Do the cons outweigh the pros for people living with wildlife under Zimbabwe’s well-meaning Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE)? In October, Africa in Fact interviewed a handful of residents of the Tsholotsho Ward 1 community, in Matabeleland North, to find out. CAMPFIRE was introduced in the 1980s as a community-centric approach that would enhance local livelihoods through mutually beneficial, collective wildlife management mechanisms. It was perceived as a departure from the exclusionary colonial approach of preservation that focused on protecting these natural resources from any use at all to enabling communities’ partial ownership and control that was expected…
Sikhululekile Mashingaidze
Sikhululekile Mashingaidze
Sikhululekile Mashingaidze entered into the governance field while she was a part-time enumerator for Mass Public Opinion Institute’s diversity of research projects during her undergraduate years. She has worked with Habakkuk Trust, Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR-Kenya), Mercy Corps Zimbabwe and Action Aid International Zimbabwe, respectively. This has, over the years, enriched her grassroots and national-level governance projects’ implementation and management experience. Her academic research interests are in the field of genocide studies, driven by her commitment to deepening her understanding of girls' and women’s experiences and their agency in reconstituting everyday life, and their inclusion in peace-building and transitional justice processes. Socially, she has a keen commitment to supporting girls' education, women’s economic empowerment and the fulfilment of their equitable and sustainable development in Africa’s underserved, often hard-to-reach communities. She enjoys writing and telling the stories of navigating everyday life.
Social exclusion is one of the known drivers of conflict, sometimes leading to violence and wars when certain groups of people are denied access to their society’s resources, institutions, and opportunities. The Just Energy Transition (JET), the proposed transitional pathway from fossil fuels, is a vision for a low-carbon future, perceived in some sectors as an opportunity for communities to benefit from their mining resources, gain access to sustainable energy options while aiding in meeting the targets of the fast approaching window of the Paris Agreement. Communities are key stakeholders in the implementation of energy and climate policies hence community participation…
