Event Description

NEPSUS is is a collaborative research and capacity building project between the Centre for Business and Development Studies at Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Geography, University of Dar es Salaam, funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


Introduction

New and more complex partnerships are emerging to address the sustainability of natural resource use in developing countries. These partnerships variously link donors, governments, community-based organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), business, consultants, certification agencies and other intermediaries. High expectations and many resources have been invested in these initiatives. Yet, we still do not know whether more sophisticated organizational structures, more stakeholders involved, denser social networks and more advanced participatory processes have delivered better sustainability outcomes, and if so, in what sectors and under what circumstances.

To fill this gap, the 5-year research project New Partnerships for Sustainability (NEPSUS) assembled a multidisciplinary team to analyze sustainability partnerships in three key natural resource sectors in Tanzania: forestry, wildlife and coastal resources. This conference provides the opportunity to discuss the key results of this project with relevant stakeholders.

NEPSUS assessed whether co-management with local communities and private and civil society actors, and putatively more participatory processes in the governance of natural resources, result in more equitable and sustainable livelihoods and environmental outcomes. NEPSUS compared these ‘more complex’ partnerships to relatively ‘simpler’, more traditional top-down and centralized management systems and to instances where sustainability partnerships are not in place. The project provides within-sector analyses that are cognizant of historical, location and resource-specific issues, which can be used as input to resource-specific policy and partnership design. It also offers comparison across the three different sectors – in view of identifying possible common experiences and lessons that can be applied to natural resource governance more broadly.

For more information, please see: https://www.nepsus.info

General information:

• Dates: 25-26 March 2021
• Location: APC Hotel, Bunju, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Format: hybrid (in-person and online)

Structure:

• Day 1: full day, academic programme
• Day 2: half day, policy and stakeholder engagement programme

Speakers:

Jevgeniy Bluwstein (University of Fribourg)

Dan Brockington (University of Sheffield)

Matthew Bukhi (University of Dodoma)

Ryan Casey (University of Edinburgh)

Luc Fransen (University of Amsterdam)

Caleb Gallemore (University of Dar es Salaam)

Lasse Folke Henriksen (Copenhagen Business School)

Kathy Homewood (University College London)

Ruth John (Openh University of Tanzania)

Kelvin Kamde (University of Dar es Salaam)

Robert Katikiro (University of Dar es Salaam)

Wilhelm Kiwango (University of Dodoma)

Froukje Kruijssen (KIT Royal Tropical Institute)

Opportuna Kweka (University of Dar es Salaam)

Jens Lund (University Copenhagen)

Rasul Minja (University of Dar es Salaam)

Asubisye Mwamfupe (University of Dar es Salaam)

Faraja Namkesa (University of Dar es Salaam)

Christine Noe (University of Dar es Salaam)

Fiona Nunan (University of Birmingham)

Mette Olwig (Roskilde University)

Stefano Ponte (Copnehagen Business School)

Pilly Silvano (University of Dar es Salaam)

Emmanuel Sulle (ICCAs Consortium)


Preliminary programme
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Thursday 25 March

Session 1 (8:30-9:00)
NEPSUS project overview (introduction, methods, objectives, history of the project)
Presentation: Christine Noe and Stefano Ponte (coordinators of the project)

Session 2 (9:00-10:00)
Forestry
(Coordinator: Mette Olwig)
Presentation (30 min): Pilly Silvano, Mette Olwig, Dan Brockington, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Asubisye Mwamfupe
Discussant remarks (10 min): discussants—Jens Lund and Matthew Bukhi
General discussion (20 min)

Break (15:30-16:00)

Session 3 (10:30-11:30)
Coastal
(Coordinator: Robert Katikiro)
Presentation (30 min): Faraja Namkesa, Robert Katikiro, Opportuna Kweka, Rasul Minja
Discussant remarks (10 min): discussants—Froukje Kruijssen and Fiona Nunan
General discussion (20 min)

Session 4 (11:30-12:30)
Wildlife
(Coordinator: Christine Noe)
Presentation (30 min): Ruth John, Christine Noe, Dan Brockington
Discussant remarks (10 min): discussants—Jevgeniy Bluwstein and Wilhelm Kiwango
General discussion (20 min)

Lunch break (12:30-13:30)

Session 5 – (13:30-14:30)
Social networks and complexity
(Coordinator: Lasse Folke Henriksen)
Presentation (30 min): Lasse Folke Henriksen, Faraja Namkesa, Ruth John, Pilly Silvano
Discussant remarks (10 min): discussant—Luc Fransen
General discussion (20 min)

Session 6 (14:30-15:30)
Environmental outcomes
(Coordinator: Caleb Gallemore)
Presentation (30 min): Kelvin Kamde, Caleb Gallemore, Lasse Folke Henriksen
Discussant remarks (10 min): discussants—Kathy Homewood and Ryan Casey
General discussion (20 min)

Break (15:30-16:00)

Session 7 (16:00-17:00)
Socio-economic outcomes
(Coordinator: Dan Brockington)
Presentation (30 min): Dan Brockington, Caleb Gallemore, Kelvin Kamde, Asubisye Mamfupe
Discussant remarks (10 min): discussant—Emmanuel Sulle
General discussion (20 min)

Session 8 (17:00-17:30)
Conclusions
Presentation: Christine Noe and Stefano Ponte

Drinks and social activities (17:30-19:30)

Dinner (19:30-21:30)

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Friday 25 March

Session 1 (9:00-9:15)
Brief NEPSUS project overview for stakeholders
Presentation: Christine Noe and Stefano Ponte

Session 2 (9:15-10:00)
Discussion of policy brief with stakeholders: Forestry
(Coordinator: Dan Brockington)
Presentation of policy brief (15 min): Dan Brockington, Pilly Silvano, Asubisye Mwampfupe
General discussion (30 min)

Session 3 (10:00-10:45)
Discussion of policy brief with stakeholders: Coastal
(Coordinator: Opportuna Kweka)
Presentation of policy brief (15 min): Opportuna Kweka, Rasul Minja, Faraja Namkesa, Robert Katikiro
General discussion (30 min)

Break (10:45-11:15)

Session 4 (11:15-12:00)
Discussion of policy brief with stakeholders: Wildlife
(Coordinator: Christine Noe)
Presentation of policy brief (15 min): Christine Now, Ruth John
General discussion (30 min)

Session 5 (12:00-13:00)
Discussion of policy brief with stakeholders: Overall lessons and closing remarks
(Coordinator: Stefano Ponte)
Presentation of policy brief (15 min): Christine Noe, Stefano Ponte
General discussion (30 min)
Closing remarks (15 min): Christine Noe, Stefano Ponte

Lunch (13:00-14:00)