CBNRM Net

The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network


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Mission statement

Introduction

This Group presents CBNRM Net's Mission Statement (see also Items Propositions and Goals and means).

Content

CBNRM Net will:

  1. Play a key role in implementing the recommendations in key CBNRM workshops and conferences, including the World Bank May 1998 international CBNRM workshop
  2. Contribute to realize the potential inherent in civil society, participatory approaches, local social organization, culture and traditional knowledge in connection with managing local natural resources
  3. Provide a broad and unified network interface for the use of the global CBNRM Community of Practice (CoP)
  4. Function as a gateway to, and clearinghouse for, all manner of CBNRM knowledge
  5. Be a virtual meeting place for the growing CBNRM Community of Practice (CoP), thus making possible easy exchange of CBNRM knowledge, and through this support the increasing amount of practical work
  6. Produce new CBNRM knowledge, and thus move the CBNRM agenda and CoP forward
  7. Advocate the importance of training and capacity building in CBNRM. Specifically, contribute to determine the role of Internet in training and capacity building in CBNRM, in combination with select CBNRM Net networking tools