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Projects

Programmes

The Trans Frontier Conservation Area (TFCA) initiative is, without doubt, the most significant change in wildlife conservation and rural development planning in recent times. In its inclusiveness of rural communities and its scale, it gives both the rural people and the environment of southern Africa the most likely chance of a successful and sustainable future.

While Sindisa promotes the overall TFCA programme, it has focused on the Greater Limpopo TFCA and specifically on the Zimbabwe section. The area includes the Gonarezhou National Park, the Save Valley Conservancy, the Malilangwe Reserve and all the rural communities adjacent to the protected areas.

Chilojo Cliffs - GonarezhouThe circumstances under which Zimbabwe conservation and rural development has to function are challenging in the extreme. That, however, is the very reason why Sindisa has embarked on an effort to assist with projects to establish new conservation centres. While the conservation centre is the platform for stimulating and coordinating research, conservation, education, training and rural development projects, it is the projects themselves that are the road to the future. Support for these projects, some of which are listed below, comes in many forms from funds to materials to expertise. The Sindisa “Rapid Response Fund” is just one such contribution.

Sindisa actively sources financial, material and intellectual support for these projects. In doing so it accepts the responsibility of ensuring that the resources which pass through its hands are applied to projects efficiently and effectively and are managed with transparency and accountability.