildlife tourism in the region.
"Some conservationists try to protect rhinos and elephants by keeping local people away from these animals," Kasaona says. "But the best way to save endangered beasts is to let villagers own them. They should be able to protect them or eat them as they choose." Kasaona believes that local communities will make smart choices, if they are empowered to reap the rewards.
"Why? Because keeping the animal population alive proves more valuable to the village in the long-run. It helps them bring in tourism money and to take pride in the wildlife all around them."
"You don’t need a university degree to understand this. People take care of what they own. If they benefit from something, they value it."
Kasaona is part of a growing global movement, dedicated to empowering local communities to put their indigenous knowledge to good use. The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, or the CBNRM Net for short, is helping track and guide the movement in more than 70 countries around the world.
Your mission this week is to find out more about the movement to put traditional knowledge to better use -- and help spread its vision for the future.
Your objective:
Uncover a community management success story from the CBNRM Net's collection of more than 250 case studies from 75 countries.
Or, pick an indigenous knowledge case study from the KIVU (Knowlege, Imagery, Vision, and Understanding) Project for Indigeneous Knowledge.
Pick out what YOU think is the most important lesson from the case study and share it with the EVOKE network in a blog post, video or photo essay.
Super-objective: If you want to make an extra heroic effort this week, see if you can find follow-up information on the same case from another source. Bring the EVOKE network completely up to date on your success story.
This objective is worth +12 local insight.
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Comment by Jonathan Levin on May 12, 2010 at 10:48am
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In 1998, the USA's Bureau of Reclamation which was tasked with developing water and later power infrastructures in arid lands accross America, set out to write a guidebook on decision-making. The idea was to help cut down on regulations by giving people a reference to justify their actions - "We are doing it this way and here is why.".
I would like to take the lesson from this case study and apply it to rural villages in arid lands across the world.
For the example for this assignment, a proverb was mentioned: "When an elder dies, a library burns."
My idea would be that for each village or tribe, a delegation would be sent to meet other delegations of other local villages and tribes.
There they can record and discuss how to improve certain skills and knowledge that could be in the area of agriculture, resource conservation and health. At the end of the meeting, they can take with them notes, doc**ents or books and share their knowledge with their village or tribe.
Ideally, the government of that country should sponsor this and in addition, keep the topic about sharing knowledge and not politics.
The meeting could be arranged annually or twice annually, depending on the situation.
I would also suggest, that the data that was discussed be saved and stored in an electronic format for more people to benefit from it.
An example: indiginous tribes in Australia have uploaded their local language into Google translate so that it can be saved for many years to come and not be slowly forgotten.
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Comment by bakshi asuman on April 28, 2010 at 7:45pm
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in uganda a survey was carried in 2002 and realisied that most youth were not acredited with indenginous knowledge to me its a big challenge because you have to intergrate it with the mordern norms.
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Comment by Bayan Waleed Shadaideh on April 26, 2010 at 9:28pm
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Indiginous knowledge has reached the threshold in which is should expand beyond individual cases and develop a holistic perspective. The many painful cases that all agents are discussing are a perfect example to begin weighing this factor as an essential element for Human Rights and Development.
Over and over again in history it has been proven that Identity and all that it encompa**** is an undefeatable power that has the ability of recreating itself through several forms. It is about time we stop spinning around in the same circle and develop through the creative power of indiginous knowledge, let alone protect it.
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The eco-system of the nature is preserved by preserving the nature itselft. I would also like to comment that the best way to keep the rare spieces and animal by becoming more and more friendly towards the tribes and peoples who live along with these spieces and animals and by training and advising them by benefits of preserving these natures and there by safeguarding the nature which can be utilised to reap the benefit out of it.
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Comment by NANGAR SOOMRO on April 23, 2010 at 10:34am
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I consider Local Solution based on local knowledge is the ultimate answer of our problems. I am person field, when I do for missions I learn a lot and come to know that the true wisdom is burried their we have just to explore and renew it. I am upto this guys !
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Comment by mustafaa hudspeth on April 22, 2010 at 4:56pm
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how do you do this mission
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Comment by A.V.Koshy on April 22, 2010 at 5:24am
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i love what you've shared here gmoke....
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Comment by gmoke on April 22, 2010 at 3:39am
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I don't know if this is in your databases but I just spent a couple of hours at MIT listening to African, American, and Indian partners with Amy Smith's D-Lab. Harish Hande of SELCO, Solar Electric Light Company, from Karnatika, India talked about his work. I've heard him before (and written about it at http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/7/144344/036 ) but this time he drilled deeper into what SELCO actually does. They don't concentrate on the technology but on the community. They listen to what their customers, the poorest, need and try to find ways to supply them, for the long term. His greatest lesson came from a street vendor who said, "300 rupees a month is too expensive but 10 rupees a day I can afford." From that insight, SELCO developed their system of lending which seems to involve a daily payment rather than a monthly or quarterly payment.
He believes his business is in understanding what a street vendor needs as opposed to a home worker as opposed to a village farmer as opposed to a laundress. Harish Hande knows that the knowledge comes from the customer, the client, and he has to listen very, very hard. That's indigenous knowledge and it works on a NYC street or an Indian village. Get rid of your preconceptions and listen to the people you are trying to serve.
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