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DeMotts, Rachel. "Participating in Conservation? Governing on the Ground in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69558_index.html>

DeMotts, R. , 2005-03-05 "Participating in Conservation? Governing on the Ground in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p69558_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: How do local communities participate in conservation and development projects? New configurations of governance in Africa - from decentralization to increased roles for civil society and public-private partnerships - reflect changes in how local people are able to access the process of governing. An example of this is found in conservation and development projects that may have major impacts on the lives and livelihoods of people in many rural parts of Africa. Involvement at the local level is touted as crucial to the success of such projects, but the constellations of political interests that get involved often means that those most affected are least able to impact outcomes. This paper will examine the process of creating local participation structures for community input into the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a massive new conservation area that will include land from South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. By comparing the ways in which governments, donors, and NGOs have dealt with communities in South Africa versus how they have done it in Mozambique, the paper will illustrate some of the difficulties of engendering meaningful local participation in large-scale conservation and development projects. It will argue that not only are local participation structures often unable to foster democratic participation through which local people can actually alter the course of a given project, but that the ways in which these structures are set up actually reifies existing leadership systems and power relations while ensuring that many local voices will be excluded from dialogueand debate. Moreover, the lack of information given to local people about how they might be affected by the GLTP project has not only created partnerships, but instead brought about conflicts in the new park that endanger local livelihoods as well as the GLTP itself.

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